Two days ago i wrote about how i saw my first cemetery here and how it is my new secret garden. Well yesterday my host father died. It was in the morning and they were cleaning the house all day until the mother and a couple of her friends came back in the early afternoon. Soon after that the doorbell just would not stop ringing. I wanted to help and i tried to but there is not much i can do since i dont even speak Turkish. I spent most of the day in my room watching youtube videos of glee and the only show i can watch on hulu (literally the only show since i am in a foreign country). I would occasionally go check on things downstairs even though it was completely awkward for me. it was crazy cuz i went down and there were some people there and then the next time there was an entire catering service there with servers in fancy outfits and everything. Out back there were tables and those big outdoor heaters they have at restaurants. It was raining most the night which is the part that i cannot figure out if it is ironic or cliche. we picked up zeynep from school and went directly to their family friends house, where i had been before. Zeynep did not know anything until her mom picked us up like 5 hours later and told her. I played with them and kept them busy. we had an amazing dinner with salad, pasta, soup, steak, all of which was completely amazing!! and they had a great cake too! We went back and i had to play with her and her friend until midnight. Today people were over from early. Apparently it is tradition for two weeks of people being over from sun up to sun down. I heard it will only be about a week and i guess it makes up for the fact that people are here until after midnight. They just sit around all day in science mostly and eat and smoke. Its seriously so awkward. I am glad i had to take care of the kids who were just wanting to have fun and laugh. I had to have kelly go with me downstairs to get some food. You could cut the tension with a knife. Its a whole different feeling than the funerals i have been to. My family is not religious so that makes me sad that they do not have the comfort i do and grateful that i have the gospel. I spent the entire day with Zeynep and her friends. Its been exhausting but at least i got to see some of the other aupairs for a part of the time. At one point i was watching and entertaining about 5 little girls. The plus about all this is that the food is seriously so good! the catering is delicious (i wanted to take pictures of it but i dont think it would be appropriate) I will have to explain some of the dishes later. We got lunch with the kids at this restaurant today. Basically all the sweets and baklava i want. Dinner last night and we will be going out for lunch tomorrow. its a nice break from Havvas cooking which i am sorry to say i am not a huge fan of. Tomorrow is the funeral and I will stay with Zeynep for only about an hour and only for the ceremony. the mom does not want her at the burial which will be in the cemetery i found the other day (ironic). Yudum is of course having a hard time and so is Havva and Zeyneps older half brother and sister. Zeynep is doing great though. just being a little kid, she is a bit more touchy and bossy lately but thats about it. I am thinking that in a few weeks it will hit her and she will just crash. She is getting really close to me so hopefully by then we will be close enought for me to really help her through it all. I love her. the other day she stood up for me and protected me from her friend who is a little boy and wanted to make me his prisoner.
Today i met my friends Claires kids who she watches. The girl Lal is so cute!!! She asked me if i was a fashion designer and said i looked like i was. Then she started to call me the fashion queen. she was dying to play dress up with me and show me all her fashion stuff since she wants to get into fashion. it was so stinkin cute! she wanted to sit next to me at lunch and since i had to leave her house early since Zeynep got in a mood swing and started crying to go home we couldnt do our fashion show. She told claire after i left that she really likes me and was sad i had to leave.
Later tonight Zeynep wanted to play dress up but dress up me in my clothes. she she went through my stuff and dressed me up and made me pose while she took pictures. then she wanted to dress up in my clothes which was so cute and funny cuz of course everything was way too big for her but we made it work. she really likes my clothes. I will get those pics up soon i hope, they were on her camera.
Hopefully things go well for the rest of things. I will keep this updated.
oh ps, my sister might have a huge tumor! or it might just be an extremely large cyst on her ovaries. Hopefully its the latter one. either she will have to get surgery since it goes from on her bladder to her belly button and the doctor said she is the size of a 4month pregnant woman!
i forgot the other thing i was going to write about so its now the end
goodnight
take care!
Keep them in your prayers please!
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