Wednesday, December 24, 2008

TOURIST FROM RUSSIA IN PANYABUNGAN

The Russian tourist in my town. When I was standing in front of my house, suddenly a couple of tourist were passing on the street in front of my house. They were consist of a man and a woman. A man about 25 years old, and a woman about 35 years old. They went a walk very quickly. When they looked at me, I remembered that my daughter was very like to talk English to the tourist something like that. In that time, a man of them said to me, "Assalamu alaikum".
I was very surprise to hear it. Because I felt very seldom to find a Muslim tourist in my town. Sure, I answered, "Alaikum Salam,"
Assalamu alaikum means 'peace be upon you'
Alaikum salam mean 'peace be upon you too'.
When they said that sentence without stop their journey, I called my daughter to my house. I told her that there were the tourists just went away. In that time, my uncle Mr Kamarudin was coming to my house. He is a maniac English too. When Mr Kamarudin and my daughter had known about them, we went before them. We was late about 2 minutes. We found the tourists again about 1 Kms after my house. It is around pasar Baru or the place of Pertamina, Panyabungan, Indonesia.
When we called them, they stopped and we talk to them again. They answered my question. They said that they are not Muslim. A man wass not a husband, and a woman was not a wife, but they went together in the night time in my country. I really felt surprise, because a man and a woman without marrying is forbidden to go together in the night time in my area. The even told me that they want to make a camp when they wanted to sleep later. Whenever they will feel tired, they will make camp and sleep inside it, althought in a forest area. They really difference with Indonesian people. Maybe they never think that there is many snakes in the forest.
I didn't ask to stay in my house, because it is not good idea in my village if a couple of man and woman will sleep together without marrying. It is not suitable with my Culture in Mandailing. I talked with them about 10 minutes, same with Mr Kamarudin, and Putri or my daughter talked to the woman with the same time. A woman from Russia that we found was very kind in our meeting. But our accounter only about 10 minutes. We had felt tired to talk being stand up. When our talking has finished, they went together, and we went to our house, and maybe never meet again forever.

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