Hi all, it’s good to be home . Wifi was not reliable there (due to different reason: technical problems at the hotel, too many people using the wifi at the fair venue and my own device is not exactly state of the art.) So I will continue my entries now.
29 Mar 2015
After a sleepless night on the plane and after a morning jog at Istanbul airport (to catch our connecting flight that we almost missed by 3 minutes. We didn’t miss it simply because the flight was delayed. Had it been on time, we would have missed it. Saved by the delay! It felt like taking part in the the Amazing Race!), finally we arrived at Bologna.
My travel companions were: Chris Lie, Sweta and Ira (from Pesona edu). The first problem that we encountered was: How to carry 3 big and heavy boxes filled with the Indonesia catalogues and program books (which were our excess baggage of Rp 10 mio). Unlike the luggage carts that we can use for free here, over there we needed coins to get those carts. And none of us had Euro coins. Thank God the airport officer saw the 4 confused Indonesians and came to our rescue with a cart.
The weather was fabulous! When you breathed, your lung smiles.
After we put our stuffs at the hotel, we went to the fair venue. The rest of the panitia who arrived the day before were already there, busy transforming the empty booth into our base camp for the next four days. Walls were covered with stickers, shelves were put up, books were lined up, tables and chairs were arranged.
The fair venue was soooo big that it took us a while to find Hall 29 (where the Indonesia booth was located). And it felt like an exercise to walk just from one end of the hall to the next, not to mention going to other halls. Never had I seen so many people who take children books so seriously. It really warmed my heart and even though I was miles away from home, I suddenly felt at home.
Till tomorrow.
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