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Turk-o-Log: Istanbul - 1
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Leslie takes her first timid steps out of the former Communist bloc to explore a land of strong coffee, ancient ruins, agglutinative grammar and streets named after Atatürk. Monday, July 27, 2009. Yikes, it’s been a week since Istanbul and I still haven’t written about it! If you’re in Istanbul to party. Wow, this is already super long, so I will continue with a log of what we actually saw and did in my next post! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Addendum to yesterdays post.
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Turk-o-Log: May 2009
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Leslie takes her first timid steps out of the former Communist bloc to explore a land of strong coffee, ancient ruins, agglutinative grammar and streets named after Atatürk. Wednesday, May 27, 2009. Seurat the Dot, or Dorky Language Post Number One (of Many). What's with that dot on the first letter of İstanbul in your last post, Leslie? Well, I'm glad you asked! I am not clear on this point because my Turkish textbook says the former – pronounce it like beet. Anyway. İf İstanbul were written without...
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Turk-o-Log: Today's Special
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Leslie takes her first timid steps out of the former Communist bloc to explore a land of strong coffee, ancient ruins, agglutinative grammar and streets named after Atatürk. Friday, July 10, 2009. The CLS program through which I came to Turkey is really awesome. Not only do we go on all sorts of trips (next week: ISTANBUL! Also, we get free lunch! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Crack rice and other delicacies. Things we shouldnt tell people from other countri. My Turkish Ki...
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Turk-o-Log: Ticks and other devious creatures
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Leslie takes her first timid steps out of the former Communist bloc to explore a land of strong coffee, ancient ruins, agglutinative grammar and streets named after Atatürk. Tuesday, July 14, 2009. Ticks and other devious creatures. I did not go back to the hospital tonight for my second bloodletting to see if I have hemorrhagic fever. I laugh in the face of danger! In standard Turkish) is istakan,. Borrowed from Russian stakan. July 15, 2009 at 11:57 AM. July 19, 2009 at 9:00 AM. Yeah, there are like 8 ...
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Turk-o-Log: June 2009
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Leslie takes her first timid steps out of the former Communist bloc to explore a land of strong coffee, ancient ruins, agglutinative grammar and streets named after Atatürk. Monday, June 29, 2009. Ankara, city of dreams. I can sort of understand. If you’re comparing to Istanbul, can you expect Ankara to really compete? I’ve been told even New York can’t compete with Istanbul (but that’s apples and oranges, maybe? AND on Thursday we’re going to Cappadocia and Konya! Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Turkish hourgla...
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Turk-o-Log: In which a tick mistakes me for its dinner and reaches a sad end.
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Leslie takes her first timid steps out of the former Communist bloc to explore a land of strong coffee, ancient ruins, agglutinative grammar and streets named after Atatürk. Sunday, July 12, 2009. In which a tick mistakes me for its dinner and reaches a sad end. I do appreciate their reassurances, though, because if I had. Been worried about hemorrhagic fever I would have been REALLY scared. (Do yourself a favor - don't google it. It's gross.). Who knows. Turkish is confusing. Have to get tested in any c...
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Turk-o-Log: Things we shouldn't tell people from other countries
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Leslie takes her first timid steps out of the former Communist bloc to explore a land of strong coffee, ancient ruins, agglutinative grammar and streets named after Atatürk. Sunday, July 19, 2009. Things we shouldn't tell people from other countries. Pretty dirty. Why do we do that? It's also been pretty hard to explain to my host mom that pork products are delicious and nutritious. The face she makes reminds me of the face some Americans made when I said that they eat horses in Iceland. In which a tick ...
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Turk-o-Log: Crack rice and other delicacies
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Leslie takes her first timid steps out of the former Communist bloc to explore a land of strong coffee, ancient ruins, agglutinative grammar and streets named after Atatürk. Thursday, July 23, 2009. Crack rice and other delicacies. So, the other night my host mom served me a plate of spaghetti noodles in a light red sauce. "Do you make pasta this way in America? Um, yes," I said, "I'm pretty sure it's Italian.". Right" She put the plate down in front of me and stood over me as I took a bite. "Well? Thing...
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Turk-o-Log: random
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Leslie takes her first timid steps out of the former Communist bloc to explore a land of strong coffee, ancient ruins, agglutinative grammar and streets named after Atatürk. Wednesday, July 29, 2009. With a photorealistic cupcake in heart-shaped sunglasses, and "Don't live on the hillside" in threatening Goth letters on a black shirt. The ones in Ohio (Upper and regular) are the only Sanduskies I know of. Tonight I am leaving on a night bus for Alanya, a resort town (with a castle! In which a tick mistak...
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Turk-o-Log: Cranky post
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Leslie takes her first timid steps out of the former Communist bloc to explore a land of strong coffee, ancient ruins, agglutinative grammar and streets named after Atatürk. Thursday, August 6, 2009. On Tuesday we had our end-of-program talent show. It wasn't really the end of the program - we still have another week - but the junior version of our program (high school kids) are leaving tomorrow, so we did it with them. Let them not build their house on a high, high hill. Yeah Most depressing wedding son...