Dundar Hotel Konya

... center and they informed us that there are free dances every Sat night at the cultural center. Well, luckily for us, it was Saturday. And the price was right.

We first visited the museum there, and then walked around quite abit, since the dance didn't start until 9 PM. So, we walked up to the culture center, and the dance was really magnificent. Don't miss it.

... that would imply a link between Islam in general and terrorism. Mine also altered a question about whether it’s OK to have sex before marriage to be worded “living together before marriage.” The answer, btw, is, it’s not OK. As a young imam, he tries to work with younger people to help them follow the Koran.

After the discussion, we all took a walk through town to visit Ismail’s mosque, which used to be the Church of St. Gregory (of the Gregorian ...

... used to, but now I like it very much. p/s maybe you are curious what have I been eating? Every breakfast has yogurt, honey, tomatoes, olives and white cheese. Every lunch/dinner has kebab (chicken, lamb or beef), rice pilav and I forget the turkish word but is basically a meatball. Also always pasta, usually spaghetti but sometimes macaroni. My favorite is goulash (sp?) which is mixture similar to stew. Meat, carrot, peas maybe potatoe.

... but buildings that look like a cheap Las Vegas place. In the town center and around, it was much like Yalova...just not on the shoreline. Ok, so now you get the story behind my adventure to here, I can get down to what I wanted to say. This trip so far is bringing me to see some interesting human dynamics. From a-strange-personal point of view, you can watch how people in a social environment begin to speak to other random people. They get along well and have good chats ...

... I cant remember the hotel we stayed at but it was pretty disgusting but we didn't stay for long as we needed to make it down to the Mevlana museum before it closed. The museum was the former home of the whirling dervishes - its dome is the colour of turquoise which makes it stand out. Shoes off and feet coverings on we entered the Mevlana tomb - the founder of the dervish sect. You can't take pics in ...

... museum that used to be a religious school. We did ultimately make it to the museum, which was originally a mausoleum for Mevlâna Celaleddin Rumi, whose followers created the Mevlevi order of whirling dervişes. The museum was amazing with its elaborately covered gold walls, tombs and artifacts. Some school children were there visiting and became more enthralled with Amy than with the museum. Each place she went ...

... returned and the game was a draw (3-3). But the amount of injuries! Many people were scraped and bruised quite badly but Marin went to the hospital for 7 stitches in her ankle! She apparently fell and cut herself on something (everyone said the pitch was in really bad condition). Several days later, her foot was swollen like a balloon and she could not put any pressure on it at all. Poor Marin was hopping all over the dig house because apparently the ...

... overwrote everything that was on the ipod. And I could not stop it- there was no "stop" option. I just sat there and screamed, "Noooooooooooooo!!", waving my hands madly, which obviously did not do much good but I otherwise felt powerless. Keep in mind that I literally had over 1200 HOURS of material (books and music) on the ipod that does not exist anywhere else. And I was very proud of just ...

... float to the surface, are collected and dried). At the end is me and my brick/mortar samples and my tiny little plastic sieves and squirt bottle. For the first time today, my sieving has produced some interesting results. I was beginning to give up on all this but I knew I just had to do enough samples, from different areas, to produce something concrete. I'm excited anyway and I'll have something to show Ian when he gets back from Cambridge next week. During our ...

As many of you already know, there is a long tradition of themed Thursday night parties here at Catalhoyuk. Costume parties were borne from pure boredom and has now assumed the status of "tradition" from the late 1990's. And this week was no exception. Maria is a particularly creative person and decided that we needed to have an art party where we all submit a piece of art ...