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January 28, 2005
Turkiye'de Tatilim
Hi! I'm at home! I worked a little late tonight, so I had to ditch Jennifer and Li-Wei for dinner. They were supposed to come over and eat. But we are going to try again for tomorrow night. So...anyway, I'm getting back into my normal Austin routine. I started salsa class again on Wednesday, I went to girls night out on Tuesday, last night I grocery shopped, cooked and slept. Tonight I worked on my Turkish homework...I had to write a paper for my teacher on my trip to Turkey. Here it is. This will show you how bad at Turkish I am. I haven't learned the past tense yet, so I had to write it in the present tense. I also translated it by paragraph (because I'm sending it to Seymen to be corrected, so he needed to know what I was trying to say)... OK well here goes:
Ben Türkye giddiyorum. Ben Seymen'in anne, baba, ve köpek EFE raslayorum. Biz yeşil türbe ve yeşil mosque Bursa'da giddiyoruz. Biz Ulüdağ giddiyoruz. Biz Ulüdağ'da hemen hemen öliyoruz. Biz köpekler göriyoruz. Ben Bursa'da dolma, İskander kebap, cantık pide, ve cigara doreği yiyorum. Ben ayran ve çok çay içiyorum. Ben ayran istemiyorum. Biz aliş veriş merkezi ve Metro'de aliş veriş yapiyoruz. Biz Bursa Müze'de giddiyoruz. Biz bayrama kutlayoruz. Ben Seymen'in kuzen, halalar ve amca göriyorum. Biz Hala Mufara ev'de yiyoruz.
I go to Turkey. I meet Seymen's mother, father and dog EFE. We go to the green tomb and the green mosque in Bursa. We go to the Uludag Mountain. We almost die on the Uludag Mountain. We see dogs. In Bursa, I eat Dolma, iskander kebap, cantik pide, and cigara doregi. I drink ayran and lots of tea. I do not like ayran. We go shopping at the mall and metro. We go to the Bursa Museum. We celebrate ramadan. I see Seymen's cousin, aunts and uncle. We eat at Aunt Mufara's house.
Biz cumartesi İstanbul'ya giddiyoruz. Biz Bebek Otel'de uyuyoruz. Ben bosphorus göriyoruz. Biz haya sofia, grand baazar, ve Blue Mosque gitmiyoruz (kapali idi). Biz Sultanahmet'de ahmet koftesi yiyoruz. Ben ahmet koftesi çok istiyorum. Biz hava alanı giddiyoruz. Ben çok mutluyum. Ben Türkye oturmak istiyorum. Ben Seymen'in Anne ve Baba görmek istiyorum. Ben Türkye çalişmak istiyorum.
We go to Istanbul on Saturday. We sleep at the Bebek Hotel. I see the bosphorus. We do not go to the haya sofia, grand baazar, and Blue Mosque. (it is closed) We eat ahmet koftesi at the Sultanahmet. I like ahmet koftesi very much. We go to the airport. I am very sad. I want to live in Turkey. I want to see Seyme's mother and father. I want to work in Turkey.
Anyway, I have to get going. Jennifer is going to stop by with a movie for me to watch, so I don't have to leave my apartment :-) I'm going to curl up on the couch with a glass of wine, and watch the movie. Maybe break for some Blue Bonnet -- Homemade Vanilla with Strawberries -- Ice cream, at some point. Unfortunately, Seymen is going to sleep soon because he pulled an almost all nighter at work again...so I can't really talk to him. He is really tired. Poor guy.
Anyway...this weekend we're going to make our travel plans for the next month or two. Now, Seymen has more incentive to come visit me in Austin because one of our college friends (Merrick) from RIT, (Who was Seymen's partner in classes, and also did their senior project together) we just found out that he lives in San Antonio! So Seymen will come to visit and see him too :-)
OK! Goodnight all! I hope you have as good as a weekend as I'm planning on having. (Watch a movie, eat ice cream, sleep, sleep in, watch TV, Turkish class, dinner with Jennifer and Li-Wei, eat ice cream, sleep, wake up and move to the couch to watch TV and sleep, and maybe...eventually...unpack my bag from Turkey :-))
Posted by beth at January 28, 2005 10:12 PM