Officially, A Brightonian!

SO, I've been here for 3 days! A little bit jet-lag, still. I woke up at 3am - 4am, then went back to sleep. I got really sleepy on 8pm-9pm. I am sleepy now actually.

Some of the highlights:

#1 day - Saturday 13 Sept 2015

Immigration OFFICER

SURPRISINGLY GOOD: He went to Sussex uni for summer school. End of story. We chatted like a friend. He gave the stamp right away with A BIG SMILE and nice greetings, "Well YOUNG LADY (I felt like I was on one of the BBC's classic movie when I heard someone called me like that, seriously), I guess I'll just get you going then" Stamped here stamped there DONE :)
I was legally walking in to the GREAT BRITAIN. God is SO good. :)

LUGGAGE DRAGGING
We could manage to still be alive after dragging our luggages from north terminal to south terminal at London Gatwick by a free train shuttle. The shuttle was sooooo nice tho. It was like one at the SF City. We then hopped on to the train that would take us to the Brighton Station. At this point, we didn't drag the luggages, but we had to literally lift them up by hand due to the unconnected shelter with the train's floor. LOL. IT WAS REALLY CRAZY FUN. Prilli and me had to help each other like we were in the middle of triathlon or something. We even DID count Satu, Dua, Tiga for every phase SO FUNNY. Then we had to drag our luggage to the parking lot where the minibus parked. THE STRONG OFFICERS helped us to lift the bags into the minibus, which was SO HELPFUL. Thanks, mates ;). AND Finally, dragging the bags from the Park Village Bus Stop, to my flat on the 3rd floor. A residential advisors helped us, by the way the advisor was a girl, so yeah. She joined our triathlon team. She was so nice and she made our day better.

SPIDER TRAGEDY
We settled down a little bit. Unpacked (not wholly of course). Then we got ready to take a refreshing shower, when Prili found out a TARANTULA laid on the bath tub. LOL. At least, it was what she said to me, a tarantula. Later, we realized IT WAS NOT one. It was a pretty healthy spider. We got confused and panic and hysteric, of course. We managed to disturb the CAMPUS' SECURITY by phone and got response like: "Wha' di' ya' sai' a SPIDA'?" (please read with Harry Potter's accent!). And he got us connected to the 24-hours housing reception, whose initial response was " Can you please find someone who IS NOT afraid of SPIDER there and help you please, Ma'am?" She said it several times and gave up. Finally, she sent us a guy that will kill the spider. LOL. The guy came and hold that spider with a tissue, and left. End of story.

CAMPUS' FIRST GLANCE
So NICE :) It was like I lived in a Disney Movie. AGH, don't know how to explain this, BUT SUSSEX UNI IS SO PRETTY. It's situated on a NATIONAL PARK OF ENGLAND. So, find the suitable words by your self. Or else, just google it. ;)

EAST SLOPE BAR
Finally I got in touch with the most famous bar on campus. I ordered a delicous beef burger with bbq sauce and fries. It was GOOD. We also visited the Co-op and bought some essentials like: toilet paper, bread, jam, eggs, tortillas, etc. So all was good.



#2 Sunday, 13 Sept 2015

CHURCHING

Nothing happened not for a reason. We caught the bus late, and ended up joining service at St. Peter's Church Brighton. We got a REALLY powerful message of being the LIGHT BEARER. How familiar right? Yeah, yet I kinda have forgotten what I was called to and what my life's best motto was. SO SAD. And the message really got into me. AND I believe if He sent me to this very city, the so called BRIGHT CITY, He must have a SPECIFIC purpose for me. Tya and I signed up also for the media team ministry at the church. We don't know yet what will be coming ahead :) But I do believe something great is coming on the way :)

EXPLORING THE CITY
SO, this was really FUN. We had a buffet lunch at Indian Restaurant. I finally could get in touch with RICE again. The curry was so delicious. And I loved it. Finally, five of us met up, added by Juli the Rushlakes ladies' roommate. We walked down the streets of the FAMOUS BRIGHTON. I would pinch myself thousand of times to make me realize I AM NOT DREAMING. IT WAS SO SURREAL! SO GOOD. OH GOOD GOD THANK YOU!! Pics will be coming soon. Maybe :p


#3 Monday, 14 Sept 15
SO the real week day has already arrived :)
It means, some serious stuffs need to be done. Bank letter picking, BRP picking, Bank online appointment, etc etc.

BUT WAIT. No day will pass without a tragedy in Hestin's life, right? YES.
SO this was the very first day I woke up with a foggy rain on the window. IT STILL WAS SO PRETTAAYYY. I took a pic of my window view constantly and will share it later if I got the mood :p

And it was also a sign of tears, I guess? :/

BRP TRAGEDY

I had some issues on queueing (God bless that girl who stared at me like I was a villain where I was just mistakenly standing on the wrong end of line) AND lost my BRP card right after I PICKED IT. KEZIA? AGAIN? Yes.
I almost cried. I did shed a tears a bit tho. And prayed a lot. So the officer scanned my VISA and Passport as part of the regulation, bla bla bla, so on so on, all good all good, until She handed me that historical brownie envelope that covered my precious BRP card, the thing that will make me able to continue my life in the UK or else got deported as being illegal immigrant. I took the envelope, said thanks and left. I went down the stairs to the ground floor, was freakingly nervous all day (duno why, maybe freshers syndrome) opened up the envelope AND FOUND NOTHING ON IT except one piece of paper. I rushed back upstairs, and made a little noise. I kept coming back 3 times, had a pretty bad quarrel and watery-eye with the officers, when I finally decided to weakly walk to the bus stop and buy the beddings at primark. WHEN THE EMAIL ARRIVED: I am pleased to inform you that your BRP has finally found (at the helpdesk (still doubt it tho :p) and please come to pick it up :D HHOOOOOORRRAAAAY. I ran back, without a breathe. THANK YOU LORD. My gloomy day has finally passed! And strangely, the rain also stopped!!  Well, good thing to remember :p




SO THAT WAS IT. I am here. And feel sleepy as always. 9.16 pm.
Just cooked my first rice on the kitchen. And don't know what will be the side dish. I planned to make nasi goreng when I realised I don't have any frying oil just yet. And maybe, I will eat it with Indomie. Done with fancy food here and there for these past nights. I think I should start to eat-IN until the first allowance comes :p


ps. Oh yeah my roommate finally arrived from India after a long delayed flight. GLAD to have another new international friends. This really reminds me URBANA CHAMPAIGN A LOT :(
I miss them all SO MUCH. Can I make friends like that again? That was really the best year of friendship in my whole life. God please help me to be nice to everyone, not jutek and moody, not crazy and be a good friend. amen :)





GOOD BYE.

kezzy.


ps. photos will be coming soon
pps. I STILL CAN'T MANAGE HOW TO DOCUMENT MY LIFE WELL. I haven't found the way to use my huge dslr on daily basis, while my old iphone4 gets really old and cracky. SO, I just uploaded two shaky pics from my friends phone, that was all. And of course I got several mean comments on those by my sisters. It was all about the quality of pics and THE SAME SCARF I've been using that makes me look like a homeless girl without a proper clothes. Yes. Thanks. I will manage the PICTURES and CLOTHES issues later. I believe I will do.