March 21st 2015
Up til two weeks ago, today is the day I should arrive in Melbourne. On May 20th, I was scheduled to take Qantas flight from Jakarta to Sydney at precisely 8pm, and have a connecting flight from Sydney-Melbourne on the next morning. Which is today.
But on the night of 6th of May, everything suddenly changed. After spending my morning and afternoon updating news to ex-bosses and friends and letting them know that in two weeks I will go to Melbourne, fate steered me to another direction.
In ten minutes after I wrap up a discussion session with a student who will have his thesis defense in the upcoming week, I had an accident. At 7.30pm I got a call from my mother and she told me that she already parked in the lecturer parking spot. So I end the discussion with my student and rushed to the parking lot. Maybe it was dark, maybe it's the lack of light, maybe I was distracted with my message on my cellphone, maybe there's a hole in the street, maybe I have too many things in my hand, maybe it was bad luck, ...or maybe it was destined to be....that I somehow tripped when I want to turn right. And I fell on my knees.
I remember a sudden pain on my left foot. The pain was so severe that I can not lift myself to stand. So there was a man who came to help when he realized that I was still on my knees a couple of minutes after I fell. The man (later I know he work at the photocopy shop) grab me a stool so I can use it to help me lift my body. I also remember one of my students from last semester came rushing to help me. At that time I only want to go as fast as I can to my car that was only 5 meters away from me and just go home.
In short, that night I went to the ER and had an X-ray which showed I had a metatarsal fracture. The GE gave me painkiller shot, some more to take home and since she is not a specialist, she suggested to see the Orthopedic tomorrow. At that time, she tried to calm me down (I had tears coming down when I heard about the fracture news) by saying it's a minor thing and I probably still can go to Australia in two weeks time. But only until the next day when I went to the Orthopedic I found out that it was impossible. When the Orthopedic looked at my X-Ray, he just said "Oh Miss, this is a fracture. Do you want to have a pen on it, or a cast?" And at that very moment, I had tears again. Not because of the pain (which is yes painful...a lot!!) but for the fact that I can not go to Australia. At least not in this semester.
Now I'm back to present time. Here I am, with a cast on my left foot. Two weeks had passed with me spending most of my times on my bed. And now everything just hit me again. Knowing that today I should have been in Melbourne. Ready to start a new challenge. A new chapter in life. But I realized that God has other plans for me. Perhaps I still need to do several things before I start a new chapter in life. Perhaps there are still unfinished business that need to be completed. Hopefully, more time for me in finishing the chapter in Jakarta will ease me in facing the new challenges in the new chapter next year. In Melbourne.
So, I think it is the perfect time to start a new blog. I will try to write things that I experienced in preparing myself towards the next chapter of my life next year. So, let's begin. :)
Up til two weeks ago, today is the day I should arrive in Melbourne. On May 20th, I was scheduled to take Qantas flight from Jakarta to Sydney at precisely 8pm, and have a connecting flight from Sydney-Melbourne on the next morning. Which is today.
But on the night of 6th of May, everything suddenly changed. After spending my morning and afternoon updating news to ex-bosses and friends and letting them know that in two weeks I will go to Melbourne, fate steered me to another direction.
In ten minutes after I wrap up a discussion session with a student who will have his thesis defense in the upcoming week, I had an accident. At 7.30pm I got a call from my mother and she told me that she already parked in the lecturer parking spot. So I end the discussion with my student and rushed to the parking lot. Maybe it was dark, maybe it's the lack of light, maybe I was distracted with my message on my cellphone, maybe there's a hole in the street, maybe I have too many things in my hand, maybe it was bad luck, ...or maybe it was destined to be....that I somehow tripped when I want to turn right. And I fell on my knees.
I remember a sudden pain on my left foot. The pain was so severe that I can not lift myself to stand. So there was a man who came to help when he realized that I was still on my knees a couple of minutes after I fell. The man (later I know he work at the photocopy shop) grab me a stool so I can use it to help me lift my body. I also remember one of my students from last semester came rushing to help me. At that time I only want to go as fast as I can to my car that was only 5 meters away from me and just go home.
In short, that night I went to the ER and had an X-ray which showed I had a metatarsal fracture. The GE gave me painkiller shot, some more to take home and since she is not a specialist, she suggested to see the Orthopedic tomorrow. At that time, she tried to calm me down (I had tears coming down when I heard about the fracture news) by saying it's a minor thing and I probably still can go to Australia in two weeks time. But only until the next day when I went to the Orthopedic I found out that it was impossible. When the Orthopedic looked at my X-Ray, he just said "Oh Miss, this is a fracture. Do you want to have a pen on it, or a cast?" And at that very moment, I had tears again. Not because of the pain (which is yes painful...a lot!!) but for the fact that I can not go to Australia. At least not in this semester.
Now I'm back to present time. Here I am, with a cast on my left foot. Two weeks had passed with me spending most of my times on my bed. And now everything just hit me again. Knowing that today I should have been in Melbourne. Ready to start a new challenge. A new chapter in life. But I realized that God has other plans for me. Perhaps I still need to do several things before I start a new chapter in life. Perhaps there are still unfinished business that need to be completed. Hopefully, more time for me in finishing the chapter in Jakarta will ease me in facing the new challenges in the new chapter next year. In Melbourne.
So, I think it is the perfect time to start a new blog. I will try to write things that I experienced in preparing myself towards the next chapter of my life next year. So, let's begin. :)
