at work....
I find it strange that people I am/was friends with are getting married or engaged. I feel like I'm a pretty open minded person, especially after living in a different country, but on this point I just can't understand. I just cannot understand the desire to want to get married right now. Maybe its just my incapability of seeing that as a decision I'll be making anytime in the near or not so near future. I can't even fathom getting married until I'm at least 25 or older. I look foward to the time when I want to make that decision, but right now the idea of getting married scares the shit out of me. AHHHHHHHH!!!!
Anyway. Turkey's pretty awesome so far. I'm living in a dorm with 11 other people in this big room that's somewhat divided for guys and girls. We all share two bathrooms, showers, and a small kitchen. Istanbul is really pretty. It seems like some strange cross between Athens and Beirut. There's this one area near where I live thats closed to cars and its where there's a lot of shopping, bars, and restuarants, and its almost straight from this really nice area in Beirut except that there's actually people there since Istanbul wasn't bombed last summer. But I won't go into the conversation...at least now now. A lot of the buildings though look like buildings in Athens, I suppose its the exchange of Mediterannean culture...and the fact that Greeks and Turks share a common culture due to their intertwined histories.
The jobs going alright. A little slow right now until I learn the ropes and am given more responsibility. But everyone here is really nice. It gets a little lonely sometimes though becuase they speak in Turkish to each other all the time (which of course is completely understandable) but I can't understand a word so I can't participate unless someone is directly talking to me. That's one thing I miss....being able to understand things that are going on around me.
I'm hoping a certain someone is going to visit in August. That would make me really happy...otherwise it'll be a looooooong time until we see each other again.
Anyway. Turkey's pretty awesome so far. I'm living in a dorm with 11 other people in this big room that's somewhat divided for guys and girls. We all share two bathrooms, showers, and a small kitchen. Istanbul is really pretty. It seems like some strange cross between Athens and Beirut. There's this one area near where I live thats closed to cars and its where there's a lot of shopping, bars, and restuarants, and its almost straight from this really nice area in Beirut except that there's actually people there since Istanbul wasn't bombed last summer. But I won't go into the conversation...at least now now. A lot of the buildings though look like buildings in Athens, I suppose its the exchange of Mediterannean culture...and the fact that Greeks and Turks share a common culture due to their intertwined histories.
The jobs going alright. A little slow right now until I learn the ropes and am given more responsibility. But everyone here is really nice. It gets a little lonely sometimes though becuase they speak in Turkish to each other all the time (which of course is completely understandable) but I can't understand a word so I can't participate unless someone is directly talking to me. That's one thing I miss....being able to understand things that are going on around me.
I'm hoping a certain someone is going to visit in August. That would make me really happy...otherwise it'll be a looooooong time until we see each other again.