NEW YEARS!

I have a lot to catch up! so i just write really quick, what i did!

Laura and i didnt really want to stay in Ankara for New years, even though a friend of us had a great party coming up, but we thought there gotta be more to it than staying here.
So when Lotta told us she will go to Istanbul we joined her!

and Also a friend of mine (YFU friend) doing Erasmus in Norway was coming to Istanbul to see some friends , great opportunity so finally see her again!

So we took the Van gölü Express, great train, comes from Van, the farthest east it can possibly be- close to the Armenian border and takes like 20 hours to ankara or something lol!

So it only cost like 4 euros to Istanbul so we were fine with it!

But it was like really really slow. We went over night and it took 9 h. There where some strange people in our compartment. An old guy from Eskisehir that looked like he wanted to eat us right there-and then he invited us to his house, we could just go to Istanbul the next day, thanks but no thanks

and a little guy, just 18 but looked like 12! a barber from van but works in Istanbul and after the old guy left the little one couldnt stop talking but neither one of them spoke english so he was kinda entertaining himself and just threw words at us , like Michael Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Fenerbahce and stuff .

Was funny in the beginning but then only annoying!

So later on we went to sleep finally! the compartment was overheated! we felt like in a sauna! aweful you couldnt even move because it was too hot!

Oh and there are no trashcans at least we didnt see any, so our "friends" just threw the stuff out the window-what the hell?

Ok so like the last hours we finally managed to get some sleep even though it was too hot! and that funny little guy ended up sleeping crawled up in my lap, whatever!

we got to Istanbul at 5 in the morning so we slept a bit at the train station then we went to Miriams house , got some more sleep, a nice breakfast! and then went to Lottas friends, but we didnt feel like getting stoned on Silvester so we took off too meet Miram and some friends that were invited for dinner by their coordinator!

We joined them it was a nice group! really enjoyed it, later we went to a party in Taksim but we didnt walk down iseklat , cause it was too crowded!

well i met this banker lol really funny but it was too boring so he ask me too leave with him but i kinda enjoyed the party and i was already quite drunk!

so i stayed and met some Americans that travel through turkey these days, and both of them were jewish and spend some time in Israel i was in heaven, so interesting to hear their stories!

So then some time in the morning we went home-to Miriams place with a nightnbus to the asian side ! it took us forever and i was drunk and was singing and talking about whatever shit came to my mind so Laura told me to shut up and i was really going on her nerves and iam really sorry about that!

but oh well i did shut up eventually!

we were sitting at the Bosporus for like half an hour then it got too cold and we went home to sleep on the floor once again, cause our stuff was still at Lottas friends house, we are just some geniuses!

So the next day we tried to pick up the stuff , first we couldnt find the house but finally we managed to get it and met my friends from Norway/Germany and had something to eat with them. then we took a bus to Sariyer to see Lui.

Had a nice evening with him didnt really do anything but watch movies and chill but that was just what we needed! and its always fun to be around him. So we actually wanted to only stay until Saturday night and leave that night but we decided to stay one more day and go back sunday night!

so we didnt have to hurry! we had a nice dinner on saturday and just enjoyed!

And Lui didnt even promise to come and see me in Ankara when hes back from Germany who knows if that is going to happen ?

So we left Sunday morning-went to the Bluse Mosque really quick, cause Laura has been there but not inside!

Then we were too tired and lost to find the Grant bazaar without getting on the metro agaiN!

so we took the ferry over to Kadiköy and met Miriam, ate some soup, talked and then she took us to the Trainstation!

The trainride back was a bit more expensive but still cheap like 9 euros, it took us awhile to figure out that we were in a sleeping compartment but it was nice! there was an old lady sitting next to me and without any prejudices or stereotypes she honestly looked like a witch, but she was very nice and shared the food her daughter in law had given her for the way with us and tried to talk to us, successless but oh well! it was still unbelievable hot in the train but we got to Ankara at 7 am so we were good with that!

Great TRIP! like always :D