So its been a week since my last post... so what have I been up to you might ask yourself? The answer is rather simple. I'm currently juggling school, food and fun so I imagine that my life here is not too different than anyone in the states. I have been taking little trips around where I live, finding new and wonderful places for food, good sights and the like. I plan on taking a trip this coming weekend, hopefully to put some more pictures up on the blog for those of you who like far away foreign lands :)
Other than that it's been rather quiet around here. I have made a habit of having a weekly dinner, that a friend of mine and I have cooked. It's an experimental meal creation at best. So each week eight or nine people become our culinary guinea pigs for the night. We like to have a lot of soup and bread so that is always a staple. The past two times we have made meals, we have created a concoction consisting of cucumber, eggplant, olive oil and a good amount of salt put into a pan and cooked to a soft deliciousness. I would have to say that our last meal was quite a success. The main course was a bell pepper, bisected laterally, stuffed with seasoned ground beef and bulgur (a wheat rice) and then steamed in a pan. It was quite a hit and we were very satisfied that we weren't absolute failures in the kitchen! A sub-par bottle of wine, and many stories and laughter later, we had quite the successful night.
The week was mainly filled with reading for class, personal research, and trying to find a good place to visit this coming weekend. The weekend was very quiet, spent a while with friends just hanging out, but I've also learned how wonderful it has been just to have some personal time to myself, to study, relax or whatever. I have found that much of my free time has been spent alone. It has been quite refreshing, though I am posed with an interesting dilemma of where to go over my spring break and who to go with. I would love to go to Sharm el sheikh or Dahab in the Sinai, but again, I have no idea who I would go with, and though I'm sure I would have a blast on my own it'd be nice to share the experience with someone. Many people will be heading to Greece which would also be interesting except they are leaving very early in the week/weekend which I just can't do. So there is my plight, I know, how awful, being forced to find a place to go on vacation... haha I have been very blessed for sure.
My current plight however is far more important than spring break plans. This is the fact that my Turkish History class has turned into a lecture where the professor does nothing but review the articles we've been assigned in excruciating detail. I mean I can understand this, but it leaves me with the fact that, if I do as I have been, and going through the readings on my own in detail and being responsible... I'm forced to sit through a painfully boring dissection of each of the works during class... So, to go to class or to do the readings on my own, or to do both and further subject myself to my own academic masochism. Dunno maybe I'm just being too critical, but we're on week three and on only our third article of the class. It's possible that I have just gotten too used to the massive amounts of readings assigned by our dear beloved Dr. Hayes. Maybe I'll never know.
Anyway I have utilized my time in this class that I could have otherwise spent hanging on every self-praising word of my professor, to write this blog post. So I hope you have enjoyed being a part of my glorious distraction! Until next time.
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