Brillant News!

I got a summer internship! I am not sure where I will be working yet, but most likely I will be in Turkey. Once I know for sure, I will let you know.

It snowed today, but all of it melted before the afternoon. I woke up around 9am and everything was covered in snow. I went back to sleep until noon, and then all the snow was gone so I could not take any pictures. It will likely happen again, though, so next time there will be pictures.

I have not done much on my project, but tomorrow I will be scheduling some interviews. Hopefully after that, I can get some more writing done. It took me like 2 hours to finish a page, and I am still not sure if its how I would like it to be.. Coming out of a semester where I was writing 5 page papers in like an hour, this paper is very slow going for me... This topic is probably too complex, but hopefully it will turn out okay.

Two Weeks??

So I have been in Ankara since Sunday night. I have a great place to stay and I am working on my independent study. I met with four big time gurus on terrorism and they all said they would give me an interview. One also gave me some articles he had written, only one of which was in English...

I have been here for about two weeks already and I had no idea. I still have three more though, which should be plenty of time to finish my paper.

I met with an American girl who was in the same program as me last year. She is leaving on Saturday to go back to America. Another friend of mine, however, is probably coming sometime next week. She was also here last year.

Not much interesting stuff happening really. Just trying to get this project out of the way.

Lots of Snow

I am currently in Eskişehir watching lots of Law and Order. Snow has been falling all day, and a few hours last night. According to weather.com, it will snow here until next Saturday. One of my friends invited me to go skiing in a week or so, so hopefully the snow will keep up.

Not really doing much but watching movies and sleeping. I am blaming jet lag.

I hope everyone had a good new years!

Happy New Year

So I made it to Istanbul relatively unscathed, but with only one hour of sleep. I had some sort of bug Saturday night with a bit of a fever, but slept all day Sunday which seemed to help.

I am now in Eskişehir, a city about 3 hours away from Ankara. There is about 5 inches of snow on the ground and it keeps snowing. I think its like 15 degrees outside.

Tomorrow I am heading to Ankara for New Years Eve. I will get to see a lot of my friends and see my favorite band play. Probably will be back in Eskişehir on Thursday, but not entirely sure yet.

Otherwise not much going on here. Hope you guys enjoy your holiday.

Landed

Im safe in istanbul. will write more later

Magic Jack

I just extended my magic jack number for another year and changed the number to a Richmond area code. The new number is 8047238168. You can call that number at any time and if I am not online at the time, you can just leave me a voicemail.

New Travels

Getting ready for more traveling here. Decided to update the blog. Look for more posts in a few weeks.