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Category Archives: First Impressions

Şanlıurfa’ya Scenes

[No proper introduction, as I'm on my way to bed, but here are some things jotted down in my notebook while on the way to Urfa this morning, and while at dinner. Other actual Urfa reflections to follow sometime. Short version: it was an absolutely lovely travel day.]

On the way to the bus [...]

Fortunes

I am finally sitting outside the Gaziantep airport, after a rather chaotic trip over here. The last few days before leaving were a whirlwind– even more so than usual, I think, because I wound up needing to take the GRE the morning before I left. (I did fine, though not as well as [...]