Turkey Pics!

~ Highlight of the Day: Singing 'So Long and Thanks for All the Fish' in a holy cistern. . . :) ~

 

Me and Madison at Pergamum

 

 Turkey pictures! It's working! I'm going to see how long this lasts. . . I have my Old Testament midterm tomorrow, and every body's studying for it, which is probably why there's enough internet left for me to upload pictures :)

Me at the Hagia Sophia (Marina, you and I are

 coming back here and spending hours in this building. )

 

Lantern shop in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul.

I am so bad at bargaining. . . it's almost funny.

 

Alyssa, Madison, and me waiting to go into the Blue Mosque, right across

from the Hagia Sophia. It took me a day or so to warm up to the whole scarf thing, but I am totally converted. I love scarves.

 

Well, I simply cannot afford to use up any more homework time, (and my laptop battery is nearly dead) so I'll have to continue my Turkey account next time. Perhaps I'll have enough time to write cool stuff about the places we visited. . . maybe. We'll see :)

 

 

 

 

Home Sweet Home

~ Highlight of the Week: Sitting in an ancient stone temple on top of a mountain covered in olive tree groves looking out at the Aegean Sea ~

Well, I'm back from Turkey! On one hand it seems like we've been in Turkey for ages, but then on the other hand sitting here at the Jerusalem Center again feels like we never left at all. I am tired though. Utterly exhausted. We kept up a pretty good pace, and there were a lot of early mornings, late nights, long bus rides, big rocky ruins, and strange food.

Over all, Turkey is an amazing place that was not at all what I expected (not that I really knew what to expect. . . do we learn anything in school about Turkey?), and I'd absolutely love to go back some day if I get the chance. There is soooo much to say, and so many pictures to share! That being said, I also have been putting off my homework for the last 8 days, and have two papers to write and a test to  study for. So I'll try to give you my Turkey experience in chunks.

I may post later today with a picture or two to get started. . . if I don't crash and sleep off the last week or so of hotel beds and bus rides :)