My Monthaversary

Sorry i have not posted in like a week. i always have stuff that i want to write about but then i get lazy and dont want to type a bunch.
well  i will start off venting and then get to the good stuff.
this week Zeynep has been a real pain. There were two days where i just about lost it. she had no respect, and would not listen to me. I felt like the help. I was not ok with that at all and if it was not for my awesome friends Alley and Kelly who was there for me i might have. She was the biggest brat to me one day and we were at Kellys where i had broken down crying for a while and  watched a movie while the kids played downstairs. at the ending of our stay she came with Erin, snuck into kellys room, turned off the lights and jumped on me and kelly. From that moment everything was great like nothing was wrong. The next day she was great with me but then a brat to Havva and her mom and today she was great all around. I wonder what tomorrow will be like?? Anyways i think it had alot to do with her dad dying, i thought it was going to hit her a few weeks later and guess what....its been two weeks. she has this weird thing where she bits of the skin on her thumb and lately its been really bad. its raw skin like when you pop a blister now, she cannot even grip her tennis racket. Oh and i think she is stealing from people from school and her friends. Ever since her dad died she had been getting a ton of stuff from her friends at school. she says they give her these full pencil packs with markers, gell pens, pencils and erasers. She has gotten like 4 more pouches, tons more pens, mighty beans, and things. Kelly said that a bunch of Erins stuff has gone missing, she described some of the stuff and it sounds familiar. Erin lost a bunch of mighty beans and zeynep got a bunch of new ones so i showed kelly all zeyneps beans and kelly picked out all the ones erin lost, they were all zeyneps new ones. We want to make sure that this is what is going on before we talk to the parents. And this next week we are going to Bodrum with Kellys family so it would be best to work it out after.

This week has been great other than that. kelly and i went out on our own on tuesday and we figured out how to get around a bit on our own it was great! we are so much more confident now. We met a new girl Bethany who is here with her sister Lacey who is working for humas family. She is super sweet, a little older than me but i really like her. Her family sounds insane though. All the kids do is read and go to their activities. They are all super smart in the family also i guess.

On wed. it was my monthaversary of coming to Turkey! Crazy right! I have lived in another country for a month! I can get around the city, talk enough to buy something, order food and get around. its amazing here and i cannot imagine doing anything else with my summer. Kelly was a month the day before so we got to celebrate together.
It was perfect because i also got to see my sister. I will have to write about the tomorrow since i am soooo tired right now. but things are great.
Oh today Zeynep went to a birthday party. The house is super nice and big. its not as big as houses in the US but here it is a mansion! its three floors and has an elevator! no lie! an elevator!! it also has a huge kitchen, giant bar downstaires, and a big pool. that was all of the house that i saw. the party was so ligit. these kids get so much swag its boggling. they had manicures, makeup, and hairdressers. They all got a custom shirt with their names printed on them, a tutu, hat clip thing, and a purse with different things inside. it was insane! oh and the cake was a coture purse that looked like the cake boss made it or something.

Today Zeynep wanted to make earrings for her teacher since it was her birthday but we didnt have any real materal so we took twist ties (the kind on your bread) and took the wire from that. We used her beads and sewing thread and the wire to make the earrings. it sounds totally getto and it would be if it was not an 8 year old making them but it was genius also! it really worked. i kind of like the ones i made for me also. :)

well bed time. I will write tomorrow i hope.
take care!