I cant believe that I have one week left in Istanbul. Before I leave here I will do a blog more about leaving but right now Ill give a little recap of Friday and Saturday and so far for today. Friday (which feels like an eternity ago) was a productive day. We had class from 9-12 as usual and all ate lunch on campus together. Later that afternoon Robyn Kelsey and Miles were meeting up with Said to go to the turkish bath. Those of us not wanting to do that were go...

I cant believe I just have a little over a week left in Istanbul. Where did the time go?! The past two days have been shorter but exhausting. Yesterday was Wednesday as always we start the day off with a bus ride. This bus ride was awful for some reason I started feeling really sick and was just about ready to hop off at the next stop. The ferry ride wasnt much better I just tried to take a short nap on it to see if that helped any...not really. Go figure a day ...

1. I AM EXHAUSTED! so who knows how well this one will be! Yesterday (monday) was class from 9-12. After that was just a relaxing day and then at 5 we all met up with Said and he took us to a park near the Marmara Sea. We made a quick stop at a grocery store to get snacks and drinks and Said bought a volleyball. A few just played around with the volleyball while the rest of us watched relaxed and talked. Pete had bought and Ud here which is a traditional turkish...

First off a warning - for some reason when I load up pictures it puts all of them out of order even the ones that I had already loaded so the new and old are all mixed. Its annoying and I tried to fix it but no luck. I may just start making new albums everytime I load pics up to stop that. But I guess its fine. Alright. Yesterday (saturday) was a relaxing morning and early afternoon. I spent the early part of the day outside with Robyn doing some reading. At 2:...

I have done so much since the last update where do I even begin?! On wednesday we went to 2 mosques and the spice bazaar. The first mosque was the Rustem Paşa Mosque and the second was the Yeni Mosque. This day we were ın the Bazaar Quarter and this is where these mosques are. To get to the Rustem Paşa we had to walk through a lıttle market area and up these stone steps that were almost ın a stone tunnel like. Then once you reach the top of the steps you are...