Friday, September 29th 2017. "Are
you sure?" ,"Will you go even with this weather?", "Are you kidding?"
That's questions from my friends and my family, because in that day, I
was going to camp in Puntang Mountain with a few of my friends. But
unfortunately before we go, the sky was so cloudy, and soon it rained.
That's why people asked us that. But, we couldn't just cancel as simple
as that, there will be many problems if we canceled it.
A few days before, my classmate
persuade me to hike Puntang Mountain and do a camp there. Because I was
not busy at the time that he planned, so I said "OK! Just if not a
bullsh*t, I'll join!". So we planned it long before, about a week
before. At first, there was many who said that they will join. I thought
it will be fun if there are many people. But, when the day was getting
closer, a few people said that they cancel to join the camp. I have bad
feeling about this, I thought it will be nonsense as usual.
Day by day passed, until thursday evening. One day before we went, we was chatting about the camp in the Line Group.
We talked about tent, sleeping bags, foods, etc. that we have to bring
for tomorrow. Then my friend and I, went to a camp rental to rent a
couple sleeping bags, and bought two gas cylinders. After that, we went
to our friend's house who has a tent, we wanted to borrow it. But
unfortunately, he wasn't there. Then I went back to my house, and got
prepared for tomorrow.
I arrived at my friend's house with my clothes wetness because of the rain. My friend said "Just wait, it will be over soon", so I waited. About an half hour later, the rain stopped. So we could continue, I took one of my friend to my motorcycle. We went to my friend's house whose house is close to Puntang Mountain. On the way there, I stop at my friend's house to borrow a tent and shoes, becuase her brother has many of it. Then we continue, and gather there in the evening about 6 pm. There are 7 people including me.
We prepared in there for an hour, then we ready to go. But sh*t happens once more, it rained again. So we forced to stay there to wait until the rain stop. We worried at that time because it was heavy rain, and it was 7 pm. We didn't know what to do, we just waited. Then we chatted and played guitar while we were still waiting until the rain stop. I couldn't describe but that moment is very confusing, it was still raining for a long time. So we made a deal that if the rain didn't stop until 9 pm, we cancel it. In 9 pm, it was still raining, so we just tried to sleep.
Then on 10 pm, the rain stopped. So we woke up and thought about should we go or not. The decision was we will go. So we went at 10 pm, it was ridiculous. Really ridiculous I think. We went to Puntang Mountain by our motorcycles, there was 4 motorcycles. We brought 2 tents.
For the third time, it rained again. "What the f**k??" I was really upset, we were in the middle of the way through there, and it rained again, for the third time. But we were not went back, we were keep riding, until we got there in about 11 pm. And yet, it was still raining, we deal with it. We got in by paid Rp. 100.000, about $9. We went to a market and parked our motocycles there. We were waiting until the rain stop, because we can't make a tent if it was still raining.
About 11.30 pm, the rain stopped. So, we walked to the camp area. When we arrived there, there was two guys who came to us and they said "I'm sorry! you can't camp here. This place was booked by our university". But it's okay, we haven't built a tent yet. Afterwards we moved to the other place that we thought it wasn't booked. Then we put our stuff and try to build a tent.
"Wait, who can build a tent?". This is silly, just knew that none of us can build a tent. Without any knowledge, we just tried to figure out one by one frame that will make a tent stand. Not took a long time, we understand how to build it. About 40 minutes, one tent was built. "Yeah! We made it!". So we tried to build the second one. Soon, about three guys came to us and said "We're really sorry for you, this place was booked by our university" and I said in my mind "WTF? we was just built a tent with hard work", we said to them "But, we just built a tent, we knew, there was two guys who told us about this in there, we thought this place isn't your area". The guys said "Yeah, but you have to move, because we have booked this place". And then I said "This is hard but, if we have to move, the middle way is, you guys have to help us to build our tents", Then they said "OK! No problem". So we moved to a place that isn't far. They carried away the tent. And they helped us to built our tents. Now problem solved.
"Yeah! Everythings looks to be all right, now it's the time for a camp fire and dinner". So we made a camp fire, we chatted and we have dinner. That was a lovely night, with much bright stars, and camp fire warmth. We were enjoying the night sky. And soon, about 3pm we slept.
We woke up about 5.30 am and we prayed. Afterwards I drank a cup of coffee. It was really cold, I wear sarung, the Sun has rise, but it hindered by a mountain. But it was okay, still wonderful. So, what were we waiting for? Of course we took many photos, and instagram stories actually.
After took many photos we tidy up our tents and our stuff. Then we went down to the market that we parked there yesterday night, and we saved our stuff there, because we will go to the river. The river is not far from the market, just about 5 minutes walk. We were chillin' there, feels the cold fresh water. Some of my friends was swimming, but I wasn't. Of course we took many photos and instagram stories again. The water in that river is awesome, it make me feel good, so fresh. Then we went back to the market after spend about 30 minutes there.
Finally we went back to my friend's house at 9 am, and arrived there about 10 am. We had a breakfast and rested there for a few hours, then I went back to my house about 1 pm. And I finally arrived at my house at 2 pm.
It was really memorable moment, so awful, terrible, confusing, impose, but it was fun, ridiculous, wonderful, relaxing, and lovely. It was my great experience with my classmates.
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