this is faustine, i want this child, or at least to be able to speak french so i can communicate with her better, seriously, she is a pistol and is still so stinking cute
this is my favorite photo from the tree house photo shoot we had one day, this is alp's personality to a T once he warms up to you, don't be fooled by ece, girl be crazy
view from the table (we are b.a.'s so the waiters always reserved this table for us) where we ate all our meals for two weeks
drinking tea, looking out over the patio onto (unto? lauren or seth) the sea
i made friends with the entertainment people and got ahmet called up on stage to chug rakki, don't know what rakki is? look it up, it's intense
alp dressed up as a pirate, i love this picture but he looks suspiciously like erik which kinda creeps me out
firat, aylien and i at babylon! it was super windy but a cool greek band was playing, i recommend googling babylon to get the full effect of why this is neat, it has an english button at the top
ok...here we go, once again, i will shout out to my photo album for those who want to see more photos, i warn you in advance, i took almost no scenery photos (which is a shame because bodrum {number one vacation spot for british people and cindy crawford} and alacati {wind surf capital of the world, we were there for some of the races} were gorgeous) but if you want to look at two pernicious five year olds, this is the album for you. in other news part of these weeks i want to live again and others i want to forget completly, i don't know how long this list will end up being, it might grow when i've had more time to de-stress and de-funk my mood from "vacation"
*edit-dad called it my workation, i like that, it's fitting
1. i'm having a really hard time thinking of things for a list, which is sad because it's been three weeks, but they were three very busy three weeks and they flew by. the parents were in istanbul two of the three weeks we were on vacation so it was me and interchanging family members with the kids. so basically me. i worked around three hundred hours in the past three weeks. if those hours aren't a resume builder for when i reapply to the school of education, i don't know what is.
2. the water sports guys ride on this little raft thing with a motor to open and close up every day and one day i had a whole hour to myself and so i was sitting on the dock and yusef said i could go along and it was alot of fun. the "boat" felt like i was riding a innertube with a motor and it was interesting to see another part of bodrum that was not the resort. i saw a gypsy boat and he bought me a popsicle. it was one of the highlites of my trip. sad but true.
3. i am thinking of taking spanish classes instead of turkish. i want to learn turkish, but maybe i'll just pick it up. spanish is much more pratical for my time and money. tu hablas esponal? si!
4. i went to a bookstore yesterday and almost all the books were in english. i was in bookie heaven. i bought public enemies (i think what the movie is based on, not sure though) about the untouchables and other early 1900's rebels, and a book called the book of secrets, which sounds suspiciously like a combo of the historian (super excellant book) and the da vinci code (good but not as good as angels and demons or the historian), so i'm excited for both.
5. talking to the boat people when the kids wanted to go kayaking was the closest i came to making a group of friends in turkey since they were the largest group of people my age who spoke english, leaving bodrum for alacati was hard. i had a minor meltdown and cried alot. the house at alacati was gorgeous (ahmets father was actually the architect) and it was surrounded by high stone walls with a pool and large yard full of old wagon wheels and oversized pots and old coppers. it was a beautiful stone house with blue rod iron bars for doors and blue windows and trim with lots of gardens. but the walls made it seem very isolated, especially after the hotel, and the room we were orginally put in was three twin beds crammed in a room, when i was told i would get my own room on vacations and it felt like i left home all over again. i hit the two month mark and was super homesick but then the cousin befriended me, and so did two of his friends and i've talked shayda for the first time!! for like two hours, and danielle, and tyler later tonight, and my dad comes next week so i feel much better now. whew, that was a long one, sorry about that
6. i had a fig for the first time in alacati. firat likes to go to this one cafe so we were sitting drinking tea one night and the owners wife bought some from a gypsy woman and gave them to us. they are delicious! holy cow, however, they make me want to sing "poor unfortunate souls" every time i eat one. i refrain, mostly by humming it quietly to myself
7. i collected really awesome striped rocks in bodrum and i brought them back with and im looking for a cool dish to put them in. i like them lots.
8. i'm going to the grocery store with the kids soon, but i will continue listing later tonight while awaiting my dad on skype
*edit-dad called it my workation, i like that, it's fitting
1. i'm having a really hard time thinking of things for a list, which is sad because it's been three weeks, but they were three very busy three weeks and they flew by. the parents were in istanbul two of the three weeks we were on vacation so it was me and interchanging family members with the kids. so basically me. i worked around three hundred hours in the past three weeks. if those hours aren't a resume builder for when i reapply to the school of education, i don't know what is.
2. the water sports guys ride on this little raft thing with a motor to open and close up every day and one day i had a whole hour to myself and so i was sitting on the dock and yusef said i could go along and it was alot of fun. the "boat" felt like i was riding a innertube with a motor and it was interesting to see another part of bodrum that was not the resort. i saw a gypsy boat and he bought me a popsicle. it was one of the highlites of my trip. sad but true.
3. i am thinking of taking spanish classes instead of turkish. i want to learn turkish, but maybe i'll just pick it up. spanish is much more pratical for my time and money. tu hablas esponal? si!
4. i went to a bookstore yesterday and almost all the books were in english. i was in bookie heaven. i bought public enemies (i think what the movie is based on, not sure though) about the untouchables and other early 1900's rebels, and a book called the book of secrets, which sounds suspiciously like a combo of the historian (super excellant book) and the da vinci code (good but not as good as angels and demons or the historian), so i'm excited for both.
5. talking to the boat people when the kids wanted to go kayaking was the closest i came to making a group of friends in turkey since they were the largest group of people my age who spoke english, leaving bodrum for alacati was hard. i had a minor meltdown and cried alot. the house at alacati was gorgeous (ahmets father was actually the architect) and it was surrounded by high stone walls with a pool and large yard full of old wagon wheels and oversized pots and old coppers. it was a beautiful stone house with blue rod iron bars for doors and blue windows and trim with lots of gardens. but the walls made it seem very isolated, especially after the hotel, and the room we were orginally put in was three twin beds crammed in a room, when i was told i would get my own room on vacations and it felt like i left home all over again. i hit the two month mark and was super homesick but then the cousin befriended me, and so did two of his friends and i've talked shayda for the first time!! for like two hours, and danielle, and tyler later tonight, and my dad comes next week so i feel much better now. whew, that was a long one, sorry about that
6. i had a fig for the first time in alacati. firat likes to go to this one cafe so we were sitting drinking tea one night and the owners wife bought some from a gypsy woman and gave them to us. they are delicious! holy cow, however, they make me want to sing "poor unfortunate souls" every time i eat one. i refrain, mostly by humming it quietly to myself
7. i collected really awesome striped rocks in bodrum and i brought them back with and im looking for a cool dish to put them in. i like them lots.
8. i'm going to the grocery store with the kids soon, but i will continue listing later tonight while awaiting my dad on skype
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