Lately I was so busy with the things I need to do in order to enroll in time for a master course in Zurich University. I hardly have time to blog. But right when I found this page -I think I found it accidently after googling for so many things I now can’t remember what- I know I should give it a try, with a good luck I might get the chance to meet the Hollanders in their own country -I saw couple of them already back there in my hometown, Maluku-
We all know that what we learn abroad is something much better -as in quality or simply selling point- than what we get at home. At least that is what I think, the reason of many Indonesians who want to continue their study or -as I type this now they- are studying abroad. An extra thing when one has the chance to study abroad is great networking. That is what really matters, a great networking. We get to know different people with different cultures and behaviors, adjust ourselves to reach them in our networks. I don’t see networking right now as something I need to have, to take it for granted, expand my working possibilities but rather as a friendship, in which I get to know more persons I can share experiences with.
I had the chance to meet some Australian students who were in Yogyakarta learning Bahasa Indonesia, our cultures and the rest, last year. It was such a wonderful experience for me, to know them and understand the way they think about particular things in this life. It was a refreshing moment that made me think differently about my life and what I want to do in the future. They’re much younger than me but thinking way ahead of me. Perhaps it was just me, slow, but at the end I learnt to push my self further with their helps. I would really like to have the chance to be like them, a catalyst for others, make others think ahead about what they want to do with their lifes in the present and in the future. But then again, perhaps it is me who is still rather slow and in need of another catalyst once I meet the Hollanders. Well, in any case, to study in Holland would be a really good start for me. This is my ticket to a global community.
So, everything is basically just about socializing with the global community? Of course not! To study in Holland is the chance to get a first rate educational in a country where Desiderius Erasmus, Vincent Van Gogh and Ruud Gullit once studied in. That must be something to have those geniuses as one’s predecessor.