I live in Turkey
The day before we went to Eskişehir we visited Pinar her family. You probably know Char. Pinar her sister was someone like her. She predicted our future. We were astonished from what she could tell about us. Keep this in mind: I will marry earlier than JR and Arne. More important for me was to meet her family. This visit was gold for me, I loved it.
Now I am in Eskişehir. The 5 hour train ride from Istanbul was enjoyful. There was a bar in the train. Here I met a theater-maker and a director of a foreigner prison. They couldn’t speak English, but we spoke for an hour using body language and simple words. Afterwards we exchanged e-mail addresses. In Eskişehir we can go out together sometime. Things like this are happening every day many times. Too much happens in a short time. It’s overwhelming.
I noticed my Turkish develops rapidly. After half a year of studying language learning, I created a talent for learning a language. Turkish people are jaw-dropped-on-the-floor about my Turkish language-skills. And I am here only for one week now!
Yesterday we visited an interior architect. They need a new logo and a website. I also met a Turkish documentary maker, Hasan Özgen. He is international famous. I can contact him for internship. I will see about that, because I, Jaap-Ruurd, Arne, Fiko and Pinar want to run internship abroad in the same city, in the same country. We are arranging this now. (What are you saying? You want to go abroad for 5 months again when you are back in the Netherlands?) Yes. I want. I was very happy in the Netherlands, but I am even more happy abroad.
Every day we meet new people whom we go along with. For example, this afternoon we go along with Fiko and her roommates, tonight we go out to eat with our new roommates and after that we go get to know Pina and Aga (Erasmus students) better. But meeting people also means that one time you need to say goodbye. My best friend Pinar went back to Holland yesterday. I will miss her so much. Before she left we promised that we would meet again sometime (internship!).
I will get accepted in the Anadolu University. The campus is huge. It has an airport, cinema’s, club’s, theather’s, shopping center… it would be a pitty if it would get burned down. So, they’d better accept me. I will arrange this, I was told that it will be fine.
EDIT: it's all arranged and done now! And my permanent address has changed!
Hoşçakal (see you)!
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