It's been a long time since my last post on this blog. This time I'll try to write my story in English, cuz this story happened in Australia. I'll try my best to write it. Maybe I'll make some mistakes, but at least I want to try..
This story happened on the 9th July 2016. We, all Indonesian Communities in New South Wales, got an invitation from 'Bapak Konjen' to come to his house and celebrate 'Idul Fitri' together on this day. Therefore, as Indonesian students in Newcastle, my friends and I wanted to come. We try to gather as many students as we can, but only 3 people can go to Sydney, me, Kak Ilyas and his wife, Kak Vera.
The day before going to Sydney, we already planned our trip. Depart at 7, take the train at 7.33 and arrive at 'Wisma Indonesia' around 11 o'clock. However, nothing goes as planned..
Let's start from early morning. Around 6.30, I already text Kak Vera to ask what time they will pick me up and she said they will depart at 7 from their house. So all I need to do is just waiting for them. While waiting, I searched in google how long it takes to go from their house to mine and from my house to the train station. All of them took around 20 minutes. So I thought everything is okay.
But then, everything started to go wrong. It's almost 7.20 when they arrived at my house. Then we went to the train station. When we parked the car, we can see the train to Sydney already there. So we run, cuz we don't want to miss the train. However, before we arrived at the platform, they gave the signal to the train to leave. At the moment we reached the platform, the door was closing and the train was leaving the station. 😣😣😣 We have no choice. We have to wait for 1 hour 8 minutes for the next train. And it's just the beginning..
After we arrived in Sydney Central Station, we have to take another train and a ferry to reach 'Wisma Indonesia' where the open house was held. When we arrived, we went to the toilet first. Therefore, we missed the earliest connecting train to Circular Quey and went there with the next train. However, we still missed the ferry to Rose Bay. It departed from the wharf as we walked through the wharf opal gate, so we have to wait for the next ferry which means another 30 minutes waiting.
After a few minutes waiting, there were another ferry in the same wharf excactly at the same spot. Because we didn't want to miss another ferry, we got in. As the ferry departed, we realized that we took the wrong ferry. We supposed to take a ferry to Rose Bay which goes to the east, but yet we took the one which headed to the west. So we decided to stop at the next wharf and wait for the next ferry back to Circular Quey.
On the next wharf, Balmain Wharf, we check for the ferry and it will arrived around 30 minutes. Oh, another 30 minutes wait.. 😣😣😣😣 While waiting, Kak Ilyas was playing games in his phone, Kak Vera was sitting and playing with her phone, but me, I cannot stand still. I walked around the wharf, read almost everything there, took some pictures, and even asked Kak Vera to take some pictures of me. Because almost nobody at the wharf but us, I can take some pictures without any photo boomber disturbing my photo.. 😄😄😄
Few minutes before the ferry came, people start coming and I couldn't take pictures anymore. So I just sat on the bench and talked to Kak Vera. Time goes on and the ferry came. Finally, we can go back to Circular Quey and go to the right direction cuz we all hungry already. When arrived we still have to went out the wharf and got in another one, cuz we arrived in wharf 5 but the one goes to Rose Bay was in wharf 4.
Finally, we can take the right ferry to Rose Bay. Ferry at 13.05, one and a half hour from what we planned. Now, we really checked the ferry. We want to go to 'Wisma Indonesia' NOW!! We are hungry!!! And finally we arrived at 13.30, two and a half hour late from what we expected. I still remember how we were walking on the Kent Road, reading every house number, and wondering how far is number 25.
It took us around 6 hours 30 minutes to reach 'Wisma Indonesia' from our houses. We departed around 7 o'clock in the morning and arrived at 13.30 in the afternoon. A very long time compared to what we planned, 4 hours. But at least it was a memorable moment for us. Eventhough we spent the same amount of money for the trip, we can go to Balmain Wharf that we never knew before.
The only thing I still don't understand. Why these things always happen when we go just three of us. Nothing like these ever happen when we go with others. I hope we will never experience these kinds of thing again.. 😂😂😂😂😂
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