Merhaba guys,
nasılsın? Iyiyim! Which means how are you, and iam fine! My Turkish is quite bad but its getting better I try to find a tandem partner so we exchange English and Turkish!
So I am in Turkey for almost 2 month now and still I experience new things all the time! It is not as if I already know how the country works! Even the people still surprise me!
Travelling through the country is a lot of fun, and the landscape is amazing! I´ve just came back from a little journey! I must tell you! Rasmus and me, we went to my friends house in Istanbul with a very, very slow night-train! It was so cheap! We only paid like 15 € for 500 km! Well it took 8 hours so that might be the reason why it was so cheap lol.
So we spend the weekend at Luis house and walked around the city, amazing 15 million people live there but it still is a very interesting place unlike New York which I honestly did not like that much!
We have been to the blue mosque which is a very pretty building and nice and cosy inside because they have carpets!!! Well and the Hagia Sophia which used to be a church so it is much different from the other mosques. And also the Grand bazaar is quite an interesting place and totally orient style!
I love it here and people are very open, whenever you look lost, people just stop to help you. In Germany they would just ignore you. And people even invite you from the streets to share food and tea which is very nice because a lot of them don’t even know English and they still help you!!!
So on Monday we had to go to our EVS(European Voluntary Service) On Arrival training in çanakkale, which is a city close to Troy. And guess what, we stayed.JPG)
in a 5 star hotel with sea view out of the windows!!! It was amazing, a pool, a Haman, sauna and sooo much food! But i must say didn’t gain much from the training concerning the content and we basically knew all of it because we have been on exchange. But still the meeting was quite fun, the trainers were nice and awesome to meet all of those new people. OF course most of them were German. ITs always like that no matter where you go in the world i will always find my germans lol.
nasılsın? Iyiyim! Which means how are you, and iam fine! My Turkish is quite bad but its getting better I try to find a tandem partner so we exchange English and Turkish!
So I am in Turkey for almost 2 month now and still I experience new things all the time! It is not as if I already know how the country works! Even the people still surprise me!
Travelling through the country is a lot of fun, and the landscape is amazing! I´ve just came back from a little journey! I must tell you! Rasmus and me, we went to my friends house in Istanbul with a very, very slow night-train! It was so cheap! We only paid like 15 € for 500 km! Well it took 8 hours so that might be the reason why it was so cheap lol.
So we spend the weekend at Luis house and walked around the city, amazing 15 million people live there but it still is a very interesting place unlike New York which I honestly did not like that much!
We have been to the blue mosque which is a very pretty building and nice and cosy inside because they have carpets!!! Well and the Hagia Sophia which used to be a church so it is much different from the other mosques. And also the Grand bazaar is quite an interesting place and totally orient style!
I love it here and people are very open, whenever you look lost, people just stop to help you. In Germany they would just ignore you. And people even invite you from the streets to share food and tea which is very nice because a lot of them don’t even know English and they still help you!!!
So on Monday we had to go to our EVS(European Voluntary Service) On Arrival training in çanakkale, which is a city close to Troy. And guess what, we stayed
.JPG)
in a 5 star hotel with sea view out of the windows!!! It was amazing, a pool, a Haman, sauna and sooo much food! But i must say didn’t gain much from the training concerning the content and we basically knew all of it because we have been on exchange. But still the meeting was quite fun, the trainers were nice and awesome to meet all of those new people. OF course most of them were German. ITs always like that no matter where you go in the world i will always find my germans lol.But all in all i must say it was great meeting all of them and hopefully we will all meet up again soon!
Well the meeting was finished on Friday so Esther (a friend of mine, from Germany as well), Rasmus (the Danish guy I live with) and I decided quite spontaneously to go to an island before going home. Gökçeada (Imbros in Greek) used to be a Greek island but now its Turkish and not far from çanakkale, so we took a ferry over there and met a band on the bus, who helped us find a place to stay! Later that night we went to a tentparty to see the band perform their Turkish folk songs it was quite fun! It seemed like the whole island met up there!
