A Special Dinner with Special Guests!

"Oh they're already home!", I said it happily with a smile in my face.

As always, Nicola, Ollie and Erin the baby were at home. Nicola was preparing for the dinner. Ollie was focused on working with his laptop. Erin walking and playing around. Graham was at home but Theresa wasn’t. Then, I asked Nicola about her.

"Hi Nicola, where is Theresa?"

"Oh she has to go to meet someone, but she'll come back before dinner".

I directly went to my room to put my jacket off and my bag in the couch. I thought it would be better if I am in lounge or living room doing my tasks. So I came to the living room, which is just next to the kitchen. There was Erin wanting to play with a book stuff. I was planning to continue my journal actually. But I realized that she seemed very happy playing with me. So that, I played with her.

A small spill from me - I felt a little bit overwhelmed with the journal and tasks that my university gave to me honestly. It made me spending more time to work on the assignments rather than with the family. It made me sad sometimes. But heyy.. in the end of the day, I can balance that out.

Apparently, Ollie, Erin's father knew that I was going to write my journal.

"Erin, go play with the toys here! Let Ari do his work!". When he said that, his tone was not high at all. But somehow it made her a bit upset.

She looked sad, like crying. My heart could not handle that - I did not want to se her like that. I stood up and asked him, "Is she alright?".

"No worries, Ari. She should be fine".

Knowing that, I decided to go inside my room for a while continuing my journal and waiting for dinner. (I knoooww I should have just stayed with Erin and enjoyed the moment. I dunno why I was not thinking about that).

When the dinner was ready to serve, we all gathered to have it. Nicola cooked rice and curry which were very delicious for me.

I honestly took the curry twice because it was so delishhh yummy.

At dinner we all had a very beautiful moment and interesting discussion such as fresh food, Indonesian food, and some fun facts, like Indonesian people can eat noodles and rice at the same time.

Something funny happened after dinner!

The baby Erin tried to say good bye. She also went for kissing my right and left cheeks. But I was so confused because she did that over and over again.

"Oh she tries to kiss you on the lips Ari!", Theresa said. Everyone was laughing and melted with her cuteness. Finally, we took some pictures together.