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EURO TRIP PART IV: AMSTERDAM

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March 10 th 2018 Well, this is my last weekend on Europe. I’m a little bit confused to choose either going to Berlin or Amsterdam. I mean like both of them cost the same amount of time to go there. I have two considerations to choose a destination: to have at least a friend there and the place must be beautiful or well known. Life is gonna be easier if you have someone at your destination. They can guide you to good places, and maybe they can share you their room, even food! Unfortunately, my friend in Berlin is in Indonesia. So I have to choose Amsterdam as my final destination. bicycle parking This time, I’m staying at GPI until late intentionally, because my Flixbus will depart on 2 AM. We stop at several places. The first one, I don’t remember the name. The second one is Den Haag. It’s funny to pronounce the name, like “Denachh” (fun fact: in Dutch, you pronounce g as ch). The last before Amsterdam is Rotterdam. Then, I arrived at Sloterdijk Station on 12 ...

EURO TRIP PART III: PARIS

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Weekends in Europe Part II: Paris Intro Paris is the capital of Republic of France. It is also the fashion city in international scale. And furthermore, the city holds several unique buildings like museums and monuments. I also have friend there and I thought he might provides place to sleep. And of course before I went to Germany, I asked suggestion from Mr. Sule where I should go in the weekends and he mentioned Paris. However he also mentioned that there are a lot of thieves in Paris. Consequently, I was not sure with my plan. But hell no, I visited Paris anyway. So I ordered my Flixbus, again on the Friday. I actually ordered it on Monday but it seems they had error on the apps because I couldn’t pay the reservations with my sister’s credit cards. All of them were not working although on the previous journey, I hadn’t problem with the payment. But later, my sister created a Flixbus account and she paid the reservation... what’s wrong with my account??? Main Part ...

EURO TRIP PART II : MUNICH

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Weekends in Europe part I : Munich Intro In weekdays, I have to work on my thesis. But in weekends, I have to enjoy my life because my life isn’t not only about my thesis. Since I have been only one week here, I decided not to go outside Germany first because I want to know more about its cities. At first, I want to go to Berlin, which is the most historical world war II city in Germany. However, I don’t realize that I stay on the south-western part of Germany, while Berlin is more like in the North-eastern part, which will take 14h of bus ride to go there. So I decide to go to Munich instead of Berlin Munich/Muenchen is a capital city of Bavaria/Bayern state. Honestly, I’d like to write them in their German term, Muenchen and Bayern. But since finding U umlaut in Libreoffice is time consuming, and using ue is weird, yea just use Munich. First Attempt February 24th 2018 I booked Flixbus from Karlsruhe hbf to Munich ZOB for 3 AM departure in Saturday. But, I was...

EURO TRIP PART I : THE DEPARTURE AND ARRIVAL

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introduction This is the best thing that happens to me. Going to Germany to finished my thesis  and having my lecturer, Mr. Sule paid for both my accommodation and my transport is unbelievable. This is happened because I helped a German guy before to work on his thesis. If you haven’t read that, visit this link :  http://jaketoren123.blogspot.com/2017/10/adventure-to-collect-sinabungs-eruption.html . This is started when Mr.Sule announced that he want to work on new thesis topic, about volcanic modeling. And sure he need student to work on that. It was a week that he broadcasted over and over again because everyone seemed has their own topic, including me. I was going to take magnetic susceptibility as my thesis topic. Until the last day, no one took Mr. Sule’s topic. And then Rybob convinced me to take this topic, he ensured me that if I good, I will go to Germany. And it happens now! February 15 th 2018         ...