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Last Sunday one of my cousins got married, so we went to her parents’ house where the wedding party was held.  We went to the party together with the other cousins since we didn’t really know where exactly the place was; since we did not get any invention card of the wedding. The entire thing that we knew was the wedding was held in Tandem Hilir; her parents’ house, that’s all. And we never know where Tandem Hilir is, because we never visited her parents’ house before.

We off from Medan to start our journey for that day were at 8am. Before we went to the wedding party, we called another cousin who had already arrived at the venue of the party in order to get the right directions. He said that Tandem Hilir is about 35km away from Medan. He gave us some clues to recognize the place. After the call we start our journey for that Sunday.

When we off from Medan to go the wedding party, we were really happy. We sang a lot of songs. We prepared much food for the journey too. While we sang we ate food. It was a very happy day for a journey. We observed the road that we passed and commented on it. And then we saw there was a big gate said that “Welcome to Tandem Hilir” we were really happy; finally we had arrived at Tandem Hilir. But wait, where’s the wedding party? We didn’t know the exact place. Then we called our cousin again and he said that to follow the road until we arrived at intersection that had a sign with “young coconut leaf” in the left side. But what a surprised, on the entire road we had passed there were so many “young coconut leaf” at the intersection. So, we decided to go on and finally we got lost. We got lost in the sugarcane plantation; all the things that we could see were only the sky and the sugarcane. It was at 12.35pm, the weather was unfriendly. The temperature was about 34C degrees, it was really hot even though we were in the car. We called our cousin again to ask the right direction and then he said that we have to go to Tandem Hilir II and he advised us to ask the locals about that Tandem Hilir II and he will pick us at the intersection of Tandem Hilir II. We were almost 2 hours in that sugarcane plantation.

We asked the locals about Tandem Hilir II and finally we met with our cousin who picked us up; and finally we arrived at the wedding party place. We arrived at 2.30pm.

It’s a long tiring journey.