Hola!!

Hola!!

4 Agustus 2013 - 7 Juli 2014

hari-hari berada di benua biru, hari-hari penuh suka duka di negara matador, dan hari-hari penuh petualangan sudah berakhir. Tapi, cerita mengenai kehidupan, perjalanan, tawa, dan sebagainya baru akan dimulai.

11 bulan, 2 benua, 13 negara (termasuk Vatikan), puluhan kota, dan ribuan kenangan telah terukir.Tak cukup satu atau dua hari, seratus atau seribu foto untuk menjelaskan semua itu, tetapi melalui tulisan di blog ini, kenangan itu akan coba dirangkai dan berharap

"Semoga mendapatkan kesempatan untuk kembali kesana secepatnya."

August 4th, 2013 - July 7th, 2014

all the day in the blue continent, all the day full of happiness or sadness in the matador country, and all the day full of journey already finished. But, the story about life, travel, journey, etc has just started.

11 months, 2 continents, 13 countries (include Vatican), tens of cities, thousands of memories already graven. One or two days, a hundred or a thousand photos is not enough to explain all of that, but through this blog, all the memories try to be assembled and hope

"Wish I get another chance to go back there as soon as possible"

Fiesta de Moros y Cristianos en Alcoy

Hola! voy a explicar mi experencía cuando fui a Alcoy. (Ok, I think its better in english because I know that my Spanish still not fluent yet.jajjaja)

May 3rd - 5th is the day of Fiestas de Moros y Cristianos (Festival of Mosleem and Christiani) in Alcoy, a small city in Valencia province (+/- 2 hours by train from Valencia). This festival is celebrate in (most of) every city in Comunidad Valenciana but in Alcoy (some said) is the biggest one. It held for remembering the historical about various Mosleem uprising taking place in the region led to San Jorge, the patron of Alcoy, who is attributed with the intervention in a battle to defend the new population who were under attack by the Mosleems.

Each day of festival has different program and it called Festival Trilogy. First day is the day of parades, the Cristian parade in the morning and the Mosleem parade in the afternoon. The second day celebrates the festival's patron,  San Jorge and the last day is called Alardo, which recreates the epic gun battle that took place in the street of the city.

I just came to the Mosleem parade and I was a little bit surprised because I really feel like in that era and with the sound of some instrumental, which is I called, such as rebana, kecrekan, gendang, and their costume also make me thinked that they are Mosleem (but in fact, I don't know). Yup, I can called it as atmosphere of Arabic,hehe. I watched some dancers, warriors from different "fila" (this how the called community in Alcoy and surroundings, like "falla" in Valencia), some animals (horse, camel, and some kinds of birds) and also a bunch, its like rain, of confetti and streamers thrown from the balcony or from the kids in the parade.

picture of ´´Mosleem fila´´ in Alcoy

 

parade of the warrior from different fila

some dancers in the parade

This festival is so interesting, but there are some (for me) inconvenient, such as there are not many public free spaces to see the parade because along the parade way, it already full of chairs which is I must pay to sit and see the parade (although in fact this festival is free). So, its a little bit difficult to find a free area with good view. Then, the location of Alcoy is also a little bit isolated because it is surrounded by mountain and I just know that there is a train from Valencia (renfe media distancia) but doesn´t have many optional train so you must aware of the train schedule. But the interesting thing for me is although I saw a Mosleem parade, but as long as I saw, only me and another 3 women who wear hijab.hehehe

Hope that next year this festival gonna be more glorious :)

source : brochure of the Festival by tourist info of Alcoy

picture source : personal documentation using Sony Experia J

Hola!

Hola!

Ya, hola dari Valencia, España. Setelah hampir 10 bulan ga nulis-nulis lagi di blog (yang padahal dulu janjinya ´´tiap bulan minimal satu postingan yang isinya cerita tentang kehidupan disini´´) sekarang entah kenapa di akhir petualangan pertama di Eropa ini kepikiran lagi buat nulis-nulis, sharing segala macam pengalaman dan aktivitas selama disini. Terlambat memang, tapi tak apa, sekaligus mengenang segala sesuatu yang sudah terlewat dan ga bisa diulang (karena hari yang lalu tak akan kembali lagi, tapi pengalaman yang ada mungkin akan terulang walau dengan cerita yang berbeda).

Yup, so far selama 3 Agustus 2013 sampai hari ini, 6 Mei 2014 banyak perubahan yang terjadi semisal kemampuan berbahasa Spanyol yang menurut saya sudah jauh dari apa yang saya bayangkan, kemampuan memasak yang untuk ukuran saya, hmm...okelah dan masih banyak lagi. Selain itu, kaki ini pun sudah menjejakkan kaki di 10 negara di 2 benua. Sungguh ini semua bagaikan mimpi yang bahkan sampai sekarang saya masih belum ingin bangun dari mimpi indah ini.

Mimpi, semua memang berawal dari mimpi, sampai mimpi ini menjadi nyata tetapi saya seakan berada di dalam mimpi itu. Kenapa saya sebut mimpi, karena saya bisa lari dari kenyataan (eh), maksudnya kenyataan status sebagai seorang full time student di UGM. Disini yang tadinya saya pikir akan belajar banyak, sibuk dengan berbagai tugas dll ternyata terbalik total. Ini mungkin karena saya pribadi yang tidak mau mengambil banyak course, dan kebetulan course yang saya ambil tidak memiliki banyak tugas.hehehe. Jadilah saya disini seorang full time traveler

Hmm, tinggal 2 bulan lagi saya di Valencia, España, Eropa dan 3 bulan lagi sebelum kembali menyandang status mahasiswa tingkat akhir di UGM. Sedih rasanya, apalagi mengingat banyak waktu yang sudah terbuang percuma (tanpa belajar, padahal disini saya tau saya bisa belajar banyak hal) tetapi senang rasanya sudah bisa melihat belahan duniaNya yang lain dan bertemu dengan kawan-kawan dari hampir seluruh dunia. 

Semoga suatu saat bisa kembali lagi ke Eropa dan Disfruta mis 2 meses aqui con feliz!