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My family’s hobby is travelling. We always go for vacation at least twice in a year. Since my mom is the key to plan the cheap vacation, I often saw her planning our vacation and saw the paper of her planning contained the places we would visit and the budget for the vacation. We need to prepare those all because having a good quality of vacation is a must without spending too much money. When I was child I did not help her for planning because I knew nothing about internet, good places to go, and other recommendations. I did not know where to get those all because I was too young. I only sat while she was searching. Til the day I got a new phone when I was 14 years old. I started looking for the way to get more information from internet. It was fun for me because I am able to know the places I will visit earlier. So I can plan my own activities there. In 2014, my father had to move to Sumatra Island for a job. So he stayed there for a long time. My mom planned to go there for visiting him together with me and my little sister. She booked the flight tickets a month before our arrival. The next day after booking the domestic tickets, I opened my laptop and looked for a flight promotion on a low-budget airline website. I preferred to use laptop for searching instead of my phone because I was able to scroll down easily and looked the bigger screen. My phone was too mini for me to see a big page so I needed to scroll to the left and right for many times. That low-budget airline website was an easy website to use. I always checked their updates every day. Even once every one hour during my school breaks. Til the day I found a facebook user spreading update news about low budget travel. I was on the group and kept updating about the promotion. When I was at home on holiday, I opened my phone and saw there was an update about low-budget airline promotion. I opened my laptop and picked a possible date to travel. Of course during my summer holiday. I remembered that we would visit Sumatra Island next month. So I told my mom about the promotion. She asked me where I get the news and I explained her about that. So finally we booked new flight tickets for my dad, my mom, me, and my little sister to go to Kuala Lumpur. I got around 100,000 rupiah for the return ticket for one person. It’s about only $7 USD from Padang to Kuala Lumpur and Kuala Lumpur to Padang. So fantastic because our domestic tickets were more expensive than our international tickets. Before the d-day, my mom teached me about planning a low-budget travel. She also teached me how to make the plan A, plan B, plan C, or other plans. I did not forget to book a very cheap hotel too. I got $5 USD for one night. It was a jackpot for me. Til the day we arrived in Padang and the next day we went to Kuala Lumpur. The plane was nice and the services were good. The flight was also on time as the time they put on the ticket. I did not expect a good hotel because I thought it was too cheap so I did not thing the facilities would be good. But I was wrong. The hotel was so nice. We also got breakfast in the morning. The food were good too for me. My mom was thankful to me to give a good recommendation. I told her “I’m a Paparazzi” because I am able to know many things. She said “Sorry, this is also me who planned the trip. So can I call myself Mamarazi ?”