I just saw this trailer and it looks like an amazing movie, not to mention a dream come true!!! I know my little sister Elina would LOVE living in a zoo!! so cool!
here is the trailer to We Bought a Zoo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STXvAhrVP0U
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Besiktas Football
On Sunday I had the awesome opportunity to go to the Besiktas game with April and her friend Ali. he is a huge football fan of Besiktas so it was a lot of fun. People get super into football here. Even though they played bad (we won) it was still tons of fun and i hope i get to go again soon! :) (Besiktas is said like Beshiktash).
Here are a few photos of the fun.
Here are a few photos of the fun.
Summer Nails
I havent posted in quite a while...sorry
i also need to catch up on my journal writing. dang.
but i wanted to post something real quick for now that i have needed to for a month and just have not gotten around to. my bad.
Its just about a little fun i had with my nails this summer. I never really do too much with my nails since i easily get fed up with them but this was an experiment and it surprisingly turned out great i think. I figured this out at the end of summer which was a bit sad since now i am into fall colors. I have gotten a bunch of new colors and i plan to get even more fall and winter colors. I guess i have gotten polish happy but i cannot help it. In Turkey they literally have heaps and piles of nail polish of so many wonderful colors!
Here are a few pics of my summer nails and new colors! :)
i also need to catch up on my journal writing. dang.
but i wanted to post something real quick for now that i have needed to for a month and just have not gotten around to. my bad.
Its just about a little fun i had with my nails this summer. I never really do too much with my nails since i easily get fed up with them but this was an experiment and it surprisingly turned out great i think. I figured this out at the end of summer which was a bit sad since now i am into fall colors. I have gotten a bunch of new colors and i plan to get even more fall and winter colors. I guess i have gotten polish happy but i cannot help it. In Turkey they literally have heaps and piles of nail polish of so many wonderful colors!
Here are a few pics of my summer nails and new colors! :)
Monday, September 19, 2011
Welcome to Turkey!
Tomorrow is a very special day!! it is the day that the first Mediterranean Tour from BYU Idaho is coming to Istanbul!!!!! And guess who is coming!?! Tanae Clayson and another awesome friend Christine! Also Brother Palmer, the tour director from the Meso American tour i went on is coming too!! :) i couldnt be more excited!!! this is so freakin great! They will be here for only about 3 days which is sad and then they will visit the rest of Turkey and then go into Greece. I cannot wait to see them and show them around my city! This tour is part of the reason why i chose to come to Turkey. I wanted to go on the tour super bad but i need to work and not spend my money so when Turkey came up it had my interest! What an excellent choice it was too. I get to see my friends and fellow classmates and Tanae!! Especially awesome since she just got engaged! :)
I hope i can impress them with my Turkish skills but if not i know how to get around and buy things so i can help them out. I am going to meet them at the airport in the morning so i have to leave pretty early. I hope i can find them! that would be bad if i missed them .... i dont want the think about it. but things will be good. i know it!
I need to get some sleep so i can wake up and get there. They are in the air right now on there way here!!! i still cannot believe todays the day! :) gah!!!!! i think i am going to tackle tanae when i see her.....i think its a good idea...i dont think i can be stopped :)
well nighty night! :) one happy camper going to bed to wake up to a great day!!!
take care!!!
I hope i can impress them with my Turkish skills but if not i know how to get around and buy things so i can help them out. I am going to meet them at the airport in the morning so i have to leave pretty early. I hope i can find them! that would be bad if i missed them .... i dont want the think about it. but things will be good. i know it!
I need to get some sleep so i can wake up and get there. They are in the air right now on there way here!!! i still cannot believe todays the day! :) gah!!!!! i think i am going to tackle tanae when i see her.....i think its a good idea...i dont think i can be stopped :)
well nighty night! :) one happy camper going to bed to wake up to a great day!!!
take care!!!
