A Different Start (2): Happy New Year!

Time flies away so fast... it still feels that yesterday was the New Year. Anyway, here's my story about what I did in it.

In the New Year's Eve, my grandpa's youngest brother had his 60th birthday. His family held a birthday party in Sheraton Hotel, Dago, Bandung. I and my sister was really excited as we rarely go out to celebrate New Year; sometimes we don't even wake up on the 12 o'clock. We didn't plan to stay there until the New Year, though.

The party was really nice. There were lots of lecturers (my grandpa is a planology lecturer). My family members were the youngest guests, I guess. We all had fun.

Unfortunately, my grandpa's youngest child was unable to come. My grandpa has two children; both living in the USA. The oldest is Aunt Yoda Patta. She is really beautiful and smart; she is a PhD from Massachussets Institute of Technology in Material Engineering. She has a/some patent(s), you can search in the Internet if you'd like to know about them. The party was the first time I and my sisters met her, she spends most of her life abroad. She was accompanied by her husband, Uncle Angel, an American that also got his engineer title from MIT.

That day, my grandpa, grandma, and Aunt Yoda convinced me to study abroad. My father agreed with them, but my mother didn't. She's really worried about me, I understand. :)

It was when we'd like to go home when my grandpa asked us not to, and to wait until the midnight. The clock showed 11 o'clock, so we decided to wait. The Sheraton was then full of music; there was a female DJ (I love her remixes). We were also given New Year trumpets. Some attractions were also shown; fire dance and beer mixing (but there wasn't any beer in the bottle, I hope you understand what I meant by this). What's interesting is that the lecturers danced along the music with all their strength. My grandpa and grandma even asked our family to join them, saying "You're still young, don't be too serious."

When it was only ten seconds to the New Year, the MCs asked us to count down with them (and a video showed with a projector). "Ten...nine..eight...seven...six...five...four...three...two...one! Happy new year everyone!" Fireworks started to be launched, the trumpets were blown and people were so happy. My grandpa, grandma and aunt hugged each other and my family, too.

Shortly after that, we asked to go home. Thank you, grandpa, grandma, aunt and uncle!

end of part two