I think i already told you that i was in Florida visiting my friend there (look at previous blog below), right? Actually my trip should be with my husband, but then we wasted his flight tiket because he should start to work a day after our departure. So i decided to call my friend and talked about the possibility to stay at her place instead of being lonely at hotel and of course saving money (actually this is the main issue here hehehe). So i had really a good company and free place to stay, and for sure she gave me a ride to some places.
Her boyfriend picked me up at Hollywood International airport and took me home by a bus. It was my first experince to ride a bus in this country. It was confusing for me to insert $1 bill and coin quarter (25 cents) into the machine. The bus fare is affordable and it is comfy too. Equipped with air conditioning against the tropical hot weather there, and no time delay. Tips for you, before taking bus just prepare one dollar bill and one coin quarter, because they will not give you change for exceeding bill. So here we go, it started to move and i enjoyed the view along the trip. It was beautiful city with its palm trees eveywhere and made me remember the old tv show i always watched when i was stil in Indonesia "Miami Vice". I saw more people take a walk or ride bicycle than in Michigan. I felt more homy! it was really different feeling for me to be in Michigan with all difference weather and geograpical condition and to be here with more or less similar with Indonesia. I saw many Hispanics and some of them were really masculin handsome guys like Antonio Banderas and also sexy beautiful women! In Indonesia they will make a lot of money by becoming an artist. Also there were Haitian black people which is slight different with African America.
Anyway, there was "little" incident happened after we came back from the store. In short our car scratched another car next to us......We just looked each other and didnt know what to do first, and the other lady who own the car tried to call her husband and after that told me that she is gonna ask the police to come. The police!? Oh no....must be bad for us, how much money we have to pay for this damage.....? After about 20 minutes, the police came to us and interviewed us about the incident. She took note and checked the cars. She was nice and not intimidating, even tried to figure out how to fix it (our car door was stuck in the body of the other car). Finally she did good and only left minor scratch on the other car. Phew! Then she told us that she wont put any police record and let my friend insurance company to take care of the damage. Thanks God. Then another thing came up, the lady could not start the car.....the problem came out from the battery. So she asked us help her to buy a jumper cable so that she can start the car by connecting her battery to another car battery. The police was still there with her when we came back, and she started to open the machine and tried to look for where the battery was and i helped her by holding flash light (it was night time). It took about another 5 minutes until she finally called her partner to come over and help her. Then another police came and they worked together until it was started eventually. I was surprised by her seriousness to help us and she was just friendly.
Finally she said "Ok guys make sure you get home safely". "Yep, no more surprise for us" i replied. After we thanked her many times for all help we took off and left us curiousity and of course relief feeling. We discussed about how nice the police was to us. There was no intimidation or bad treatment from her or even didnt asked us for money. And just let us go with secure feeling. My friend wondering if this kind of police is not 'the real' one like police who does investigation for criminal case. Because she saw the police car was written "Police Service Aide". Out of curiosity i searched it and finally found out that Police Service Aide serves non-enforcement support that help police officer to have more time to perform law enforcement activities.* So basically they are available to help people to feel safe and secure by providing service to deal with the trouble like what they have done, fixed the car. Thanks Maam....! You have really great job to help people like us. I hope someday in my country the dream will come true as slogan "Kami siap melayani anda".
*taken from http://www.cityofaventura.com/pdfs/JobDescription/PSA.pdf
dedicated to Police Service Aide of Aventura city, Florida
Her boyfriend picked me up at Hollywood International airport and took me home by a bus. It was my first experince to ride a bus in this country. It was confusing for me to insert $1 bill and coin quarter (25 cents) into the machine. The bus fare is affordable and it is comfy too. Equipped with air conditioning against the tropical hot weather there, and no time delay. Tips for you, before taking bus just prepare one dollar bill and one coin quarter, because they will not give you change for exceeding bill. So here we go, it started to move and i enjoyed the view along the trip. It was beautiful city with its palm trees eveywhere and made me remember the old tv show i always watched when i was stil in Indonesia "Miami Vice". I saw more people take a walk or ride bicycle than in Michigan. I felt more homy! it was really different feeling for me to be in Michigan with all difference weather and geograpical condition and to be here with more or less similar with Indonesia. I saw many Hispanics and some of them were really masculin handsome guys like Antonio Banderas and also sexy beautiful women! In Indonesia they will make a lot of money by becoming an artist. Also there were Haitian black people which is slight different with African America.
Anyway, there was "little" incident happened after we came back from the store. In short our car scratched another car next to us......We just looked each other and didnt know what to do first, and the other lady who own the car tried to call her husband and after that told me that she is gonna ask the police to come. The police!? Oh no....must be bad for us, how much money we have to pay for this damage.....? After about 20 minutes, the police came to us and interviewed us about the incident. She took note and checked the cars. She was nice and not intimidating, even tried to figure out how to fix it (our car door was stuck in the body of the other car). Finally she did good and only left minor scratch on the other car. Phew! Then she told us that she wont put any police record and let my friend insurance company to take care of the damage. Thanks God. Then another thing came up, the lady could not start the car.....the problem came out from the battery. So she asked us help her to buy a jumper cable so that she can start the car by connecting her battery to another car battery. The police was still there with her when we came back, and she started to open the machine and tried to look for where the battery was and i helped her by holding flash light (it was night time). It took about another 5 minutes until she finally called her partner to come over and help her. Then another police came and they worked together until it was started eventually. I was surprised by her seriousness to help us and she was just friendly.
Finally she said "Ok guys make sure you get home safely". "Yep, no more surprise for us" i replied. After we thanked her many times for all help we took off and left us curiousity and of course relief feeling. We discussed about how nice the police was to us. There was no intimidation or bad treatment from her or even didnt asked us for money. And just let us go with secure feeling. My friend wondering if this kind of police is not 'the real' one like police who does investigation for criminal case. Because she saw the police car was written "Police Service Aide". Out of curiosity i searched it and finally found out that Police Service Aide serves non-enforcement support that help police officer to have more time to perform law enforcement activities.* So basically they are available to help people to feel safe and secure by providing service to deal with the trouble like what they have done, fixed the car. Thanks Maam....! You have really great job to help people like us. I hope someday in my country the dream will come true as slogan "Kami siap melayani anda".
*taken from http://www.cityofaventura.com/pdfs/JobDescription/PSA.pdf
dedicated to Police Service Aide of Aventura city, Florida
Oi, Tri, ini dewi lestari, psiko ugm 95. Gimana cara mengontakmu? Ternyata bener berita kw di amrik, ya
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