Now that I'm able to understand more, my host family and I have been talking about more long-term, serious, life-choices and plans. The context is future. At first it was my aim in life. then my ideal future living situation and now marriage ( Read more... )

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Here is where I go a lot, and the people I see there, filan fılan.

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Finally prictures from the family trip to Antalya!

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I can see why people want to go to America. Because that's where all the origanals and western ideals come from. Everything from there is idolized and imitated here. It's like there's no escape. But even out of the city and it's wannabe enterprises, it's partiotic industries capitolizing, or trying to, on american themes in business, even in the ( Read more... )

On Saturday night I left with my Baba's family and their friends to Antalya. Fatma Halla (halla=father's sister), Nadide Halla and her husband Atilla Enişte (enişte=father's brother) and son Erkin, Dilek Halla, Ülker Teyze (Teyze=mother's sister, but that's what you call a woman who is around your parent's age and you are familiar with) and her ( Read more... )

My Anne made a feast for a bunch of my friends to come over. Mostly other exchange students but also some of my turkish friends.


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For people that miss my face:

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This wednesday I went to Konya with my Baba's sister Fatma Halla (Halla means 'my baba's sister'). We took a tour bus there and back (about an eleven hour bus ride each way), and on the way saw the tomb of Nasreddin Hodja. Hodja lived around the 1200's and was simply a clever wise man; if you call someone your hodja, that means they are more ( Read more... )

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