Saturday, 8 April 2017. I got a message from my friend. He invited me to hike a mountain. And I was like "Are you sure?", because I've never hike a mountain before. And he said that it will be okay, because this mountain is not that high, it's just about 3500ft above sea level. So I said, I'm in. Before that, I really want to hike a mountain, indeed. But there are no friends who want to. So this is my opportunity to hike a mountain. Then I prepared and packed many stuff.

At evening, I went to my friend's house, to gather with my other friends. We were waiting and preparing what things we should bring. But there is something we need but any of us didn't have it. So my friend and I go to supermarket to buy it. Actually it is a gas for a stove. After we got it, we went back to my friend's house and tested it. One thing I remember is when we were testing the stove, it spraying fire and hit my friend's face. But my friend's face is okay, we laughted instead. About quarter hour later, we were ready to go.

The starting point of the mountain is pretty close to my friend's house, just took 10 minutes by a motorcycle. After we got in there, we were getting ready again, and then we prayed. I was in the front of the last row. That night was really silent and dark, just sounds of some insects and just light from our flashlight. I thought it will be easy to do, well it was easy at the beginning but, it was getting harder and harder to do. In 30 minutes after we started, we took a rest, because our feet felt stiff. About 5 minutes after we rest, we hike back.

Really, it is so hard to do for beginner like me. My body felt so tired, and my heart didn't stop beating fast. After 40 minutes, we took our second rest. I'm still remember in that time I almost fainted. We stop for about 5 minutes. When we felt good, we continue our way. Just 15 minutes after that, we arrived at the peak of the mountain. Finally, I can lie down, because all of my body felt weary.

I thought it won't be many people there, but it was. A few of my friends were assembling a tent. While I just sat and looked at the scenery around. It was really magnificent scenery, the lights from cities around the mountain.

*This photo is took by phone camera, it was my friend btw.

After the tent assembled, we put our stuff on there. Then we made some cups of coffee, and we were enjoying the scenery while we were chatting. It was about 11 p.m and I felt very sleepy, so I decided to sleep. But a couple minutes later, sounded someone singing. Then I got out from tent and saw that my friend's friend was singing. Because it seems funny, so I joined my friends to watch him singing in front of a camp fire, while warming up. An hour later, we all slept.

At 4 a.m I woke up, some of my friends were already woke up while the others still sleep. Because we were hungry, so we cooked instant noodles and ate it. After that, we clean up trashes around us. A few hours later the sun was rising, but we can't see it clearly because the sky is cloudy.

We took many photos for instagram. And after that we tidy up the tent and our stuff and we ready to go home. Evidently, a way to go home is quite difficult, because the way is wet and slippery. So we must be careful. Although we careful, we keep falling. And because we keep falling, we even deliberately slided ourselves. We took about an hour and half to arrived to the starting point. And finally we got in there with dirty condition, but it's okay. So, that's my first experience to hike a mountain, I won't forget it.