Weekend

Wow, finally this week is over.
It couldn't have been sooner. Thou the day started out a bit weirdly.

So I left the house at 7.10 this morning. I was enjoying the nice weather, it was pretty warm for being around 7ish, listening to Bebe and Veronica Maggio, it was a great morning. Or at least 5 min.
Do you guys remember the time when some dogs attacked me on  my way home?

Well, I come to the poor-peoples house where there usually are 3 dogs and a million cats.

From far I see one of the dogs, just sitting there staring at me.

It stands up and starts waving its tail.

It leans forward, head down, ass up, tail moving faster; it wanted to play, or it was happy.

I wasn't.

It starts barking and starts running (in a some what skipping way) towards me, as if thou I was its owner, or even a fun toy.

The worst part was that the two other dogs followed it. Barking.

At this point I got a bit scared to say the least. Cus you could tell they were gonna jump up on me.

And so they did.

These are free dogs, probably full of lice and might have rabies (who knows). So I just stood there, stiff as a stick, half screaming No... I repeated this for some mins while they were standing around me with their tails moving all over.

All of a sudden, since I gave them no attention they started becoming angry.

At this point I just turned around, trying to ignore the dogs touching me, to find an alternative route to the bus.

I did find one, with an additionl up hill, which I hate, especially in the mornings.

Well, I survived this weird dog attack. But I have to admit it was abít surprising.

Tomorrow I will probably laugh about it; the vision of that dog being so increadibly happy to see me (someone) was quite funny and cute... as I said, the problem is that you don't really know what kinda problems these dogs have.

Anywho, had the macro exam today, went very bad.

But most importantly, it's mayfest in Bilkent. Some kinda festival, I will try to go tomorrow.

Off I go to enjoy the nice weather.

Puss

It's all good...

Today I'm home alone. No company except for the computer and the Macro book.

I actually like Macro, it's interesting.
How everything is connected and which role and power the government has on us.

Anywho, this weekend I hope that I, in some way, will be able to celebrate my newly found intelligence, which can be seen in my recent grades, and the fact that midterm period 2 is over!
I have someone in mind I wouldn't mind celebrating with, but well... situations are complicated, as always when it comes to me!
Well I'm crossing my fingers, or holding my thumb as we say in Swe (where crossing fingers would imply you lying).

Also, Bettina is coming back to Ankara on Friday 3 a.m or well saturday 3 a.m. She's been gone over a month. It will be really nice not being the only girl around + like that I can go meet up with someone without being joined by my dear father.

Btw, lately I've noticed that my friends on FB changes with +-4 from time to time, this without me accepting anyone or anyone accepting me. Is this people who have stopped using FB but then comes back? It's a tad weird.

Yesterday we had dinner with Esat, which I might have said. It was really nice, we went to that "newly" opened turkish restaurant I talked about before. Something with G. We went there when Bettina was here on a visit.
The food there is amazing.
I almost rolled out from there when we were done.

Oh, I passed by the office yesterday before going home.
Wanted a ride from my dad.
Esat and I decided on a date when I can start working.
June 1st is my first day at AES/IC.
The IT guy, Mustafa, was very happy and said he had a lot he needed help with.
When will they understand I dont know shit about computers.
I don't even know how to change from single space to double space in word.

Well, I'm sure this wasn't too interesting or inspiring to read. But well, we all have bad days and this is one of mine.

** In the menue to your left you have some kinda MP3 Amazon thinge... it's pretty nice. Short versions of songs... alternative rock, because I like that.
One of them isn't too much alternative rock, but still very good it's this one:

Anyways, I'm trying to watch Shutter Island.
It's actually pretty ok.

Have a nice night now...
PUSS

* I took today's picture in Helsinki last summer

An A-student...

Yes, against all odds I actually became one.
Or at least that is what it seems like.

The innovation teacher told me I was one of the best on the exam we did last week. YAY.
I also passed the 2nd CCM exam with 80/100 and the Micro one, lets just say I got a C (with, of course, a consideration for the doubtful grading system here).
Not bad at all I have to say, seems as if thou worrying about passing classes is a waste of time here at Bilkent.

Otherwise I finished writing the innovation report/homework/project yesterday and handed it in this morning. It actually seems alright. I hope she thinks so too. Like that I can ask her to write some kinda recommendation letter for me.

Not much has happened otherwise. Yesterday I spent writing and running around trying to fix the mess "l'imbécile" put me in; the blackberry.
Payed the tl 130, send DHL the copy of the paper, now i need to fill in some form.

This is seriously going on my nerves. And the person responsible for the mess (I do not mind taking the consequences of forgetting the phone, but when someone doesn't listen...)should be happy I'm not close enough to do something about it.

Well, now I gotta study for the Macro midterm on friday, will write a bit more later.

puss

Similarities

There is one huge similarity between this monday and last monday.

Do you remember that I told you I sat outside for 3h in the sun and got a bit of a sun burn??

Some people might learn from their past mistakes. No, I correct myself, MOST people learn from (at least this kinda) past mistakes.
Did I?

Not really.

