Our outing yesterday was a big success. Nehir was very excited about the ruins and pretended he was Indiana Jones (he knows him from the legos, not the movies). I was really happy to see how much he enjoyed himself and when we said it was time to go, he said "not yet!" No whining at all. We then went to Sirince and had a wonderful lunch of gozleme (flat bread with filling inside cooked on a big pan over a fire), ayran (yoghurt drink) and sarma (stuffed grape leaves). Sirince is a village on a mountain near Selcuk. It used to be a Greek village but when the exchange was enforced, (Turks and Greeks living in each others' countries were forced back to their own countries) Turks moved in. It has been beautifully restored or preserved, I am not sure which. All the buildings are white with wooden details. The streets are very steep and made of stone. The villagers make their money through tourism, farming and making wine. Selcuk says that it is a hide-away for very wealthy Turks. We bought Nehir a tiny snow-globe that he admired.
When we got home Nehir put his new snow-globe in his room and then he and Selcuk went for a bike-ride. Later I went for a "nature walk" with Nehir and the neighbor's kid so we could collect beautiful things for Nehir to decorate his room with. He picked a bunch of leaves and flowers, including some nane (nahnay) or mint so his room would smell nice.
Nehir has been asking me weird questions like "Why don't humans have two heads?" and "What happens if I get fired from my job making movies?" I don't know why he is worried about getting fired from a hypothetical job, this is not something Selcuk and I worry about in our own lives, but I guess he heard of "being fired" and decided he needed to worry about it. He is a strange little boy at times, but so funny.
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