You cant spell Tanae without Ana
Tanae Clayson is one of my most favorite people in my life! seriously she was one of my first roommates and we lived together for two years. During those two years we were best friend and we have been super close since. All that time together we were both new to the college life and agreed that we were not ready for marriage. Now that we are starting our fourth year at BYU Idaho we are both at the point where we are ready. Even though this seems natural for me to feel i never completely thought about what if Tanae got married. She has always been there for me and I have known all her boyfriends and such. I mean most times i was really good friends with them too! we would all hang out together and even though they would be dating it would not be super awkward.
I always thought that when she did find the right guy i would have been there through the whole thing. I would have been waiting to hear everything when she came back from her first date, i would have hung out with them both and been good friends, i would have helped him plan everything for when he would ask her to marry her, i would be there freaking out completely and she would do her Tanae thing and tell me to calm down. Then after the big question i would help her plan her wedding and everything!
So of course in the few months i am in Turkey she meets the one! i missed everything! let me tell you its been hard for me. When it comes down to it i am so freakin happy for her! and i know he must be an awesome guy since he chose her since she is so amazing! and i basically know how he is just because i know her so well. I am just so happy that i will get to see her this week and that i will be able to go to her wedding as soon as i get back stateside (no really the wedding is 3 days after i get back).
Tanae and I used to joke that you cannot spell tANAe without Ana which is true but now i have to pass my name on to her fiance, and i do so happily. He is the one who completes her. I cannot wait to met this guy!!! haha
So this is to you Tanae! You are one of my bestest friends! I love you so so so much! even though we have been through hard times it was all worth it. You are amazing and talented and beautiful and so much fun! I am so excited for you. I wish you all the best and more! I cannot wait to see you tomorrow and then see (at least be waiting outside the temple doors) you get married to the man of your dreams for all eternity when i get back.
You are my roomie forever and always! Tanae, i wish there was a way i could relive these last three years of my life with you because they were my best so far!
Love you nae nae!!!
Take Care everyone
Ana
I always thought that when she did find the right guy i would have been there through the whole thing. I would have been waiting to hear everything when she came back from her first date, i would have hung out with them both and been good friends, i would have helped him plan everything for when he would ask her to marry her, i would be there freaking out completely and she would do her Tanae thing and tell me to calm down. Then after the big question i would help her plan her wedding and everything!
So of course in the few months i am in Turkey she meets the one! i missed everything! let me tell you its been hard for me. When it comes down to it i am so freakin happy for her! and i know he must be an awesome guy since he chose her since she is so amazing! and i basically know how he is just because i know her so well. I am just so happy that i will get to see her this week and that i will be able to go to her wedding as soon as i get back stateside (no really the wedding is 3 days after i get back).
Tanae and I used to joke that you cannot spell tANAe without Ana which is true but now i have to pass my name on to her fiance, and i do so happily. He is the one who completes her. I cannot wait to met this guy!!! haha
So this is to you Tanae! You are one of my bestest friends! I love you so so so much! even though we have been through hard times it was all worth it. You are amazing and talented and beautiful and so much fun! I am so excited for you. I wish you all the best and more! I cannot wait to see you tomorrow and then see (at least be waiting outside the temple doors) you get married to the man of your dreams for all eternity when i get back.
You are my roomie forever and always! Tanae, i wish there was a way i could relive these last three years of my life with you because they were my best so far!
Love you nae nae!!!
