It was our first day in US after a very long journey spending many hours on jet planes, waiting in the airports, and did airport administrations. for sure, we were very exhausted. Some of us got jet lag. literally we're fatigue. you know we had spent almost two days to reach Columbia. Then we finally arrived in an apartment which so called Cliff. We had small meeting with the university staffs then went to our own rooms. It was the first night and we were still not accustomed to sleeping that night because the reality in Indonesia it was still morning. Switching the custom was not that easy.
Morning comes. I woke up sleeplessly, rushed to down stair and got together with Indonesian fellows. Excited! that was what I feel. We talked and laughed a lot for many things that couldn't simply explain. Our agenda at that moment was doing a placement test in English Programs for Internationals (EPI) building. It said it's a 30-minute-walking spot. and off we went.
But wait a minute! we lost some one. yap, Budi. where is he? had something happened with him? we all were worried. In the same time we felt really shy to Rush who continuously asked about his presence. after a reasonable time Budi showed up. He look really tired as we did. I had thought that we would directly move on to the place (since we're late and we had to do the test, the test oh my God) before Rush said, not yet. "I won't miss the teaching moment." he said. Then he talked to Budi in a very friendly manner. "Budi, what would you feel if, when you are all ready, and your friends never showed up?." Budi replied, "I would be very disappointed, Rush." Rush: "so would you do again things that you don't like to the rest of your friends?." Budi said: "I will never do it again, Rush."
well, at that moment i was thinking if Rush had not talked to Budi, Budi would not have know he did wrong. It would happen if Rush just an "easy going" and let it happen. And Budi would probably not changed.
