This is probably the last news you'll get from me in Türkiye.
I'm back in about ten days, which is very strange but also very good and a little sad.


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Well well well,
many photographs and where to start?

Ok, the first ones are from Bursa, the end of the silk road and the home of Türkiye's ski mountain, Uludağ.
After that there are very few (due to me forgetting a full roll of 36 in the hotel room) photographs of the Black Sea.
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Since my last update I've been on two rotary trips. One to Bursa, the end of the silk road, and one to the Black Sea. For the Bursa trip all we had to pay for was the bus there and back because the rotary there found host families to put us up for three nights. Bursa is the fourth biggest city in Turkey and is much greener than İzmir. A lot of ( Read more... )

Cause time is flying.

I went with my history class to a little village called Kula. It has natural fizzing mineral water and old colorful houses and people.


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And, the Manisa mesir macunu festivalı! This is an annual festival in Manisa where the İmams (an imam is the head of the mosque) throw mesir macunu (turkish viagra, a sticky candy with lots and lots of spices) off the roof of the mosque. People come from all over the country (and world, hence, myslef) to catch mesir macunu blessed with fertility ( Read more... )

Finally some pictures from İstanbul.
It was really cold, so I didn't take very many (because the weather affects my photographic skill?), so they stayed in my camera until I took some more pictures and developed them all.
The 'other pictures' are from a horse race I went to with my family one day. They're the two at the end.


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Philip and I were in school talent show that was a benefit for MS. We played 'It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry' by Bob Dylan.

( There were some picutres. Are. CLICK. )

This just BLOWS my mind.
My two mothers meeting on the other side of the world without me, reassuring me that it actually IS one planet.


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My birthday was a good event. I didn't expect anything from it really, and was actually feeling kind of melancholy on the morning of, not wanting to switch ages. At school though, my good friends in school brought me in a cake with candles lit right in the middle of biology class. They asked me if I knew they were going to do it, because apparently ( Read more... )