Post examination catch-up

Hey everyone, I'm back on blogger, after month after tedious month of exams like the UAS (school exams), UAN (national exams) and SNMPTN Tertulis (the exam which gets you into national universities). Right now, I have been doing nothing at home but lie around, go over to a friend's house, and going out cycling in the afternoon waiting for maghrib, as you may know, it's Ramadhan! (it's when muslims fast for a month)

As for the results, I have to say the UAS were somewhat satisfactory and were above my expectations, not going to share the numbers or anything, but yea it got me graduating from high school. The UAN results? Abit disappointing, but having thought the school only had two weeks of preparation unlike other schools who get the whole year, I got one question wrong on the english paper, which'll leave a bad mark everytime I look back, but at least it also got me out of highschool.

I had to take the SNMPTN Tertulis all the way in Purwokerto, where most of my relatives live (that's in central Java by the way), because where you had to take the test depends on which universities you had for the two choices you were given, and I had chosen Gadjah Mada University (UGM) which is considered as a region II area, and Purwokerto is a region II area. I mentioned in a post on this blog that I wanted to go to Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB). Well, I bailed out because I thought I was never going to survive, or let alone get into the place, and decided to go for something abit realistic.

And guess what?

Yeaaaaaaaa!

Couldn't believe it at first, the night the results were posted online I couldn't help but run and hop around the house, after all the failures and disappointments in these recent years, I just didn't know what to say, but I guess God really is fair.

So I went to Yogyakarta on the 3rd of July by car with my mom, sisters and brother, stopping by in Purwokerto to drop off my sisters and brother at my grandma's house, so they don't have to continue the journey to Yogyakarta. In Purwokerto, I was really glad to see my relatives being happy for me and all, and all I could do was smile and nod.

My mom and I got to Jogja on the 5th, the roads were freshly paved, too bad I was too occupied in driving to take pictures. I'll get you some after Ramadhan. Having gotten to Yogyakarta, I headed straight to the UGM administration office to hand in some documents. While waiting, I talked to people sitting next to me in the waiting room, and boy these people were from all over the nation. Some even came all the way from Sumatra, and Sulawesi, even from places I've never heard before. But it feels really good to meet new faces and make new friends here.

I guess that's all I have to share right now, but I'll be updating the blog quite frequently from now on as I have nothing to do until September when my university life starts.