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October 06, 2004
Pumped
I'm so pumped up right now, I can't do any more work!!! I am going to try out the Salsa dancing class tonight (so I'll have to write and let you know how that goes)...but I had a good day today. I went to lunch with Shelly and Elizabeth at Olive Garden and had the wonderful soup, salad and breadsticks meal. It was delicious. This week, Steph and I are supposed to go to the scrapbooking store that is close by, which will be fun and motivating! I have to start on mine and Seymen's grand canyon vacation pictures :-) And I have decided that I need to take more pictures and make an on going scrapbook and journal of my time in Texas - However long I'll be here.... :-)
Seymen has been really really good to me this week too. He's been so busy at work...working every day from 10am until 4 or 5am. Poor guy is so tired, and their deadline just got pushed to this coming Monday (pushing it this coming Sunday...which semi-stinks because he'll have to work Sunday...but I'm kind of excited too because I like going to work with him, and hanging out and playing games. All his co-workers are really fun, and then we go out and eat and stuff. I'll probably get to see my dad that way too.) Anyway, he's been EXCELLENT about helping me practice my Turkish. I just started speaking to him in Turkish for the first time since my lessons in Texas have started. He said that he was definitly impressed. I'm much better than I was before, and I have been able to make my own sentances. I was even able to have him ask me a question and I answer it. My first dialog with him was as follows:
Seymen: "Kac kitap okuyor musun?" (How many books have you read)
Me: "Ben bir kitap okuyorum" (I have read 1 book).
Last night he practiced with me for about an hour or an hour and half, asking me questions, and answering my questions...Although he did get kind of mad when I started making sentances that wern't "right". Like I asked:
"Seymen, sen kolay musun?" (Seymen, are you easy?)
He got kind of annoyed at those questions...and then when I made him praise me or scold me in turkish when I got something right or wrong...
"Cok iyi, Beth! Cok iyi!" or "Cok kotu Beth, Cok Kotu" (Very good Beth, Very Good! or Very Bad Beth, Very bad)
Anyway...my turkish is definitly improving...and Seymen was impressed with the progress that I made since my previous classes. And he's still nice when I hang up and he says the not fun part of saying goodbye ("Allahasmarladuk") and I get to say the fun part ("Gule Gule!")
Posted by beth at October 6, 2004 06:37 PM