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tesadevina on October 31st, 2006
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I had a load of homework this morning, especially when tomorrow night I must submit a paper for ‘the Wednesday Night class’. I went to the library to print out some things and the wierdest thing happened. A fairy stopped by to say hello. I was like… what the…?
It turned out to be my friend Lynn. It was about 9 am in the morning and she was already dressed up in a fairy costume! I was like… why are you already dressed up? and she gave me this ’so what? look’ take a look!
I was so tired but I was in no mood at all to get into a costume. Not that I was planning on doing so anyway. So I just bought 3 bags of Hershey’s chocolate on the way home. They were a special autumn edition in 4 different leaf pattern fall colored wrapping and 4 different nuts. Hmmm…
Then I went over to the Family Resource Center to pick up the orange sign that says “TRICK OR TREAT HERE!” Well, what do you know, the FRC were full of kids already! Take a look!
I also came across 3 little witches! Ooohhh I was terrified…
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tesadevina on October 29th, 2006
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Daylight Saving Time has ended, adjust your clocks!
As of today, I’m not 12 hours away form home, but 13. From now on through this winter season, Stillwater and Yogyakarta (Indonesian Central Time) will be 13 hours different.
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tesadevina on October 24th, 2006
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Finally, the month of Ramadhan has come to an end. I have survived my first Ramadhan away from my family, friends, and suasana Jogja… (Lagu Katon Bagaskara).
For those celebrating today,
I wish you all a joyous and wonderful Eid!
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tesadevina on October 23rd, 2006
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1st Day of Shawwal
Selamat Hari Lebaran!!! Mohon Maaf Lahir dan Batin…
Kepada semua yang merasa pernah ku sakiti, sengaja maupun tidak sengaja, aku minta maaf sebesar-besarnya ya. Kula nyuwun ngapura. Mari kita sambung lagi tali silaturahmi.
Sungkem kagem mama papa…
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tesadevina on October 21st, 2006
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While all the wall decorations last night have gone to the recycling center (I hope), the whole community prepared for this morning’s Homecoming Parade. We were expected at our group’s location… if I were able to find it on the map… at exactly 7 am because the Parade will start at 9 am. That’s reasonable. That’s enough time to get everyone at the spot and distribute the flags. Unfortunately, the only fact I have seemed to ignore was that we were group #144 which means we will start walking when the first 113 groups have marched first! So, we didn’t start parading untill about 11 am. So, here’s what we did on our spare time… take pictures! Lot’s of it!
Awww weren’t we so colorful?! It was a quick parade, incomparable to the wait.I enjoyed the feeling of having so many people out on the streets watching us march with our international flags. I pictured myself 10 years ago. Oh was I reminiscing my days in the flag corps and marching band…
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tesadevina on October 20th, 2006
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They say it’s a tradition and even America’s Greatest Homecoming. The Walk Around is an activity where the Stillwater community literally walk around the neighborhood to sight see structures that portray ‘cowboy football’ spirit. These structures range from a small 1 m cube dice into a 3 x 10 wall. If you look closer, these colorful decorations are actually made out of colorful tissue paper wrapped individually to fit into small gaps of metal mesh.
Wud’ja like ta walk around thru ma pictures?
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tesadevina on October 14th, 2006
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Ramadhan Day 22
JAPANESE NIGHT!
A Cappella - “Love, Love, Love” Sung by Ken Hirai (he’s so cute!)
When I entered the Concert Hall, the Japanese students dressed in kimono painted my name in Japanese Kanji characters. Along the entrance, many more Japanese students greeted us with their smiles and their oh so bright and colorful kimonos (oh I want ooone!).
Ok, now here’s why I’d say this J-Night was spectacular…
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tesadevina on October 14th, 2006
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Ramadhan Day 22
SEPARATING RECYCLED MATERIALS AT RECYCLING SITE
It puzzled me, how recycling sites need to be adopted. Doesn’t the city take care of the dumping? Apparetly not. Not all cities have the money or infrastructure to manage their waste. Even if they do have recycling sites, they are not always well maintained. Some people dump their recycling waste unseparated.
It amazed me how different people of the community actually recycle! Starting from children, parents, young adults, men wearing cowboy hats, old men, and college students that you couldn’t have suspected cared about the environment! They all come down to the site even if only to trow two bags of used aluminium cans and beer bottles!
If we have this much awareness, why not have more recycling bins all over campus and the university appartments? I can assure you there would be more vehicle-less people recycling, if they didn’t have to come all the way to the lake to dispose them every week.
LABELLING STORM DRAINS
Is it necessary? Well, the city of Stillwater thinks so. We were given labels to glue on just the top of the storm drains to warn the community not to dump toxic waste into the drains. Dumping toxic waste into storm drains may cause poisoning of fish who live in the streams that these drains lead to and eventually poison the people who will ultimately eat these contaminated fish.
We hope this effort will bare fruitful results 
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tesadevina on October 13th, 2006
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Ramadhan Day 21
The opening dance…
I really hoped Bu Sutiah would be proud of me if she saw me. I remembered the days we still practiced together. Now I must remember the moves myself. It was a challenge.
This was a day I’ve longed for… to promote Indonesia to young children. It was an amazing experience, to see their jaws drop as I explained Indonesia had more than 17,000 islands; to observe their eyes glow as they saw me in my dance costume, to feel their eagerness to touch my head-hair decoration; to sense their excitement when they viewed more pictures of Indonesian landscapes. Children are such fascinations to me.
Introducing my country is an honor…
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tesadevina on October 11th, 2006
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Today, I’ve finally bought that wool coat that was advertised on the announcement board of the Student Union (a.k.a gelanggang mahasiswa) a few days back. Student price. Wah, jangan dikonversikan ke Rupiah. Nanti pusing, malah nggak jadi beli :D A real good deal for a wool coat I’d say!
How close does it resemble the one Jeon Ji-Hyun is wearing? 
The lower half is exactly the same style! Well, I have not worn it yet.
Wait till the snow comes, then you can compare!
