Why do we discriminate against February ( Read more... )

...spill every little secret to the whole world or never let anyone into the world of little secrets about yourself?

...be in a secure relationship with someone since high school with every intention of getting married after you graduate or be in the uncertain hands of fate in a seemingly perpetual cycle of flings/short-lived-relationships/singledom ( Read more... )

After elluding death several times in the last 30 years, Benazir Bhutto has been assassinated ( Read more... )

I have one of those huge world maps in my room at home. Its copyrighted in 1990, meaning that it still has the USSR and no satellite states. I didn't really think too much about it till last year when Jess said she was headed to Bosnia, and I knew vaguely where that was but not exactly, and then I couldn't find it on my map. Haha. So obviously, its ( Read more... )

I have so many things on my mind - no idea where to start! All I know is that I have a couple papers and a lot of sight-seeing and shopping and going out to do in the next week and a half, so I better limit myself right now to 20 minutes of LJ-ing...tough.

We had a guest lecturer today in our Islam and the West class to discuss women and Islam. ( Read more... )

I don't even know where to begin! Haha, Turkey is an experience...so hard to describe...but there are a lot of specific stories from the weekend...

So on Friday morning, we headed out to Safranbolu, this city about 5 hours away full of old houses of the Ottoman era. We toured around for a bit, got some safron tea (by far the best tea I've had here ( Read more... )

Update! I'm really bad about this aren't I?

The cliff notes version: HEAT, Indian restaurant, Jewish museum, going to Asia for dinner, getting a smelly fan AFTER the heatwave lol, election madness over (AKP won with 46% - landslide election, as predicted), reading Harry Potter in the heat, visiting the underground cistern (sounds boring but its ( Read more... )

Greetings!!! I'm bored. Now who thought I'd say that while I'm here. Seriously. I mean, I really have no right to be saying I'm bored - its just that we've been so busy and going around from one place to another in the past few weeks that I don't know what to do with all the free time that I've suddenly been granted. So update time ( Read more... )

My apologies - I have been TERRIBLE about keeping people updated and at this point I can't remember what I have or haven't told who...so here goes ( Read more... )

Marhaba!

Means hello in Turkish. Can't say much beyond that yet hahaha...me and a couple girls tried to talk to our cab driver in Turkish today and it was semi-successful hahahaha...sure he still scammed us a bit but hey we tried. I'm getting ahead of myself.

Istanbul is gorgeous. It truly is a mix of east and west. When I first got here my ( Read more... )