Right now I'm in my dorm room at Bilkent Universitesi in Ankara. Students are free to arrive anytime now, so I don't know when my roommate will show up. This week we joined in the orientation Turkish class (basically the same stuff as our last Turkish class) and went on a field trip to Ataturk's Mausoleum and the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations.
This is me eating lunch back at Istanbul Teknik. Looks like this meal today is yoghurt soup (gross), schnitzel (with fries), pilav, and kavun (melon).
This next week orientation continues at Bilkent, and our group also starts our own Turkish class and our core class on Turkey.
Here's me and Kelly, who also goes to Grinnell, eating ice cream. Turkish ice cream is very thick, so that they don't do round scoops, they just use a thing more like a shovel to get a flat chunk of ice cream. It's very good, anyway. I'm eating chocolate and banana in this picture.
Of course, they have lots of other ice creams too. They sell cartons in the grocery store, and lots of ice cream bars and stuff sold everywhere.
4 comments:
I'm digging the "word" shirt.
But your food experience (ice cream aside) is making me nervous at the prospect of going abroad.
Do you really need the knife and fork for yoghurt soup and rice??? Loved seeing your smiling face for a change, in addition to the scenery. Love you, mom
dude,
where are you going to be during thanksgiving?
Ankara. You?
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