Weekend Adventures!

     The past few days have been very busy!  We have been continuing our Turkish lessons with Gul.  I am definitely not one of the fastest learners of our team, but we have had a great time learning.  On Friday, Gul invited our class over to her house for our lesson.  She also wanted to serve us some traditional Turkish food.  Our lesson went well, but I have to admit, I think our brains are becoming overloaded- at least mine is.  :)  I now appreciate even more what it takes to learn a 2nd language.  After our lesson, Gul served "manti" which is a dough that is boiled, then sauce is put over it.  The sauce is a very different taste than any American food, but it is really good!  We also had another Turksih dish, watermelon, and baklava.  Baklava is amazing!  I think our entire team likes it way too much.  I won't mention names but some of the male members have polished off a half pound of baklava 4 days in a row!  Anyway, we all had a very good time with Gul, and she has been wonderful with answering all of our questions about Turkish culture.  Not only did she invite our team over to her house on Friday, but as president of the Women's International Club, she also invited us to their tour trip today.  We got to enjoy an afternoon on a boat in the Mediterranean.  Our trip took us to Side, another ancient city of Turkey.  Again, it was amazing to see the architecture and imagine what it would have been like to live back then. 

     Another exciting adventure for us last night was that we got to watch a Turkish club futbol game: Anatalyaspor vs. Ankara.  Anl & Coray, some of our friends from English school, invited us to come to the match with them.  The game was incredible!  Antalyaspor won 1-0, and we all had a great time together.  It was so much fun watching the Turkish fans- they are incredibly loyal!  We all joined in on the Turkish cheers and ate lots of sunflower seeds.  Afterwards we took our Turkish friends out for icecream.  Overall, it has been a great weekend!

 

By Abigail