And here’s my recap of May 2011-2012!
Jen’s a video kinda gal (she made tons of them for her degree in broadcast journalism after all.) So, I thought I could best represent my year in a photo map, since…I like maps?
(click high res to zoom in)
Hope you can read it! If not it’ll remain a secret forever.
and the last photo: May 2012 
-Tas
Instagram Turkey: Camouflage
Blending in here in Turkey these past 8 months has been quite the task. And is still one of my biggest challenges.
-Tas
photo: at Rüstem Paşa Camii
Instagram Turkey: ok Fed Ex
Well that really changes things.
My roommate Sarah was looking up shipping costs from Turkey. I’m not sure how I’m going to get the contents of my freezer home now.
-Tas
Breakfast for dinner is not just a college thing.
Tea & toast with raspberries and clotted cream.
-Tas
*note: Malia and Jen seem to think clotted cream sounds disgusting. Well, imagine the most delicate, luscious absolutely divine bite of the softest cream that melts in your mouth and caresses your tongue. And it won’t even compare. I’M SORRY it has a gross name. Bratwurst sounds pretty nasty to me, but that stuff rocks.
Today’s assignment:
Practice bartering/negotiations. What are some goods and services you have to offer? How much are they worth?
Responses:
- 1-year-old computer, 400 Turkish Lira
- used cellphone, 30 TL
- “Think Lesson,” 1hr 50 TL
- used cosmetic products, 20 TL
- summer home in Akcakoca, 15,000 TL
- My Heart, 1,000,000,000 TL
…and my favorite: - Northstar Textbook: Listening & Speaking, by Pearson and Longman, 10 TL
My students are hilarious.
-Tas
Existential postgrad crisis?
So, it’s bearing down on the one-year mark for some of us postgrads and it’s amazing how the same questions are still running through my mind.
1. What am I doing?
2. Why am I here?
3. Where am I going?
4. How is cheese so damn good?
Over here in Duzce, today has been a day of bitching, wondering, exclaiming, sighing and general worrying about the future.
“Oh, but you’re on a Fulbright in Turkey. Shut up!” is the general response.
I’m allowed to have problems too! Like, what the hell am I going to do when this experience is over?
My parents think I don’t ponder these questions enough, (and that the answer to them all is med school).
Little do they know, these are the questions that rule my life.
-Tas
Watching Beauty & the Beast.
Belle is so relatable.
-Tas
This American Life’s Ira Glass on the secret to creative success.
(cribbed from Brainpickings, which is the best site on the internet)
HEY PGLers. This is for all of you, when you think your work isn’t good enough. CKB, Malia and Jen, you too. And me.
-Tas
A nurse has recorded the most common regrets of the dying, and the top five are:
1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
These are exactly the type of regrets I hope to never have, and don’t yet. If I died tomorrow I would be happy with how I’ve lived.
-Tas
