I had a lovely Thanksgiving meal tonight. Bulent and I were invited to a friends, where there was great food, good conversation and good friends. After I came home I got a call from my parents on Skype. They had…
Month: November 2009
I have hosted Thanksgiving for the last three years. This year is my first year that I am not hosting. Because I lived in San Diego and my whole family lives on the East Coast Thanksgivings usually included close friends…
Life is progressing here in Turkey. I finally feel as if we are settling in. We have bought a car. We have recovered from H1N1. Life is good. Last night to celebrate our auto purchase we went out to an…
Seriously self-loathing. Right. Now. So I have no money. I have money but I don’t *have* money. I have a bank account, I have a salary, hell… I got a bonus for Turkish Teachers’ Day. But I still don’t have…
Pretty lazy actually. Tonight I had McDonalds delivered to my door. They do that here. All the fast food places deliver. They have little mopeds weaving their way all around the city delivering Big Macs and Whoppers to the lazy…
I have not been writing lately. As usual I have an excuse. I have been sick. I developed a fever in Antalya which morphed into nightly fevers and a nasty cough. Some of the kids in the first row of…
Last week school was cancelled in Ankara due to Swine Flu precautions. So we went to Antalya in southern Turkey on the coast of the Mediterranean. We had a fantastic time, though I did come down with a fever—though not…