We are "Little Family of HUFSan from Indonesia"

With not so many Indonesian students @ HUFS as compared to other campuses around Seoul, we proudly call ourselves "Little family of HUFSan from Indonesia". Yes, there may be other student exchanges and other students who merely came her for a short-term study...but...we simply couldn't reach them. 

anyway...we managed to meet those who at least study in HUFS for a longer period. 

so..we met up at Mr. Pizza...last night to celebrate the start of the semester as well as to catch up with one another. 

August, Cresti, Stevie, me, Rieke, and Winny.

We're all a happy Indonesian family who currently taking course @ HUFS.

Welcome aboard everyone.

These Three Kids Knew How To Party!!!

First, they couldn't wait to wait in line to be seated for pizza!! 

Even after having been seated, they just couldn't be patient enough to wait...for the pizza to come!  

and the BIG meal just arrived..not a minute too soon!  

what? they wanted to have some cake after 'monstrously' had two large pizza party? 

and now what? they even put on some head-bands or head accessories and even some cocky-looking green glasses? 

Like this????? 

Even after arriving at home, they just couldn't wait to blow the candles put on top of the cake we just had. 

Though none of them was celebrating any B'day or anything. 

But..for the sake of happiness and being together...

they just knew how to kick the party started..at least in their own realm of kid's world.

@ Mr. Pizza: A Dinner

Did you have fun, gals? Sure they did. 

They were so excited when we told them that we would dine out. Especially..as they found out that we would have pizza over dinner. Hmm...having pizza is actually a bit hard right here in Korea where most of the ingredients are meat that we cannot eat. So, the only safe choice we could have is (chuckles) always to make sure that we have either vegetarian pizzas or seafood pizzas. 

So, the other day (Monday night), we met our two students who happened to be also studying in Seoul. Diana (white jilbab): arrived a year ago to start her MA at Hanyang University. And Hesti (black jilbab): just graduated a week ago from Ehwa Womans University.

So, the occasion: was to welcome Diana and at the same time to congratulate Hesti on her graduation.

Once again: Eyra and Freya could not keep themselves quiet for a while. They kept on moving about the place: Oh, they loved seeing the cook make pizza live. Yes: one of the characteristics of Mr. Pizza is that customers have a chance to see the pizzas being made right in front of their eyes.  

Now it's a picture where my wife's in it^^. See all the girls are clad in jilbab. And I was the only man in the group. One man with three women in jilbab and two kids:)^^ I wonder if there were other customers who might have misunderstood the situation like: 

"Wow, that man has three women!!!!^^^ hahahahahahahahahaha

Of course...I was just making fun of myself.

But, with more and more Moslems students coming to Korea or Seoul in particular, I am hoping that more and more people are more accustomed and welcome to seeing women in jilbab. 

After all, Korea is transforming itself into a multicultural society. 

And we are a part of Korean society at the moment. 

Oh..ah..about the pizza: We loved it. We love Mr. Pizza.!!!!

Jobir's Birthday

I was walking down the backyard of the main building at HUFS when I spotted a familiar figure hurrying up towards the building. It was Jobir--my friend. He was unusually cloaked in a suit like he was going to have some job interview.

(note: the picture does not correspond to the story cos it was taken right after the birthday bash, actually)

Indeed, he DID have an interview for the final exam. But, it turned out that that was not the reason as to why he was wearing a formal attire. It was his birthday. :)










Wow..that was nicely cool.
So, I got his invitation to come over for his birthday bash.
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The class (I mean...the exam's over)...and I got back to my room only to find another message reminding me of Jobir's birthday. We were going to Mr. Pizza.

--Jobir, Maya, Felix, Wawan, Polina, and some
other friends were ready to have the party. Since it was colder than the day before, we dressed up in winter jacket....only to find that the birthday boy stood up distinctively wearing his suit.












 I think that was a good decision of him to wear one since he looks cool in it. It compliments him.












So, we're having this good pizza.: a large cheese pizza and a potato sweet pizza.
In short, after a quick break .....










and off...we started the party by digging into the delicious pizza.

So, Jobir...Happy Birtday.
May All of the wishes come true.
Amiiin.