Take Care everyone
Ana
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Meso America 2010 slide show
Last summer i had one of the most amazing experiences of my life. i went on the meso american tour 2010 with my school. Tanae clayson went weith me and i made so of the best friends i have on the tour. i wanted to help make the slideshow so i made one before but the program i used expired so it didnt work anymore. lame right. i had to remake it but i put it off for months and months and now the Mediterranean tour is coming to Istanbul and the tour director from the Meso American tour Brother Palmer is going on this tour as well. I decided now was the time to get it done. so i finally finished it now! i hope this works. i am going to try and post it here! it is not as great as i hoped it could be but this is what i got and what i could do with what i had! :)
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Hope
Lately I have been super stressed. once one thing stresses me out, then everything else that could stress me out crashes over me and i have a meltdown.. this is good sometimes so i can get back on track with everything but it still sucks. Saturday night i was feeling just terrible and i went to bed early but i could not fall asleep for the life of me because the stress thing happened. the way i get things like this off my mind so i can sleep peacefully is by writing it down and so i was up and down writing things and sitting in my destressing position on the floor in the dark (sitting on my shoulders with my legs and butt in the air) but nothing was really working. it did give me time to think through a lot of things. Anyways i have been freaking out about everything since but slowly (especially with the help of my family, namely my amazing mother) taking it one day at a time i am figuring things out. I have been blessed that some amazing things have happened and pulled through such as my host family helping me with my trip to France to get my vise renewed, and my host mom working with a guy who needs to practice his english and is going to pay me pretty well for a few hours of working with him a week. Well my branch president talked to me and advised me to study topics in my studies instead of just reading through the scriptures. this week we decided i was to study hope since i have been stressing out about so many things. tonight i read an amazing talk by President Uchtdorf about it. I suggest anyone and everyone to read it. He is an amazing speaker and I always love hearing his words and stories. http://lds.org/general-conference/2008/10/the-infinite-power-of-hope?lang=eng&query=hope
Here is also a great scripture in the Book of Mormon that i looked at and i love Ether 12:4
take care! i will write more soon!
Ana
Here is also a great scripture in the Book of Mormon that i looked at and i love Ether 12:4
take care! i will write more soon!
Ana
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Sunglasses and Turkish commercials
So.... a few weeks ago i met this German girl who is living in Istanbul at the hostel i was staying at. We talked and became friends and the next day she came back and asked me if i wanted to be in an eyewear commercial. Of course i wanted to do it but it turns out that I was going to be in Cesme when they were going to shoot. Dang it right! but this commercial was for the brand Karen Walker and this was their opening into the Turkish market so they wanted a Turkish commercial with no Turkish people in it. Weird but ok. So even though i could not be in it i know quite a few foreigners here in Istanbul who are Aupairs, church members, on the Turkish language groups and such so i said i would help them find more people. Turns out I was able to help them alot so i got to see several of my friends be on the commercial!!! here is the finished product which is so amazing!! i love it!
I was able to meet the director and producer and become friends with them so hopefully they will have another project that I can work with them on again.
ok ok here is the Karen Walker Video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A3JQYMxNFY
I was able to meet the director and producer and become friends with them so hopefully they will have another project that I can work with them on again.
ok ok here is the Karen Walker Video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A3JQYMxNFY
Sunday, September 11, 2011
9/11 one for the History Books
You can ask almost any American what they remember about 9/11 2001 and I bet they could tell you exactly where they were when they found out. This was one of those moments along with Steve Irwin and Michael Jacksons that you never forget.
for me.....
I remember waking up and going downstairs to see my two sisters sitting in front of the TV freaking out about something to do with planes and such. At that point i didnt really care to be honest, i just wanted to get to school on time. It was not until I was in my third period Earth Science Class with Mrs Adams did i really understand what was going on. By that point the towers had been hit and my teacher turned the tv on (which was hardly ever used) and we watched the tower get hit again and again as the news channel replayed the footage they had. we sat there watching the towers burn not really believing or understanding just how big of a deal this really was (we were little 6th graders). I was baffled. I think i might have even cried (i was an emotional child). Our teacher told us that she thinks she is not supposed to show us this but her interest is too drawn to turn it off, and we didnt want her to.
