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[caption id="attachment_1252" align="alignnone" width="150"] New Year's Eve at Seattle's Space Needle[/caption] Indira Pranabudi is an Indonesian student studying computer science at Green River Community College in Auburn, Washington. Another year has passed and we have now welcomed the year 2013. 2012 was personally a very memorable year for me; I started a new life in a place I’ve never been before, met new and wonderful friends, learnt new things and adapted to a completely different culture. It was sad to part with 2012, but since 2012 was such a wonderful year, 2013 will definitely be better.
"Cheers to the New Year!"
Like any other seventeen year old, I felt that I just had to celebrate the New Year with something special. My mother, father, little sister and brother happen to be in town, so my New Year celebration was an exceptionally memorable event. We have been visiting cities around the west coast for the past two weeks—from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, then to Grand Canyon, then to Phoenix, and lots of other places—and since the Space Needle is known to have one of the best fireworks in town, we planned our ‘road trip’ especially so that we would make it back in Seattle just in time for the fireworks. We left our hotel at about 11pm, and already the streets were packed with people from all around Washington. There were moms and dads cradling their babies, old men and women with blankets ready just in case they feel too cold, young adults in suits and dresses, photographers with their cameras and tripods ready, and not to forget the adolescents with a bottle of beer in their hand. Everybody had a wide grin on their faces and we were all in good spirits. This will sound cliché, but it truly felt like one massive family; it was as if everyone had the same thing in mind, “Let’s just forget about the fiscal cliff, the bills, the university applications, personal statements, or the fact that the temperature is in the mid-30s and just celebrate the New Year!”
