So i am super super excited because tomorrow we will fly to Bodrum for 4 days!! woot woot! Bodrum is a city on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and its basically a summer home area for the rich and famous. Its a great place with a bunch of stuff going on i guess. My family is planning to get an apartment there and stay there this summer for a month or two. Kelly will be there this summer with her family so it will be great. we actually might buy an apartment right next to them! Here are some pictures of Bodrum from online
Today I met with some other Aupairs for lunch. It was really fun and i met two new girls! they are really great but both of them are a bit older. I was the youngest one there. Aley, Kelly and I are the youngest ones so far of the aupairs. more will come for the summer so we will see.
Yesterday I went with the family to what i thought was going to be a 3 year olds birthday party which was true but there was only a few cousins there and Zeynep. The rest of the party was for the Grandpa so there was a bunch of adults there. Everyone was dressed up and drinking wine. It was fancy. They had a bbq which was a paid person cooking the meat and serving everyone and the housekeepers bringing out the rest of the foods and such. So according to tradition on a big occasion they had a couple belly dancers preform. It was basically a more talented stripper! They were wearing almost nothing, super ugly, with bug boobs. They even had quite a bit of chub which made me feel better :)
They would go dance on the men and the men would put money in her bra thing. She got bank too! They were putting 100 lyra bills up in there! It was really sad cuz the kids were watching and one of the belly dancers even had her mom there watching and clapping along. She was this little old traditional looking Turkish woman but she was encouraging her daughter to be a belly dancing stripper. A girl said her mom is the one who sets up her appointments and such. Yudum asked me what i thought this morning. She said that in Turkey they dont have strip clubs or pole dancers or any place like that, they only have belly dancers and it is not one on one ever like a lap dance. They only get them on big occasions. It was still weird seeing the women encouraging the belly dancer to dance with their husbands. At least now i can say i have seen a belly dancer! I need to get a new camera or something soon! I will have to take pictures next time i see one.
so i guess i have a little in me left. Emi got here on Wed morning and i was worried we would be late. We were rushing the whole time to get to Takism square and then find the shuttle to get to the airport. Even thought Emis plane had landed over a half hour before we waited for over an hour for her to come out. The Visa lines are killer. We decided to take the metro into the city again after we looked at a map and planed out how to get to where we were going. We were sitting on the metro just talking and catching up. When we were getting close to where we were getting off and switching we took out the map and the guy sitting next to us pointed out that we had it wrong. Apparently we had to walk a ways to the next metro. He spoke great English and he was sitting to us the whole time acting like he only spoke Turkish! lol he was super super cute! And really nice! He took us to the next metro and rode with us until we got to where we wanted to go. He was so friendly and i was really hoping he would ask for our number but he did say that its a small world and we would probably see each other again. I sure hope so! :)
We wanted to go to the Blue Mosque but before we went and got Kofte which is the Turkish meatballs. It was super good and Emi loved it. I got to impress her with my limited Turkish skills as i ordered our lunch! That made me happy that i was the one taking care of her!
We just looked at the mosques real quick and i got her the candy stuff and tasted like gummy bears. She really liked that lol
We went and found the grand bazaar which was my first time there. It was big and everything was more official. not like the other markets and i like. People knew how to cheat Americans there but we were good at bargaining and got some sweet bowls and Emi even got some Turkish delight! I got to treat her to everything it was fun! While trying to find our way back to the metro to get back to Taksim we went through the spice bazaar real quick and we got to see the Bosphorus. Basically Emi got a short glimpse of Istanbul in only 3 and a half hours. We said goodbye to Kelly at Taksim and then emi and i went down the walking street until we decided on ice cream and sat to talk before i had to take her to the airport shuttle. The time went by way to quick but it was still so good to see her. I missed her and i loved being able to show her MY city and on my 1 monthaversary too!!! Awesome day with two awesome girls! She brought me top ramen too! :) I have not heard from her since then so i am a bit worried but i am sure she is overwhelmed with her new country and internship. I hope to hear from her soon! well its bed time,
nighty night!
take care!!
talk to you after Bodrum!!!!! :)
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