Tarsus Selale Hotel Istanbul

... Univesity in Philosophy Hall
at 7pm. Please send me a full report. I especially want to know how Garnette
did in his discussion of the Dexter photo. I know it can be done without me but
I hate to miss it. So happy for Herman and so grateful to Diedra, Danny, and Bob.

I am so sleepy from socializing but I don't want to be one of those people who
sends a blog for a day or two and then loses interest.

With love,
Maxine

... some of the famed Van cats. Van cats are large white cats and are characterized by their distinctive eyes. Males have one blue and one green eye, and females have one blue and one yellow. They also like to swim, which they learned to do in Lake Van. We learned that you are not allowed to take them out of the country. However, Osman said Brittany could have one as part of a marriage proposal, and he even threw in the hookah. The owners of van cats are very proud, and ...

Greetings... 
sorry its been a few days since my last post. not much has happened since this weekend ( i dont know how i could top it during the week - getting caught up in the futbol madness was pretty awesome)... i have been working with marketing again this week and i am happy about this because they are all so nice... dont get me wrong, the people who work in sales development are equally as nice its just that i feel more comfortable ...

... Ramadan treats for us while drinking tea with us and telling us all about Istanbul. We spent a few hours in the tents with the staff hanging out here one night watching the Ramadan parade go by and it was a great night. Besides the Ramadan effect the liveliness of the town that created such a great first impression was also probably due to it being summer and warm or even hot which seemed to put everyone in a festive mood. But speaking of changes our follow ...

... is apparently his only true love. I tried to console him by telling him that a guy I like also went back home far, far away and there's nothing I can do but to GET OVER IT. He wanted our phone numbers, so he can call us- oh gosh. I hope he meets a nice village virgin in Turkmenistan, so he can forget about the exotic beauty he met in Istanbul... Today, I had one productive day. I went to the other campus to return my books, FINISHED my ...

... to me and the maps, I don't think I was quiet up to the challenge........ We got lost. After about half an hr we did find the place, only to be told that they were now closed and we couldn't stay! Well we were a little put out, we didn't know where we were going to go, and it was getting later. Just as we were about to leave a whole heap of Italian people came past and asked why we weren't going in. It turned out they were staying there, and couldn't understand why ...

... told this story to a friend of mine who just nodded and chuckled. We were so used to the Turkish system that we expected nothing less. Then he snapped his fingers and laughed. "Ha, at least now I know where to go if I need a quick fix." I doubt he's the first person who's thought of that. Open For Business I was teaching a grammar point, no doubt something eye-opening and brilliant, when I realized that it was five minutes past break time. "All ...

... There are over 4000 shops at this place. I was more interested in the markets that spılled out of the Bazaar because these were open air. I took my whack at bargaining, meeting a few friendly turks along the way. Something I just realized, I have not conversed with a native english speaker once in the last 3 days. That is the first time I can say that. One thing I have learned here in Istanbul is that no matter where you go you will be loved by some and hated by ...

... Cistern, and called the Sunken Palace by Istanbuls. This Cistern is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath Istanbul. It was built in the 4th century to provide a water supply for the Byzantine Great Palace. It measures a whopping 460 feet long by 230 feet wide. These 336 marble Ionic, Corinthian and Doric columns rise to the ceiling, marching in twelve rows of 28 columns. Carp can be see swimming in the shallow water. A boardwalk lets you walk thru the ...

... a Turkish bath, or hamam, was a place where people could go to get clean and socialize. Here are the different steps that we went through today. First we walked in and chose what our Turkish bath would include. We chose the second package that had a soap massage, a hairwash and scrubdown. We each got a token for our package and an individual scrubbing pad. We went down to the lockers, took off our clothes, changed into towels and went into a sauna room. We ...