snowy day at odtü

To give you a better idea of why I hate going to ODTÜ so much, here is what happened yesterday. My class starts at 940, so I left my house at 830 which would normally be ample time for me to arrive . To catch the ODTÜ dolmuş, I have to cross a busy road and wait on the opposite side. So I was literally in the middle of the road as the first dolmuş drove by. I get to the other side and wait for 25 minutes for the next dolmuş. Its full so it drives on by. So I start walking. I walked for probably 20 minutes then waited for the next dolmuş. It came five minutes later and luckily stopped. I squeezed into the pack of people standing and tried to hold on as we swerved through traffic. We finally got to the stop on campus and then I walked the 15 minutes to the International Relations building and got to class one minute before the teacher. I will probably have to go through this every time I go to that class.

Anyways...

After class I went with my friend to the mall on campus so she could get some passport photos. We found this guy hanging out on the trash can. Hes really big and real clean. Most of the wild cats on campus are clean.


He followed us for a ways

Then he found new people to hang out with

This is outside the entrance to the mall on campus. Theres an atm for every bank.

The "river"

Apparently the kids at ODTÜ are the smartest kids in Turkey. This is the pitiful snowman they created...

I am off to Istanbul tonight. My group is heading their as part of the new kids orientation, so I am tagging along since its free. Ill be back on Monday morning.