She was somebody from another major in forest faculty of Bogor Agricultural University . We were in the same group for a field practice required by university in order to complete our study. I’ve never knew her before, even in the preparation week I’ve never have a real chat with her. After the preparation week, I went to Malaysia and stay there for about two weeks to attend a convention held by UNEP, so yes I was skipping the field practice for two weeks and replaced it with compiling a preliminary report for a village listed in the villages list for field practice.

Anyhow…… I was joined the group and enjoying the warmth and togetherness of group work, and have a chance to know her better. Who is she??, her name is Yulia Rahma Fitriana, we knew her as Ana…

Ana is a very intelligent girl, passionate, well planned….she was compiling her thesis while we were have no description on what were we going to do for the thesis, she was teaching at Lampung University while we were stressed with our thesis, she always one step ahead from of all of us.

After her graduation its very rare for us to meet, she was in lampung and I was still struggling with my thesis….ffiiiuuuhh….but we always try to meet at least in the occasion of Iedul Fitri, we visited our field practise village and spent one whole day there, even she was in a hurry to go to Jakarta and then to Lampung, back to her duty…, and I was leaving to Germany for a short study as an exchange student…., after that we were never meet again…until one day in the university after I was finishing my study and received at a master program in Europe, I was very happy to hear that she also going to go to Europe for her master study….for me it was very cool to know that I will be having a chance to reunite with someone whose spent almost two months in the same house for the field practise…sharing a lot of fun, stresses, everything…. in some other part of the world and far away from home….

And that’s not all, her passion to keep on going on her academic career made me ashamed of my self when I was loosing the spirit to keep on going. She spent her summer in Japan (Utsunomiya University, Tochigi, Japan) for a field practise and received in the same university for her postgraduate study even long way before she finished her master study which will be finalised with a research in Laos…cool indeed.. What a passion……

Currently she’s studying in Centre National d’Etudes Agronomiques des Régions chaudes (CNEARC), Montpellier, France. And last year she was becoming France Indonesian Student Association president after previously becoming the vice president. She was very active, have meetings in Berlin, The Hague, Paris…., and we were reunited in the last summer when she was visiting The Hague, I was very happy to meet her…and still that’s not all, she write books….oh my goodness…what a great passion……

And few days ago, she made me re-think about phd study….., the life still goes….and so the inspiration from her….my friends, my inspiration……………

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