Walking in the Rain

I felt stranger when I used a set of raincoat and walked in the rain from my boarding house to college.

Is it sound peculiar?

Hahaha…

Indeed. This afternoon felt different for me. I’m like one of seven sleepers who had just woke up from my so-long-sleeping. Yeah, because, more than 12 hours I spent in my boarding house without going out. I wake up so late this morning. Then, washed my laundries and prepare my noodle-breakfast. Oh, I found no rice in the jar. Damnit!

But, I have to thanks to God due to His blessing for me. I’m still alive! I’m still breathing. I’m still able to hear, see, and taste. It’s really enough, isn’it?

Well, I think this intro is too long to tell.

I want to jump to the main topic as the title of this blog. Walkpacking-point-of-view.

Some messages came into inbox. It’s from my college friend, Hariyono. He told me my METAN mark. Alhamdulillah, I got “B”. I was really happy for that. It is not so bad, I think. Only Rani in my class who got “A”. Jamal, the smartest student I so-far-known was just got “AB”. Oh, you know what? METAN is the most difficult subject I faced in this odd semester.

Then we talked about SUSI application forms. Yeah, surely I had completed all of requirements needed. Though, I still was waiting for recommendation letter from my Dean, Mr. I Basis Susilo, but I thought I had to send the application today. I don’t want to wait till tomorrow. Because, I felt bored to go to college everyday in this holidays time.

“I will go to college at 3 p.m.” I said to Hariyono.

“Why?” He asked.

“I don’t want to be captivated by free-internet-access in college that made me has to be sitting down for long hours. I also am reading my books!”

After praying ashar, I fulfilled my promise to come to the college. I saw the sky was so cloudy. “Well, it is gonna be heavy rain!” I said to myself. “But, hey! I have to go to college. I need free-internet-access. I want to check some of my accounts. And, the most pivotal thing is sending my application form!” Hahaha…

I knew that my laugh is unreasonable. Several seconds later, I heard the “tik-tik-tik” of rain’s sounds at the roof of my boarding house. I immediately looked for an umbrella, but I didn’t. “Yes, I have to go!” I yelled to myself.

So, I took raincoat that hung up in the wall.

I wore it and felt it was fit for my skinny body.

And I started to walk in the heavy rain.

Some children who were playing in path way-front of their houses, looked at me with peculiar sight.

When I passed them, I know one of them was following my steps. I did not want to turned my body back. Yeah, I thought that child was just do it for fun. Meanwhile, when I passed in front of some adults I found in the way, I did not want to see them. Yeah, I could felt the strange-sight-seeing from them. So, I did not need to look at them back. I straight to walk and walk in the rain with my blue and gray raincoat and also my blue-plastic sandals. Hehehe… They were totally match!

I walked and walked while enjoying the rain. It was not heavy anymore. So, I don’t need to be trapped in a very wet condition. Some drops of the rain spotted to my face. I enjoyed its freshnes.

Truly, when people looked at me, I felt I wore a miss-costume. I also felt not comfortable, actually. Furthermore, my side-bag seemed swollen in my right side of my skinny body. Oh… really, I did not ready to be famous! Hahaha…

But, I made myself tougher and tougher. And when I saw some men and women wore such-kind-of same raincoat, I felt more OK. Yeah, I have twins! Hahaha…

15 minutes then, I arrived at my college.

But, the problem relate to my confidence was not finished yet.

So, I immediately walked to behind of Building D of FISIP and took off my raincoat and put it into the red plastic bag I have prepared from boarding house.

Yes, finally my problem is finish!

Now, I can breathe comfortably!

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