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Shrar · 08-08-2009, 09:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mojopinuk

Today I am leaving to go to Scotland for the week with the family. Leave in about an hour. Cant wait to get away for a bit.

dont forget to sing loch lomond with your hand on your heart all the way north "patriotic sniffles"

jibber · 08-08-2009, 02:48 PM

I worked the morning shift, made a ****load of fresh orange juices for customers, a few banana smoothies and took a lot of drink orders. I told a boat-load of aussies (literally, they'd just finished a boat cruise) all about bus schedules and tours our hostel offers, and after work walked down the path past a group of 2000 year old ruins and to the beautiful beach 10 minutes away from me. Then I went back to our hostel, worked on my online TEFL course for a couple of hours, and now im killing time before the other girls finish their night shift so we can have our movie night.

I accidentally moved to turkey this summer. I'm currently living at a hostel at a beach resort on the southern mediterranean coast working behind the bar. In september I'll move to istanbul to teach english and save up money so i can travel the middle east next year. I meant to come home on the first of june. oops.

adidasss · 08-08-2009, 02:58 PM

Accidentally moved to Turkey. :| Your life is incredible.

jibber · 08-08-2009, 03:02 PM

I started off just traveling for a month in turkey. then i stumbled into a job at the hostel and pushed my return ticket back a month. then i decided i wanted to stay for the summer and pushed it back to the end of august. then I decided i didnt want to go home at all and cancelled my reservation for my return flight altogether. after that i heard how easy it was to get a teaching job in istanbul, and since pretty much everyone working in the town i live in now will be in istanbul over the winter, it was a pretty easy decision. so i accidentally moved to turkey.

adidasss · 08-08-2009, 03:05 PM

Wow.

midnight rain · 08-08-2009, 03:20 PM

Turkey is amazing. My family took a week long (or two, I forget) trip there and we hit up Selçuk, Cappadocia, and Istanbul. All of them were awesome and very different from each other. I strongly recommend visiting Selçuk and Cappadocia if you get the chance, they both are so much different from anything in North America.

Selçuk

Cappadocia

Istanbul

By the way, did anyone else besides me notice the Tags in this thread?

Freebase Dali · 08-08-2009, 03:23 PM

There sure are a lot of phallic objects in Turkey.

adidasss · 08-08-2009, 03:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

There sure are a lot of phallic objects in Turkey.

Yeah, I was watching a documentary about Turkey the other day and they had a segment about those odd rock formations which they named "chimneys". I was like...that's not exactly what comes to mind when I see those things...*gigglegigglehappysigh*

But yeah, very jelous of anyone who's been to Turkey, it looks like an amazing place to visit/live in.

gunnels · 08-08-2009, 04:09 PM

Gonna go to Istanbul next summer

Those pics are awesome z.

Double X · 08-08-2009, 04:40 PM

I wish I could have seen Hagia Sophia before it was islamafied and pillaged by catholics, not that it isn't amazing now though.

08-08-2009, 02:48 PM	#9402 (permalink)
jibber Freeskier Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Istanbul was Constantinople now it's Istanbul not Constantinople... Posts: 1,536	I worked the morning shift, made a ****load of fresh orange juices for customers, a few banana smoothies and took a lot of drink orders. I told a boat-load of aussies (literally, they'd just finished a boat cruise) all about bus schedules and tours our hostel offers, and after work walked down the path past a group of 2000 year old ruins and to the beautiful beach 10 minutes away from me. Then I went back to our hostel, worked on my online TEFL course for a couple of hours, and now im killing time before the other girls finish their night shift so we can have our movie night. I accidentally moved to turkey this summer. I'm currently living at a hostel at a beach resort on the southern mediterranean coast working behind the bar. In september I'll move to istanbul to teach english and save up money so i can travel the middle east next year. I meant to come home on the first of june. oops. __________________ What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass. HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER

08-08-2009, 02:58 PM	#9403 (permalink)
adidasss Slavic gay sauce Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Abu Dhabi Posts: 7,993	Accidentally moved to Turkey. :\| Your life is incredible. __________________ “Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle. Last.fm

08-08-2009, 03:02 PM	#9404 (permalink)
jibber Freeskier Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Istanbul was Constantinople now it's Istanbul not Constantinople... Posts: 1,536	I started off just traveling for a month in turkey. then i stumbled into a job at the hostel and pushed my return ticket back a month. then i decided i wanted to stay for the summer and pushed it back to the end of august. then I decided i didnt want to go home at all and cancelled my reservation for my return flight altogether. after that i heard how easy it was to get a teaching job in istanbul, and since pretty much everyone working in the town i live in now will be in istanbul over the winter, it was a pretty easy decision. so i accidentally moved to turkey. __________________ What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass. HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER

08-08-2009, 03:05 PM	#9405 (permalink)
adidasss Slavic gay sauce Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Abu Dhabi Posts: 7,993	Wow. __________________ “Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle. Last.fm

08-08-2009, 03:23 PM	#9407 (permalink)
Freebase Dali Partying on the inside Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 5,584	There sure are a lot of phallic objects in Turkey. __________________

08-08-2009, 03:20 PM	#9406 (permalink)
midnight rain Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,711	Turkey is amazing. My family took a week long (or two, I forget) trip there and we hit up Selçuk, Cappadocia, and Istanbul. All of them were awesome and very different from each other. I strongly recommend visiting Selçuk and Cappadocia if you get the chance, they both are so much different from anything in North America. Selçuk Cappadocia Istanbul By the way, did anyone else besides me notice the Tags in this thread?

08-08-2009, 04:40 PM	#9410 (permalink)
Double X sleepe Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: boston Posts: 1,140	I wish I could have seen Hagia Sophia before it was islamafied and pillaged by catholics, not that it isn't amazing now though.