#Wonderful Halmahera Utara

Jakarta, 8th september 2019. 12.45 AM

Enjoying coffee, had a chat that night were interrupted by an announcement. It told the flower air passengers to Manado should board the plane through gate 1. Sita and her partnership team finished the drink and prepared their belongings to board the plane. Sita noticed that at her boarding pass, she would sit next to strangers. Datik would sit with Mr. Kasid. Dini would sit next to Mrs. Elah. Mr. Yanto would sit next to Mr. Agus. Sita felt uncomfortable to sit next to strangers, because it would be a long flight and it would be uncomfortable to sleep next to strangers. She discussed the problem with the team. Fortunately, Mr. Kasid was so generous. He was willing to change seat with sita. So, Sita would sit next to Datik.

Along the flight Sita tried to sleep, she couldn't. She also could hear a very loud snore from the passengers behind her. She couldn't sleep nor eat. She refused dinner offered by the stewardess. It was not a best time to have a dinner. She just need to sleep. But sita only got restless sleep. Then sita tried to hear songs through TV monitor in front of her. Who knows by listening music, It would help her to sleep sleeping. She pressed the button. "hey, It doesn't work." sita whispering. Sita :"Excuse me, the TV is not working, How can I turn it on." asked sita to the stewardess. Stewardess :" I think the TV need to be reset. Wait a second please." Sita :" Thank you." Sita had waited for the reset, tried to press the screen again. It kept not working. Well, Sita gave up, closed her eyes had a restless sleep.

Almost every half an hours, Sita opened her eyes and saw her wrist watch. She also looked beside her, Datik was sleeping. On the next row, Dini and Mrs. Elah slept like a baby. How nice! The night was getting cold. Sita Felt so cold and flip her feet to make it warm. It was a long sleepless night.

Sita's watch showed 4.30 AM. Luckily, the passenger next to the window opened the window lid. Sita could see that the dawn had cracked. She could see beautiful orange cloud layers. So beautiful. She mezmerised by the view. It made she forgot the fatigue she had.

Not long, the captain announced that they would land in manado airport. " at last...first stop." said Sita.

September, 8th, 2019. Manado. 07.00 AM

The plane had landed safely. Everybody got off from the plane orderly through the aviobridge. Entering the airport, the Halut fellowship team were gather and reported their changing plane to next destination, kao airport in the transit desk. They had to wait for the boarding arround two hours.

Mrs. Elah :"Hungry?", "sure!!" sita, Dini and Datik replied quickly. They were all hungry, they could eat a horse. Then Mrs.Elah asked Mr. Agus to get us breakfast. Then they found the Surabaya reout itstaurant in the airport. As usual Mrs. Elah shared the same table with Sita, Dini and Datik. After having our order to the waiter, Mrs. Elah said :"hey, why don't we find Manado specific food instead of east java food. It's our chance to taste real Manado Food.I guess we were too hungry to think abou it. " the girls were laughing. "well, no problem maam, we can still taste it when we come back to Jakarta. We will stop in Manado again right?" Answered Sita. Mrs. Elah :" That's right, at least we had something to make us warm and full." They all laughed happily.

Their stomach were full. It gave them strength. They walked to the waiting room, sat there waiting. It was about an hour more. Some of the group were sleeping, the rest were busy with the cellphone. Sita sat and looked arround, Dini and Mrs. Elah had fallen asleep. Datik were having a chat with Mr. Yanto. Mr. Kasid and Mr. Agus smiled to their cellphone. Sita tried to sleep, but could not. May be it was because she kept imagining what would the turborprop plane be. It was her first time taking turboprop plane. Small plane that would took them to north halmahera. Dini finally woke up. Sita and Dini had a chat. They talked about the plan on the fellowship program. The teaching plan they would apply to the guru mitra class, the class observation in guru mitra's class, the workshop and others. They missed their guru mitra as well. They would like to know their progress in teaching as well.

10.00 AM

Time to board the plane. The turboprop plane was small. It could carry arround 40 passengers. All the fellowship team had plitted seat. Everybody sat near the window. It was nice bacause it was morning, so they caould see the view clearly. The plane was ready to take off. The sounds of the propellers made sita a bit afraid. But, in ten minutes, she could see the beautiful view. The blue sea that spread widely from above. The green forest surrounded by the sea. It was breathtaking. Sita pressed her face on the window to see the view clearly. She looked arround and saw that Datik and Dini did the same thing too. Thank to Mr. Sugeng who had booked the ticket. Sita smiled. Arround an hour the pilot announced the landing. The landing was awful. Sita almost jumped. Thanks God, there were no passenger next to her. If there was, may be their head would bumped each other.

11. 05 AM

The plane had stopped perfectly. The group got off happily. They saw the airport. Sita, Dini and Datik felt super. It was just like a dream that they could step on the island thousonds miles away, that they only saw it on the map. They boys had rushed to enter the airport. But tha girls expressed their happiness by taking picture on the landing base. After some photos, they rushed to the luggage gate. Mr. Agus and Mr. kasid had already taken care of the baggage. They went to the arrival gate. Some of their guru mitra picked them up. They greeted them happily, hugged each others like a family. The guru mitra were Mrs. Mey, Mrs. Ida, Mrs. Indra, Mrs. Lenny, Mrs. Ebin and Mr. Jainal. The headmasters Mr. Karel also picked them. It was a great honour. From the airport, we would took arround 90 kms journey to the hotel. The guru mitra had prepared two cars. we were ready to explore halut.

TO BE CONTINUED