SO the next day we went to a salt lake on the island, you don’t even have to go to the black sea to get that great peeling for your skin, we saw that same stuff at the saltlake (tuz gölü)and it did not even stink as much as the peeling mud from the dead sea :D
The taxi driver, whose name was Machmut by the way, took us to find the “famous” waterfall on that island. Well we couldn’t really find it at first, even though Machmut hiked up and down the hills with us, it took us an hour and a half to get there and we had scratches all over our legs but we found it!!! And it was beautiful, so our friend the taxi driver hiked with us all the way up there that was quite nice! And believe it or not on the way back we found a trail which let to the waterfall and would have been a much easier way to go! Well so we did some sports that is ok as well!
Because of the hike we missed our ferry so we stayed an extra night and celebrated a Turkish wedding, the whole village met in the center and put up some chairs for the old people to sit and everyone else was just dancing on the streets! And later they handed out cake to everyone we even got a piece! And Turkish folk music everywhere it sounds quite hilarious! You got to listen to it!
But that island we went to has quite a few Greek influences you kind of notice whenever you walk around even the music that the taxidriver listen to sounds more greek than turkish lol.
Well the meeting was finished on Friday so Esther (a friend of mine, from Germany as well), Rasmus (the Danish guy I live with) and I decided quite spontaneously to go to an island before going home. Gökçeada (Imbros in Greek) used to be a Greek island but now its Turkish and not far from çanakkale, so we took a ferry over there and met a band on the bus, who helped us find a place to stay! Later that night we went to a tentparty to see the band perform their Turkish folk songs it was quite fun! It seemed like the whole island met up there!
SO the next day we went to a salt lake on the island, you don’t even have to go to the black sea to get that great peeling for your skin, we saw that same stuff at the saltlake (tuz gölü)and it did not even stink as much as the peeling mud from the dead sea :D
The taxi driver, whose name was Machmut by the way, took us to find the “famous” waterfall on that island. Well we couldn’t really find it at first, even though Machmut hiked up and down the hills with us, it took us an hour and a half to get there and we had scratches all over our legs but we found it!!! And it was beautiful, so our friend the taxi driver hiked with us all the way up there that was quite nice! And believe it or not on the way back we found a trail which let to the waterfall and would have been a much easier way to go! Well so we did some sports that is ok as well!
Because of the hike we missed our ferry so we stayed an extra night and celebrated a Turkish wedding, the whole village met in the center and put up some chairs for the old people to sit and everyone else was just dancing on the streets! And later they handed out cake to everyone we even got a piece! And Turkish folk music everywhere it sounds quite hilarious! You got to listen to it!
But that island we went to has quite a few Greek influences you kind of notice whenever you walk around even the music that the taxidriver listen to sounds more greek than turkish lol.
Very early the next morning we took the ferry back-with the band-and took a minibus to Bursa which is half way back to Ankara. On the way we were chased by the police :D , the driver was going to fast so we had to stop and he argued with the police but we could go on, and met some Americans on the bus who used to live in Turkey and now came back to travel and see friends, very nice people!
After awhile we got to Bursa-met some people who helped us buy tickets for the way home and then took a walk around the city to the yeşil camii (the green mosque) a very beautiful building but I would consider it to be blue rather than green lol (and it also used to be a church I think). So later that night we got on the bus and made
After awhile we got to Bursa-met some people who helped us buy tickets for the way home and then took a walk around the city to the yeşil camii (the green mosque) a very beautiful building but I would consider it to be blue rather than green lol (and it also used to be a church I think). So later that night we got on the bus and made
it home around midnight after a 6 hour busride! We are very lucky that we live like 5 minutes by foot from the bus terminal!So I must say we already have done quite some travelling here in Turkey and it is always very nice and easy to meet new people we have some people in Bursa and Canakkale now where we can come and stay! And EVERYONE here in Turkey has facebook its crazy!!! Oh sry i dont want to generalize but it seems like that.
So I hope you liked my little report and hope to hear from you as well!!! Anything exciting going on?
Görüşürüz! Greetings from Ankara!
Greta
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