Later on that day things only got worse. My Dad worked for NASA and his building was in Edwards Airforce Base. When we got home from school no one was there. My older sister tried and tried to call my dad but he was impossible to reach. You can say that the three of us were freaking out. I think my mom had tried to go to the base to see him or something. I am not sure. I just remember wondering what had happened to my dad and thinking of all the things that could be happening. Finally the call from him came. Turns out that they were not letting anyone out of the base and when they finally did it was a slow process to get out. I was so scarred. And yet it was not over. over the next months hell and hope were everywhere. It was a pain to get in and out of the base or fly. you kept hearing stories about another bomber being discovered on a plane trying to light his shoelace or something. Fear was a disease. Innocent people were being persecuted and tried and hurt mostly just because they were Muslim or from the Middle East. I felt so bad for them, it was not them that were wrong but it was us, we became the terrorist in our own country to our own members. Even though it has greatly improved there is still hate against Muslims. I am sad to say that my church seems to have many people who feel this way including my own grandmother and other extended family members. They were afraid and worried about me going to a Muslim country to live and work but I am proud to say that I would not trade being here for the 10th anniversary of that dreadful day. I think it could not have been a more appropriate place that after 10 years and 2 wars and countless hours, deaths, and money spent in cause of this event I am here in Turkey seeing first hand how amazing and wonderful these people are. We all have enemy's, we all have struggles, but lets not let that distract us from the beauty of the people and the world around us. After 10 years its time to heal. There is good and bad in everything, lets find the good again. All of my love and prayers go out to all those who were affected by what happened today 10 years ago. We shouldnt have to be remembering this day. But we cannot control it. To all those brave people who dies and fought and families who were affected God Bless. I am proud to be an American.
Take care
Ana
for me.....
I remember waking up and going downstairs to see my two sisters sitting in front of the TV freaking out about something to do with planes and such. At that point i didnt really care to be honest, i just wanted to get to school on time. It was not until I was in my third period Earth Science Class with Mrs Adams did i really understand what was going on. By that point the towers had been hit and my teacher turned the tv on (which was hardly ever used) and we watched the tower get hit again and again as the news channel replayed the footage they had. we sat there watching the towers burn not really believing or understanding just how big of a deal this really was (we were little 6th graders). I was baffled. I think i might have even cried (i was an emotional child). Our teacher told us that she thinks she is not supposed to show us this but her interest is too drawn to turn it off, and we didnt want her to.
Later on that day things only got worse. My Dad worked for NASA and his building was in Edwards Airforce Base. When we got home from school no one was there. My older sister tried and tried to call my dad but he was impossible to reach. You can say that the three of us were freaking out. I think my mom had tried to go to the base to see him or something. I am not sure. I just remember wondering what had happened to my dad and thinking of all the things that could be happening. Finally the call from him came. Turns out that they were not letting anyone out of the base and when they finally did it was a slow process to get out. I was so scarred. And yet it was not over. over the next months hell and hope were everywhere. It was a pain to get in and out of the base or fly. you kept hearing stories about another bomber being discovered on a plane trying to light his shoelace or something. Fear was a disease. Innocent people were being persecuted and tried and hurt mostly just because they were Muslim or from the Middle East. I felt so bad for them, it was not them that were wrong but it was us, we became the terrorist in our own country to our own members. Even though it has greatly improved there is still hate against Muslims. I am sad to say that my church seems to have many people who feel this way including my own grandmother and other extended family members. They were afraid and worried about me going to a Muslim country to live and work but I am proud to say that I would not trade being here for the 10th anniversary of that dreadful day. I think it could not have been a more appropriate place that after 10 years and 2 wars and countless hours, deaths, and money spent in cause of this event I am here in Turkey seeing first hand how amazing and wonderful these people are. We all have enemy's, we all have struggles, but lets not let that distract us from the beauty of the people and the world around us. After 10 years its time to heal. There is good and bad in everything, lets find the good again. All of my love and prayers go out to all those who were affected by what happened today 10 years ago. We shouldnt have to be remembering this day. But we cannot control it. To all those brave people who dies and fought and families who were affected God Bless. I am proud to be an American.
Take care
Ana
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