GREETINGS FROM TURKEY

Someone told me that as an exchange student you should say yes to everything. And because of that I drink at least five glasses of tea a day. But that is totally OK with me because the tea here is wonderful, and so is everything else except maybe for learning Turkish because Turkish is an extremely difficult language.


I´ve been in Turkey for a month now and I´ve been going to school for two weeks and a lot has happened but mostly just everyday things. I really like my school because everyone is very nice and the lunch is (mostly) very good. Also you can buy chocolate in between every class!!! And instead of switching classrooms, the teachers move around which is really nice because there is no rush to get somewhere else. There are also only 11 kids in my class which is smaller than any class I´ve had in elementary school. My school is an elementary school, middle school, and high school all together which is cool because sometimes little kids will come up to me and ask me my name in English. I think next week the other exchange students and I will get to start teaching little kids English!!! I´m excited about that because I think it will really help with learning Turkish.

I know a lot of exchange students say that they start to forget their own language when they go abroad, and I  don´t think that has really been an issue for me yet except I am typing on my Mexican friend´s computer so it says that I am spelling almost every word wrong anyways so I don´t know if I´m making a lot of mistakes or not.

Also the food here is delicious!! I´m really good at taking all of the bones out of a fish now which was an issue for me when I first got here. Breakfast involves a lot more food than I am used to but that is OK because it is good. Every morning I have a bowl of coco puffs or cornflakes and a piece of toast with honey and some tea. Somedays I have cucumber and tomato as well. Last night my host mom held up a green mango shaped fruit and asked me what it was in English and I said I didn´t know and she told me it was an avocado!! Then I ate some and it was super good because it was so fresh.


I will try to blog more often now because I suppose blogging is not that bad, and I will post some pictures next week! I miss everyone at home very much but I haven´t been homesick at all. Being in Mersin is quite different from Athens but I love it all the same and am so excited for the rest of my year.