sorry for the lack of posts guys. my computer is currently out of commission so its hard to find internet sometimes. hopefully i will get that fixed in the next week or so.

im finally back to normal healthwise. just the usual sniffles from the lovely pollution of Ankara.

i dropped my economics class. i decided it was not worth it to try and learn calculus and catch up on the missed work (from when i was sick). so now i will be taking a third turkish class instead, which is good because i am here to learn the language anyways.

my semester is almost done here. i have a take home midterm next week for my turkish foreign policy class. then there is only about two and a half weeks left in that class. so i will be done with classes before christmas. then classes do not start again until feb. 18. so i have two months off....i will hopefully come home for one of those weeks, but it depends on the money situation. this whole semester has just been one giant vacation. i am used to working two jobs while taking the maximum number of classes, so its quite a different experience over here. i have become very lazy. i do get a lot of sleep though, which is good i guess.

hopefully my computer will be fixed by next week so i can load some more pictures. in the mean time, you can look at all of my pictures from the trip so far here -> http://flickr.com/photos/jehosephat103

hope all is well in the states. görüşürüz