First Day in Turkey
İt went by very fast.. the plane ride too. İ met two exchange students - Trevor and Amanda but İ don´t much like Amanda. The İstanbul airport sucked and my bags are lost. İstanbul looked cool flying over - big city with big houses and mosques. But Ankara is cooler. İt has all the big buildings and mosques only it is surrounded by what looks like desert and hills. City and desert. No pictures İ have seen prepared me for this. We drove through the city. Zeynep, Melike, their dad´s friend, and İ got Chinese food but İ wasn´t hungry.. Greeting people with the kisses on the cheeks is cool - your face fat touches. İ`m worried about learning Turkish. İ wish İ would have made an effort before İ got here. Trevor already knows tons of Turkish and his school is in Turkish and he wants to study it every day. My school is in French and İ don`t have the background of it and İ don`t have a phrasebook.
Turkish words İ know:
Hello = Merhaba
Three = Üç (but also means something dirty)
Plum = Erik
How are you = Nasılsın
Eighty-one = seksen bir.. but it doesn`t really sound as dirty when said.
That`s how İ learned the number one.. they said *something something* bir, so that is how İ learned the number one. That`s how a language is learned, İ think, but hopefully İ won`t have a story behing how İ learned each and every Turkish word. By the way to call home it`s 001, İ can`t call though because İ didn`t want to leave a message in front of people. İ can`t wait until İ stop feeling like a guest. They bought me toiletries but İ don`t know what to do with them so İ will leave them on my dresser. Brushing your teeth sans water is stupid. İ can`t take my vitamins or sleep with my satin pillowcase.. And İ don`t know what to do with my laundry. They bought me shampoo and no conditioner OH GOD. İ hope in about a week İ am settled in. Probably when their mother returns home. Their house is SO cool. İ`m sitting on my very own balcony right now writing this and a while earlier İ could hear Turkish music in the background. There is another balcony in the back. And the view is gorgeous. My room is pink and very tidy. The window and door to the balcony stay open and İ think a bird will fly in. İ have orientation tomorrow that İ get to go to with the zero clothes that İ have. İ wish İ was like Trevor and able to talk to EVERYONE. He`s one of those people that`s easy to talk to kind of like Elise because they do all the talking and you just have to feed them a little big. He talks to people he meets on planes and even the Turkish stewardesses for fuck`s sake. He`s excited to go to the orientation to meet everyone and İ`m just not.. İ think İ`m good at hanging around just one person because when Amanda came and it made me look like İ`m just following them around because of the decreased talking on my part when a third party is added. He`s going to London to the oriental and African Studies school to major in Japanese studies. What the hell, right? How random. İt`s weird to think that İ`m sitting on a balcony in Turkey wearing "house shoes". Oh and İ spent about twenty minutes of my life in Amsterdam.