Sorry i havent posted for a while. I just have not been in the mood to type. This week was the week marker for the funeral and on the day it was like it was one of the first days after he died. Yudum said that some friends where coming over and i thought ok no big deal she always has friends over just to chat with. Next thing I knew i heard the doorbell ring and a bunch of noise from downstairs, when i went down there was the catering people getting th food ready and already people were showing up. Its a traditional thing with funerals the on the week after and 30 days after they have people come over and they feed them and remember the dead and visit the gravesite. of course I was the one who had to watch all the kids. Most of them are great kids but there is this one girl. Alara who is this little ,cute girl and then you find out she is crazy! She likes to scream and she has a very high pitched scream. She also riles Zeynep up also and they are bouncing all the walls! She was the one who last time she was over decided to hide my show stuff and some of my makeup in different places in the bathroom. i think they tried to pull it off again but i made sure they knew it was not going to happen again. After that i went to Kellys house and spent the night. it was super fun, we watched this movie with the cutiest little kid, and ate ,and talked. The next morning (like every morning for her) we had pancakes and nutella! so good! We then went to the kindergarten kids performance at the school which her kid Alp was participating in. He was the cutest thing ever! his part was a rockstar daisy. Zeynep was there since she knew people in it and her teacher let her out. After the show I went to the city with Aley. She has this place that she likes to go to so we went. This place is so great! it is not very touristy and its the more local kinds of people and shops. There was this great big Mosque there that I loved to see! I was to explore it more another day and take pictures when i get another camera or find a charger. We had lunch for like 3 lyra each ($2) and then walked to this open market that is only on Fridays. It was amazing!! everything was super cheap! They had socks for 1 lyra which is like 60 cents, pickles for 3 lyra a kilo, shoes for 15 lyra ($10), and shirts for like 5 lyra. I also got strawberries for 2 lyra a kilo!!! They were so good and cheap!!! Next time i will get at least two kilo cuz they were gone by this afternoon! I also got some sweet jewlery for dirt cheap and perfume ( nina ricci ligit stuff and i have wanted for years! and it was 15 lyra!) . The energy was amazing and the people were pretty nice. I had to control myself to not but so many things. Aley was looking at some stuff at this one stand and i looked to the other side of the walking way and there was this really attractive Turkish guy looking at me. I kept looking back and every time he was staring at me! It got a little creepy but it was nothing when we moved on. Well as we were walking down the next row of booths he had gone around to come the other way to find me and was hardcore staring at me! When we passed him (i was trying to just not pay any attention to him at that point) he was talking in Turkish. Aley then was like he is stalking you cuz he turned around and was looking for me again. She ducked behind a fish stand to watch him and at the right moment we just booked it to the other side of the market where she got something that she was going back to buy and we left. It was freaky really. I think she was mostly trying to get me for sure safe and then said it was probably not something big but still better safe then sorry.
Down the street we found this great shoe shop that was higher quality but still had some good deals. I was so tempted but since i had gotten flats already that day i resisted. I will go back.
Then we wondered into this clothing shop and found out everything there was only 10 lyra! which is like $6.30!! I didnt let myself look through almost any of the stuff but i still walked away with a new plaid shirt and dress! it was so worth it! The worker there said ( with the help of Aleys broken Turkish and Charades) that i looked Turkish. WHich i really do.
All in all I only Spent about 50 lyra or a little more which is about $35 so great day!! Aley spent the night at my place and we watched two movies and then talked until about 4am!!! it was bad but we both couldnt sleep and then couldnt stop taking. Roommates you know how that is! ;)
When Zeynep woke me up exactly at 9 this morning (the earliest her mom will let her wake me up thank goodness, especially since she was up since 5 am ) with a paper place that said "Time to wake up rrrrring!" with an alarm clock drawn to 9'o clock. Aley was already gone to her family which was crazy!
Oh Zeynep the other day said that she wished i was married. That was weird but today I found out that she was saying that because she was asking her mom if i was a mom so she could get me something for mothers day! so cute!! We went to the store today and I had to help her get her mothers day presents which was so cute! she was so excited and of course her mom was paying for it all, but i had to help her cover up what she was getting all this stuff for but of course her mom knew and we were talking about it later. It was so fun. Then we made cards for them for mothers day and wrapped the presents. she was so secretive and giddy and
winked at me once when i covered for her.
One of her friends came over and at one point they were showing me the dances they had learned to Kesha's tick tock. I had to listen to like like 5 times in a row. Its a very long song. very long.
Well when her friend left she got ready for bed. but on her red pjs and then got out her grass hula skirt. She then put on the Waka waka song and started to dance. :) i love this kid.
oh anyone interested in Aupairing for a family for the summer?? Anywhere from one to 3 months and they can help with the ticket. I met the family tonight and they have a great 8 year old girl and a darling little year and a half year old who you wouldnt be required to take care of. Anyways its a sweet set up so let me know!
Someone posted this video on facebook and its so cute i have to post it! :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEN-kHe5o_Y
Take Care!
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