THE ROCK

CAMPUS

           It was morning and it was time for me to rush to the bathroom to take a shower and not forget to brush my teeth. Arriving in front of the bathroom, there were already queues like at a gas station. Time was running, the last minutes finally I didn't take a shower, just brushed my teeth and washed my face until it was white and clean with a face wash in TV commercials. Finally, after putting on my clothes and carrying my bag which no longer bears the weight with a little content, I ran like a ninja ninja in an anime movie. Luckily, the boarding house is close to campus, try it if it's far, imagine wasn't. Wush has arrived and during the campus orientation period, the seniors on campus are already in front of the fence like guards ready to pounce on those who arrive late.

            "Eh, you know, where are you running?" said the senior of campus.

            "I go to campus here." I said.

            "Late,,,, punishment first push up." said the other senior of campus.

            "Oh my gosh, it's the first time I've entered, really I'm doing push up." I said again.

            "Yes, as a late punishment" the senior girl joined in.

              My mind was talking "it's too bad that I haven't eaten yet and my stomach is rumbling, a sign that the tapeworms are starving, waiting for food and being told to do push ups"…Finally, after doing what my senior told me to do, I went straight to my group.

             It turned out that the seniors of campus had divided the team into three people and didn't expect the person who was in the same boarding house as me, he was also in the group with another guy, let's call him Roy. I didn't expect that Roy also likes music and when we took a break we talked about many things about music, apparently Roy is used to Bass guitar. So the idea came to me to make a band with three members.

          "Eh, what if we make a band of three, who knows it could be like Greenday or the Muse" I said fieryly without any burning smoke.

         "Wow, it looks fun," Andi said, followed by Roy's repeated nod of approval.

         "Then what if we have band practice tonight, because there is an announcement by seniors that at the end of the campus orientation there will be a farewell event where drama, music, dance, poetry will be performed"

          "Well, the idea is that we just register first," Andi said and then the three of us registered to participate in performing arts at the farewell event as a band. Other friends noticed that our group was the first to register for the art show. "Looks cool isn't our band going to perform" I thought to myself.

          "Hey, you're the one who was late, right?" the senior who wrote my name on the paper and the names of my friends as the performers spoke

          "Yes " I said

          "Try as punishment, let's sing" the senior said that followed by the applause of friends and shouts of shouts

          "The punishment was already before," I said.

          " Do this punishment again " followed by the senior girl of campus who was in front of the fence.

          Andi and Roy then retreated back to their seats while I was still standing in front of new friends who somehow I started to feel my sweat dripping like tears from someone who was in love.

      "It's really sour" I said slowly.

     "What sour? " the senior guy shouted and saw me.

      "No, no, I mean, I smell like sour, because I'm just washing my face," I blurted out and only realized after I said it. My friends and seniors of campus started laughing out loud laughing at me who was standing up.