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Daire var!

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

I have an apartment! It’s right across from the university and furnished– the best possible option. Pictures– of this and other things, though I’ve been too busy to photograph much lately– incoming.
In discussing the apartment with Narin, I found out something very surprising to me: many Turkish people apparently don’t know– and don’t [...]

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The last five days

Sunday, October 4, 2009

For the last five days (Tuesday-Saturday), I’ve been in Ankara for Fulbright orientation, an intense and extremely helpful experience. I haven’t been posting because the orientation was so exhausting; I’m full of ideas for outreach projects, research plans, and English teaching techniques. Unfortunately, I didn’t get much time to see Ankara’s sites (primarily [...]

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And a little closer to the present

Sunday, September 27, 2009

One more quick status update before I go:
1) Yesterday Narin took me into the city proper for the first time, which was excellent. (She was joking about having no practice being a tour guide in Antep, but she was really helpful.) I now have the beginnings of an understanding of how the bus system works [...]

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Made it. (Barely?)

Friday, September 25, 2009

I am writing from Gaziantep, finally (and am on the laptop of my host, where I cannot find the apostrophe key, so expect some wacky phrasing and orthography). It was not the most pleasant plane trip I have ever taken, unfortunately, although I am dealing with much less jet lag than I anticipated.
There is [...]

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Look! It’s a visa!

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Departure time for Turkey is rapidly approaching (more on that sometime soon), so I was really relieved that my Turkish visa arrived today. The paperwork took forever to get together– my own fault, though compounded by my lack of a non-passport ID and distance from a FEDEX office– and I’ve been worrying about the [...]

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