Dissa Ahdanisa's Stories

I didn't wanna watch TV. I didn't want to read about the radiation. I didn't want to see those sad news. What I want to is my friends' facebook link updates about 50 brave nuclear plant officers , heart-warming tweets from Japanese people after the earthquake shook, and Indonesian local news praising the Japanese government on how quick and effective they handle the crisis. I know this country is strong. Its people trust each other. They spread the warmth into each other's heart in the middle of this cold spring. Even the 60 years old grandpa believes the nation will prevail. I was lucky to get a study chance in a small city of Beppu, then traveled around to Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo and other beautiful cities of the country. There, I realized, Japanese have something that I rarely find anywhere else. They have positive energy. An energy that is transferred from one to another even on the busiest street of Tokyo. The way they bow every time they say thank you, or smile...

I love traveling! You guys may have known that, hehe. 4 years in Japan gave me chances to explore another side of the world, meet amazing people and learn beautiful languages. I even started a traveling blog for my mom's birthday present, here . Oh, being a world traveler, my goal it is. So as a tight-budget traveler, I considered the best "omiyage" or souvenir for myself are postcards. They're super cheap compare to key chain :P and not only for me, I can send them to my friends too. Fortunately, I have cool friends who love to have postcards sent to their mailboxes. They are okay with my handwritings and thousands of smiley face i put at end of the sentences. The habit to send postcards during traveling was adopted from two of my Chinese friends, Zou Chen and Zou Yang who came to Indonesia last November. They went to South-East Asia for 2 weeks and sent postcards to their family from each country they visited. They even sent me one from Vietnam, with background of M...