Serene Sudan
Friday, 24th of October, Gonder in Ethiopia to bushcamp 30km outside Gedaref in Sudan
Happy to explore a new country, I make my way to the border town Matema on a partly tarred and mountainous road. Before I get there I almost forget to stop in Shenedi, 50 km short of Matema where according to other overlanders’ information the customs office supposed to be. That office is quite a sight and if I’d dared to, I would have taken a photo to document it! Their customs office actually looks more like a dormitory! Four string beds with mosquito nets, each one with a snoozing customs officer in them, have been put up in a way almost like to fortify the counter! Without one of them moving an inch I am told it is lunchtime and they would only open at 3 pm again! I look at my cellphone – it’s just after 1 pm now, lunchtime! What a joke! After telling them that I am still trying to make it to Khartoum today, they make me understand that the person with the key for the drawer in which the stamp is stored is gone home for lunch… but they assure me that somebody seems to have gone to call him. So I go back to my car and make myself a quick salad for lunch. After about half an hour the guy eventually arrives, only to tell me that I could proceed to the customs office in Matema! Hm, interesting! Didn’t know there is one now! He signs the letter though, that I got from the Customs and Revenue Authority in Addis.
When I arrive at customs in Matema, the customs officer in charge, again the only one that has the magic stamp to get me out of Ethiopia also seems to be on lunch in the village and a few attempts to track him down prove to be unsuccessful. So I try my luck at immigration where a young guy with quite an attitude grabs my passport and pages through a huge book with long lists of numbers to see if my passport number is blacklisted! I seem to be clean, so back to the customs office where the guy eventually turns up to stamp my carnet.
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Menggila di hari pertama bimbel !
Jadi,,hari ini, 11 Oktober 2008 adalah hari pertama masuk bimbel !
BORING ABESS..dimulai dari jam 06.45-11.30 ! Gimana gak enek ? Pas lagi biologi, masih sedikit dengerin. Pas matematik P.Tjio masih dengerin juga. Pas matematik B.Ani, gambar" tatto. Pas inggris, nyisir" bareng sma Gebi. Pokoknya udah gabener dh ! Terus...pas pulangnya gw k BSM sama Dnaya, Josi, Debora, Sandra, sama si Shelina !
Pas di BSM, ketemu sama 'pange' uda gitu kita misah. Denaya ama pange, Gw sama Josi dkk ! gila..keketawaan abis"an !
Nyari BH + celana dallemnya ! Tapi akirnya cman beli clana dalem [2 ptong]*untuk kado.
Terus...si Debora, Sandra, sama Shelina balik duluan ! jadinya gw ama si Josi. Kita nunggu lamaaaaa pisan.
Gw telpon si Denaya ga diangkat" ! sms ga di bales, nelpon grady sma dimas..lgi dialihkan ! KAMPRET SEMUA !!
Terus, pas lg dnaya nganterin gw balik, gw nanya "Den, tdi gw nelpon lo brapa kali ?" denaya :"49 kali ! hahaha ! GILA tep !"
Lanjut ! gw ama Josi teh udah bolak balik sana sini ! Akirnya ketemu juga sama Dnaya & pange yang baru keluar dari studi 21 !*asoy th. Gw sama si Josi yang sengsara, nunggu di J.CO sampe lumutan ! Lanjut cerita...
Karna mereka berduaan terus, dan kira kyk yg ga dianggep, jadinya kita [gw sma Josi] bertingkah kayak orang kurang kerjaan, contohnya :
Ngitungin segitiga" di atap BSMNgitungin orang yang naek eskalatorNgitungin orang yang jalan gak searah ama kitaNgitungin mobil yang lewat di pintu utama
Udah gituh, gw ke rumah denaya. Soalnya maw blajar mat untuk tes di Angela ! Gara" gw gak bawa buku, semuahnya jadi kacau ! Jadinya qta nelpon kenno bwat nanya soal ! Mana si kenno ngasih tauknya gak jelas lgih !! PARAH DAH ! Kuping uda panas, berjam-jam telponan nanya soal ! Terus mikir abis-abisan ! Kamarnya PANAS PISAN pula ! MAMPUSLAH !
Terus..akirnya gw ama Josi buka baju. Ngomongin segala macam hal*aib
Si Kenno makah keketawaan ! MENGGILA ! dan ampir jam 21.00 ! Kita baru bisa ngerjain 1 soal dari 10 soal tersebut ! Karna udah malem, jadinya gw memutuskan untuk PULANG ! Pas keluar kamar dnaya, NYOS ! ADEM MEN !!!! gerimis lagi..aduh ! itumah asoy pisan !
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