A Glance of Me

Chapter 8's

The semester break has arrived. Unlike her friends who vacation will go for a walk or vacation to the grandmother's house or to other relatives, Nia will only spend her time at home to help her father and mother. Oh yes, do not forget there are two Nia sisters who are also ready to help, namely Mas Dwi and Mas Dadit.

Mas Dwi happened to also be on holiday because he is now sitting in the 3rd grade of SMK which indicates that he will graduate soon. While Mas Dadit has worked so he is rarely home.

Currently it happens that the rice field is harvesting vegetables. Vegetables are harvested there mustard, spinach, long beans and also there is chili. Early in the morning Nia had gone to the rice field to harvest vegetables. Why should it be morning? Because so later when sold vegetables still look fresh or fresh and do not wither.

Nia pov's

This morning I went to the rice field to harvest vegetables with my mother or I used to call my mother Mother. Armed with an array (container cloth), krasak (sack) and bamboo rope and additional raffia rope we also went to the kulon rice field.

Arriving at the rice field I began mbubut (replug) spinach lathe that is ready to harvest, while Mother prefers to take mustard. After finishing in the unplug then the vegetables are edited or tied with bamboo rope and raffia rope in accordance with the measure. Finished tied vegetables are washed to remove soil that sticks to the distribution when harvested. Finished vegetables are washed and then placed in sacks so that they can be taken home easily and deposited to the vegetable merchant who has ordered.

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The clock shows at 09:00 in the morning. After from the rice field earlier, I went home to clean myself and then helped Mom cook and clean the house. Today the plan is that Mas Dwi and I will make jemblem (misro) for a warm tea companion snack in the morning. It was after from the rice field Mas Dwi had taken cassava in the garden behind the house, so now stay peeled and shredded.

I peeled the cassava, then washed it after that I grated (shrink). Mas Dwi is peeling coconut to be used as a mixture of jemblem aka misro. Finished peeled Dwi mas dressing which grates coconut while I prepare brown sugar to be used as filling.

Finish cassava and coconut shredded then mixed after it made balls and the middle is filled with brown sugar stay in the fry. When the middle of the cool frying misro, suddenly a familiar voice was heard chatting with Mother in the living room. The hell time is his voice?

“Niaaaa!!! Duh anteng really, until I come here aja not stirred at all?”, said Avi who suddenly sat next to me who was cool frying.

“Eh, Avi??!!! Actually you yes, I guess it wasn't, yes pardon really I don't know, after yesterday you said you didn't know if you could come here, eh know already here! When did I get here?”, I said a little surprised, because I think I just heard wrong.

“I have arrived here from semalem hehe, actually when I contacted you via text message yesterday I was on my way here, want to make a surprise for you hehehe? Have you got more new friends than me?”, asked Avi with a little joke.

“Oh, so yesterday deliberately so do not want to tell me if again the way here! Ish very evil indeed same friend himself!”, said me while slightly singing lips.

“Of course I miss dong! You don't know if I'm lonely know not because you don't exist, I don't have any friends that I usually confide in. Know for myself I'm hard to get along with people! Eh to forget, the fried cicipin. Fortunately I already want to live in a doang fryer stay in lift.”, I continued later.

“Wah thanks Ni, I am so moved. Yes, you're still like you were, haven't changed. Try to open yourself more for other friends Nia, there is Ken, or Dhila.”, Avi reply while eating fried foods.

“Yaudah yuk chat in front, happened to have finished also nih friednya!”, take me to Avi.

We also went to the front room did not forget the misro that I made me bring. Arriving in the front room we started a chat session between friends. Avi told me about her life in the city, and instead I told her about my days here.

“Nia, later play to my house yes, all with other friends. Has it been a while since we last got together? I'm here because it's not long just two days, tomorrow is also ready to go back to Jakarta.”

“Yeah, very fast, time already want to go back anyway Vi? I haven't told you much. You know, soon my budhe, my father's brother who will come back here, continue to settle down and live here. I'm getting scared.” I finally told Avi about the budhe Titin who was going back to the village. It's not that I'm not happy, but I don't know why Budhe is always cynical every time he meets me. Sometimes I'm afraid of him.

“No papa Ni, if you feel uncomfortable saying it to your mother or father. Don'tbeafraid. No way your budhem gonna hurt you, right? But if the rich incident first yaudah you to the house eyang uti me only, you know that you love you too. It will help you. I'll tell you later to Eyang deh.” Avi won me over with his words.

