Sunday, January 23rd, 2005

So I’ve been back in Turkey for two days. And I’ve spent most of them asleep! It’s funny what I night of drinking in the Munich airport without sleep will do to your constitution. I got back to the dormitory about 5:30 pm Friday. Bed was immediate. I slept until about 10 am the next day, then decided to wander around Ankara for a while and reacquaint myself with the city. That lasted until about 3:00 pm. I then went back to bed and slept until noon today! I don’t know if it’s smart to sleep that much, but I did. Perhaps it’s my body fending of the stress of a transition… I don’t know.

Anyway, today I wondered over to the internet café and did some surfing and emailing. Afterwards I decided to give my friend Mehmet a call, just to see where he was. I figured he would be at home, since it is a holiday at the moment, but fortunately he was in Ankara! He came back to the dorms and we hung out until about right now. I asked him if anything at all happened while I was gone. But nothing had. I don’t know if I should be glad that I didn’t miss anything, or sad that it was so boring here while I was absent.

So let’s see, what to talk about. Well, I woke today to find tons of snow all over the place! Quite a contrast from the pretty decent weather I experienced in England and Switzerland. Oh, and I will write about Switzerland soon, but it’ll take a while to get it all down. I won’t attempt a day by day run through; I’ll just do the highlights. But it will be done!

Tomorrow I will go to Tandoğan and say hi to all my friends there, and leech off their high bandwidth. Hopefully I can get the Switzerland bit taken care of then.

I’m sorry I haven’t updated this thing at all, but time just slipped away from me. I promise that I will start doing semi-daily updates again now, so all twelve of you that actually read this (if you haven’t given up by now) can once again live vicariously through me.