The Diplomatic Tips

Exactly two weeks ago, I grabbed my old job I used to do when I was a student, that is giving tourists a ride. This old job was kind of for refreshing.and not really bad to fill the time. Here the trip began. There were six motorbikes, six drivers, and six Germans as one big family taking the tour to Prambanan temple and the surrounding small ones. I got the head of the family who is tall and big on the belly, OMG. At first I called him Mr. Pizza with a laugh from both of him and me, which then an hour later he corrected his name as Dieter. It was really funny. Then I found out that he is a German diplomatic and once lived in Indonesia in the Soeharto reign. To him I got some questions since becoming diplomatic used to be my dream. One question I love the answer was "What specific skills should a diplomatic have?" and his answer was "NICE, OPEN, and TOLERANT", which is actually so simple, but frankly so meaningful. Yes, he is that nice humble person who ever faced and solved some difficult cases in the fall of Soeharto. And in the next two years, he will be an ambassador in which he wants Indonesia, Thailand, or Vietnam as the country to be in charge for. The last sentence as saying good bye he told me was "When you have become a diplomatic, you have to visit me in Berlin". "Yes sir, I will" I said.

Thak you, Mr. Dieter, for the tips and sorry for calling you Pizza.

Dithe