I attended conference in Jogja this December, and since my professor told me that it's okay if I wanna take a time to go home (Jogja only several hours by car from my hometown), I took the chance (anyway, it's been 3 years that I'm not home...). Yuki, one of my Japanese friends, happened to be in Jogja, and she asked whether it was okay for her to visit my home. My family said it's okay as long as she can stand the mosquitos (there are loads of them in my home :-) ), so when I finished the conference and went to Sidoarjo, she came along.
Yuki quickly established good relation with my family (because her blood type is O? :-) ). However, Dinda, my 4 year-old niece, cried the first time she met her. Mbak Ope, Dinda's mother, told me that Dinda was jealous that Yuki came to our house. She tought that if Yuki's around, I'll spend more time with Yuki than with her.
However, it only took less than an hour for Yuki to win Dinda's heart. I just can't explain, there's something about her that make you quickly like her. Even my sister said that even though she just met Yuki for a couple of days, she felt like she'd already known her for a long time. May be it's just simply that Yuki's quite straightforward, that my family quickly trust her, and consequently, like her.
Anyway, the next day when Dinda visited my home, the first thing that she asked was, "Where's aunt Yuki?"
Seemed like her heart was really stolen... :-)
