Wooohooo!!!!!!!
Here I go again..
I've been postponing to write on this blog well
let's say due to my hectic schedule (this past
holiday season has possibly been the busiest I have encountered :) ) and
because I badly want to see how I reach the end of this month before I write
like everything on this blog..
At first I'm thinking of writing December
Bliss but after some occurrence, I believe that this month has been
more than a bliss (serene joy), but it's for me like a cloud nine (a
state of elation or great happiness / a state of extreme happiness).
What makes me in extreme happiness??
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| CMUN 2-4 December 2011 |
Besides, If I have to write like all God's
goodness to me this month it will take 3 to 5 pages and I will get u just tired
on scrolling. So let me make it short yet compact.
God has sent angels to cheer me up those days. He
sent kak Ella to give me 11 coolest outfits a woman would desire this season.
He helped me out during the oral test in Subject & Characters in Drama
when somehow Mrs. Ulaen acted very generous and nodding like she agreed with
all the thing I'm saying.. Phew! He also helped me coaching debater from SMA
St.Nikolaus Lokon (such an experience :D). I even got a job to be the MC of
Prof.Lalamentik 'after service' (purnabakti) party. and it all went just well..
Umm.. I also thank God for the Youth GKMI Christmas Celebration.. as the
secretary of the committee, I have to testify how great God has been for us. And
the best part of it is when we come to visit and feed people with mental
disorder at RSJ Ratumbuysang. I have no fear at all unlike some of my kakak2
rohani (no offense,sis :P). The facts are I even give my hands to them, take a
picture with them and have an extremely hilarious conversation. I couldn’t
imagine how I could be so brave with those people, who some are rated as ‘dangerous’
and were jailed. #God’sannointing
Here comes the reason why I'm postponing to write
on this blog.. #visainterview (the very part I’m
exciting to write about)
I feel like it's incomplete to write this post
without knowing what will be the outcome of my visa interview on 27/12. Well,
we just had a bad news on 19-20 dec that our friends @davemailoor @yeshq and
@ndawanda's visa just been rejected and it's just shocking. They said the only
problem is that they're not convinced with our funding whether we already have
the money with us or not. It drives the rest of us worrying and hesitating
whether we have to appear in the interview or not because we already by the
ticket to Surabaya.. Unfortunately, when we intended to cancel our appointment
with ConGen. We’re unable to do it at that very time (3 days before interview).
That's why we hastily ask Pemkab Talaud to make us a letter of sponsorship thru
Ein's help. We also tried to reach Rector to help us make a letter of
sponsorship regarding the fund but he's not willing to (lesson: Do not lean on
man! - Jeremiah 17:5) We then make a letter from our parents stating that they
will be responsible with the whole trip and willing to pay for it with the
attachment of their bank account. And with all that we've got; the complete
documents and the plus plus things above, the four of us (Pam, Michelle, Eyn,
and me) prayerfully fly to Surabaya.
The thing that I don't know is up until
the day we fly to Sby, apparently Michelle and Pam still in the state of
uncertainty and hesitation whether they will go for the interview or not as a
result of their acquaintance's experience, advice and also the doubt within
themselves. Nevertheless, they bring all the docs with them. Conversely, I
think I’m the one who has faith on this interview cause God gave the impression
in my heart and strengthen me with His words day in day out in my worship time to
just go..“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and
courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will
be with you wherever you. Joshua 1:9”
Voila.. (26/12) We’re in Surabaya already. New
problems come. Eynstein and Pamela didn’t bring their parents’ bank account,
Eyn hasn’t even printed his DS-160 confirmation page, and he and Michelle didn’t
bring their photograph along with them. Crap!! If you ask me whether I’m mad or
disappoint with them, my answer is NO! I just know that there will be a heavenly
way out J.
Here’s the chronology, Michelle somehow could reach tante Suzanna (her aunt who
lived with her in Brisbane) who treat us extraordinary lunch in her resto *Delisia
Resto* and I think I have to mention that I just ate the most delicious
Spaghetti Carbonara I’ve ever tasted (з´⌣`ε), provides us a wi-fi and
printer to print Eyn’s remaining docs, lends us car for going to photo studio
plus polo shirt for Michelle and taking us to Tunjungan Plaza thereafter. God
is amazing, huh?!
It’s D+1 after Christmas but our minds were
occupied with this visa thing so much.. After we synchronizing our answers
while siphoning coffee and enjoying delly espresso brownies at Starbucks, we
pray to God for the best to happen in the next day. I even share w/ Michelle
the devotional book my Dad suddenly gave me and have been my reason to trust
God this time. We read together John 15:16 and pray again. (Lesson: If you
pray, means that you give the problem to God, so DO NOT worry anymore! Worry means
you didn’t believe God could answer your prayer)
Shortly, (27/12) the judgment day come upon us..
we wake up early for the interview.. haven’t even get our brekkie but our
hearts are at peace. We come with total submission to God knowing we cannot do
anything without Him. As the result, our
visa were approved (except Eyn’s). That day was magical!! That
was the best Christmas gift I’ve ever had. Thank Christ Jesus for everything :’)
Have a dazzling holiday! :D