Maybe for you I'm too timid or too over-impressed. But, when I heard that Budhe Titin would stay at home with my family I became unsettled. In addition to his dislike of me, he also often treated me harshly when I was a child, especially if I was alone at home. I did not dare to tell my father the same mother, because budhe always threatened me would mukulin me if it hit ngadu. That's why I never told.

The nia pov end

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Author pov

“Hai, Avi!!! Long time no see you getting higher huh? Geez!!,” Winda who just arrived at Avi's house has been screaming. Understandably, once Winda, Avi, Nia, Dhiki and Ogi were playmates from their small to their school even one class. Winda is excited if there is Avi, because Winda feels inferior to Avi. Especially now that Avi is getting higher.

“Hai Win! You are also getting higher, but still my height, hahahaha!!”, said Avi with a happy laugh managed to make Winda upset.

“Oke stop each other aka rich just know, now we have gathered, on want to do nih?”, asked Ogi who was impatient to start what activities for their reunion for a while.

The flashback

Today the students of the 5th grade got the independent task of IPS. They were told to make a book summary about the history in Indonesia towards independence.

Nia, Dhiki, Avi, Winda and Ogi decide to work together. Because in addition to IPS tasks they also have mathematical tasks.

“Eh Gi! Vi! Dhik!, ntar gather yuk at Nia's house to perform IPS tasks as well as mathematical tasks. Well, later we do the math then there are still those who do not understand tuh, ntar we ask aja to Nia, he's a math whiz.”, ntar, Winda calls his friends and proposes to study at Nia's house.

“Eh not in my house, do you know for yourself where you can study in my house.”, replied Nia on the proposal of Willa.

“Hmm, how about at your house only Vi! Well behind your house, right garden, we learn in the garden how? Ntar I brought a mat deh.”, Dhiki proposed that is usually quiet finally replied as well.

“By my house, ntar I said eyang uti. Let if you come can go directly in.”

Finally they decided to study at Avi's house. Right in the back garden of Avi's house. They will study around 1pm after school.

As per the current agreement, Winda, Dhiki, Ogi and Nia are gathering at Avi's house. Not to forget also Dhiki has brought a mat for their pedestal to learn later. They then headed to the back garden. The mats are already in the title then they immediately take their respective sitting positions. After that they also began to do the task of summarizing first because the summarized is not too much. The 20-minute lapse of the summary has been completed. They decided to take a break to relax their hands and achy back.

“Hei friends! Look what the hell is that? How rich is the trap for birds?”, Ogi voices in the silence of those who are resting.

“Mana Gi? Yes, samperin yuk! That there is a bird that has entered the trap yet?”, Nia said as she stood up and walked towards the trap.

Crutches..

Before long as they approached the trap there was a sound like a broken wood, it turned out to be on their right that there was just one bird that entered the trap. You want to know what a trap is like? The trap is made of excavated soil in the form of a rectangle with a depth of about 15 to 20 cm then ceramic floor used as a cover for the ground hole and a piece of wood that is not too strong as a buffer ceramics. Why isn't the wood so strong? This is so that when there will be a bird that goes to a wooden trap will collapse when it is nudged by the bird, as happened just now.

“Woi cah kae lo, enek siji manuke, manuk thilang len, cultivated yok diingu, kiro-kiro golek ora ya karo sing gawe hole kanggo njak manuk kui?”“Hey guys, there's one bird, finches loh, taken yuk reared, roughly sought after not the same that makes the bird trap?”, said Winda who had been in the place of the trapped bird earlier.

So cool to see the bird trap and discuss to take the bird or not they do not realize that they have spent almost an hour. Finally they returned to the mat to continue working on Math tasks.

Flashback off

“Ah yes, really we used to study in the back garden to make a task eh said he wanted to rest and instead we like to see birds until we forget time!”, said Nia.

“Okay now we will do this?”, Ask Avi.

“When we burn, in Nia's garden there is cassava! Nia can ask for it? Dhiki gave his opinion.

“Yaudah take aja tuh through there just jump the fence.”, said Nia casually told Dhiki to take cassava with yam which then assisted Winda.

Cassava and yam are available. The wood for the fires is there as well. When Dhiki and Winda took the yam, Nia, Ogi and Avi chose to collect firewood. The five of them also started a burning event not to forget to also exchange stories with each other.

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