Im getting ready to leave for the airport now. Last night we went out for our group dinner. The place we went to was right by the water and outside. They started off serving us all these different meze (appetizers) and I ended up getting way too full off those that I wasnt able to even touch my actual meal cause i was so full. It was so yummy though. Then we walked the park that we would go to sometimes for Pete to do his one project which was a song he wrote on ...

Today is officially my last day here, and its already half way over. Last night as I said Colleen and I met up for dinner. We decided to go to Kömbe for dinner and then our usual cafe for dessert. I ordered my last tavuk durüm. As always we got something free. They brought us the most delicious salad, it was chopped tomatoes, cucumber, and carrot with some amazing dressing on top. We have no clue what it was other than delicious! After we left there all sad thi...

Tomorrow is my last full day here. Yesterday (friday) we had our last class which ended early because Said's graduation was at 1. The graduation was interesting considering we dont know turkish! So we clapped when they clapped and we stood when they stood. Rather interesting to be there even though Im use to only hearing turkish on a daily basis. After Saids graduation Pete Robyn Brittney and myself went to Taksim for Brittney to take some pics. We then were goin...

The past two days have been very full and very hot. Yesterday and today I have started my day with a street food for breakfast. Different types of fresh ekmek (bread) are really popular for breakfast and are sold all over. I decided to finally try one since Im really not big on bread. Its this giant circle of fluffy bread with some sort of glaze type thing on the top. Its so fresh and soft and yummy. I just put a picture up of it too. Yesterday we went to Fatih w...

One week from today I will be on a plane home. Im not sure yet how I feel about that one. We had class this morning and then met up at 1:30 to go to the Sakirin Mosque, this is the mosque I had mentioned before that we tried going into but a ceremony was going on at the time. This mosque was just built earlier this year and is the first mosque in the world to be designed by a woman. The mosque is on our side of Istanbul, the asian side. We grabbed our usual numbe...