Taylan and Nehir eating breakfast.
Taylan snoozing with Baba.
Nehir took this picture of Taylan.
Nehir sleeping with his new transformer on his pillow.
Nehir's birthday party.
On Wednesday we celebrated the day that Turkey became a Republic (as opposed to a kingdom). Nehir's school had an assembly in the morning, and a march at night. The assembly was disorganized and Nehir's class didn't do anything. The march, however, was quite fun. We met at the High School and were given torches. We then marched down the road -with the marching band leading the way- heading towards Ataturk's house. Before the marching band kicked in I really felt like we were in one of those scenes from an old monster movie - the angry villiagers bearing torches and pitch forks. It made me laugh. Our little march soon merged into a much larger crowd. The torches started to seem dangerous and I got a little claustrophobic, but it was still fun. We walked down to Ortakoy where we caught most of the fireworks. On the way people sang patriotic songs and chanted "Turkey is secular and secular it will stay!" It was fun.
On Wednesday we celebrated the day that Turkey became a Republic (as opposed to a kingdom). Nehir's school had an assembly in the morning, and a march at night. The assembly was disorganized and Nehir's class didn't do anything. The march, however, was quite fun. We met at the High School and were given torches. We then marched down the road -with the marching band leading the way- heading towards Ataturk's house. Before the marching band kicked in I really felt like we were in one of those scenes from an old monster movie - the angry villiagers bearing torches and pitch forks. It made me laugh. Our little march soon merged into a much larger crowd. The torches started to seem dangerous and I got a little claustrophobic, but it was still fun. We walked down to Ortakoy where we caught most of the fireworks. On the way people sang patriotic songs and chanted "Turkey is secular and secular it will stay!" It was fun.
Halloween came and went without any party, they don't celebrate it here, obviously. I bought Nehir a couple candies and that was it. We went to a lovely park today. It was a forest tucked inside the city and overlooking the Bosphorus. It was a great place to walk.
Taylan has learned to say Obama and really knows who he is. I am so proud : )
GO OBAMA!
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