I did worse.
Whereas last week I got a bit of red color, this week I actually more or less burnt my skin.
It is very red and hurts.
Especially my legs (where it's mostly concentrated on my knees).

One would think that a 25, almost 26 or even 30, year old university student would know better...
Well, she doesn't.

Now I'm in pain.

This weekend was rather interesting.

Saturday after I wrote my depressing post my dad and I went down to the park. Took a long (read 20 min) walk, which resulted in some muscle pain (Ass n legs) for him.
We had a nice time, it was warm, we laughed at the semi-soviet-communist inspired statues, we laughed less at my dads feet that started hurting after a while (he was wearing some slippers).

We stopped for lunch, but they didn't serve lunch.
The lady offered us breakfast.

My dad accepted.

So there we sat in the warm sun, sharing a boiled egg, some slices of tomato and cucumber and talked about how different Turkey is to what you expect coming down here.

Then we went home, I pretended to read some articles when I actually was watching random shows.

Then I went out for a couple of glasses of wine with Dan. It was nice.

Yesterday nothing special happened.
Lunch
Bazaar (didn't have DVD's or sunglasses)
Panora mall
Couch

Dinner time came. My dad had to go for a "business dinner" with Jeff and Dan, I wasn't invited.
Well, as custom has it I went to Burger King and also dropped by the supermarket to get some popcorn.

This is when my luck turned.

1. They didn't sell Turkcell credit; Turkcell yok the guy screamed. I hurried away when he didn't stop and pushed a red butten.

2. In BK I ordered a Whopper Jr. Cheese with a large (Swedish standards) pepsi, menu yok (no menu)
I got a cheesburger with a HUGE pepsi (About a liter) and a huge fries.

3. I noticed I had forgotten my keys. My dad said they were gonna eat in Las Chicas. So I tried to go there. I thought it was in Filestin/Filistin cad., of course it wasn't. We finally agreed on a direction, but there was no Las Chicas, they'd closed.

WTF, no credit, no keys.

So I had to find a place where I could buy credit.
I couldn't see any stores. But I could see the Sheraton.
I went there.
Got my self some kinda key and was directed towards the mall just next to there.
Found the Turkcell store, wanted to pay buy credit card, but: credit card yok...

FUCK!

Finally got my credit, got a hold of my dad; they were in "the house cafe", walked there, sat through a 1½, if not 2h long power station discussion. But it was all ok because the company was nice...

GOD....

Well... Micro exam today. It went as good as one would expect
Now I need to work on the last 3 pages of innovation management.

PUSS

Post-drinking

I am a bit tired.
A lot of questions going around in my head...
One of which is...
Why am I not out on the balcony in the sun?

This is a good, thought through question.

I'm trying to tell myself to wait a min or two...

I will write a bit more later...

puss

Maybe better

I just got home.

I'm not too happy.

The only thing i gotta remind myself of is to not go down that road again, not to deliberatly get hurt.

I always do that, I put myself in situations where for sure I will get, either dissapointed or sad.

Ignoring that I had a nice night.

Puss

Inefficiancy at its essence

The day has been extremely beautiful.
Not a cloud on the sky (still) and an increadibly sun.

If you read the earlier post you know I wanted to do something.

We didn't. This is what we did.

* We went to have lunch. While eating we looked at the people praying outside of the mosque.
This is quite interesting actually. I never understood why they are building new ones everywhere when no one ever goes (this I know since we have one just down our house, very disturbing during the prayers)?
Well maybe it is because for the friday mid day mass/prayer the mosques are full.
The one across the street from the restaurant was so full people were, as I said, outside praying.
I would have taken a picture, but I didn't feel it was appropriate... and well, also I didn't have my camera (the first excuse is there just because it looks good).

* Then we went to Migros (grocery store) where, in accordance to our shopping habits we got beer, but on top of that we also got tomatos, cheese and salad. We're improving.
No longer are we shopping like bachelors, or how some people called it; homeless people.

* After that our excursion was over (about 1½h). We went home. I installed myself comfortably on the balcony. Shorts and tank top, no bikini today.
While enjoying the sun I read an article for my innovation paper but quickly abandonned since the tunes of Dave Matthews Band got me thinking about other things.
So instead I got some Economists; randomly read some articles while watching the turks working on the climbing wall.

This climbing wall is a subject of its own.
It has been half done for 3 months... they worked on it for a while just when I'd gotten here but quickly stopped.
Today they started again.
Well, they put up banners and posters, arranged some tables and chairs. We thought they would open it up.
But of course they didn't.
First of all, arranging all of the above (answer E, haha) took them the whole day, this would, in a different place have taken tops 2h.
But you know, the turks like to sit around in the shadow and rest.
And why not I say.
I like to rest too, maybe not in the shadow, but resting is underestimated.

Anywho, pappa is preparing a bbq, after that i'll b out n about.

* Found a picture of what they wanted Park Vadi to look like... it doesn't look like that...

PUSS

Vitamin D

That's what the sun "provides" us with right?
I don't really remember, and I am too lazy to actually google it.

So today is the 1st out of three days off.

My dad and I started out with a morning cigarette on the balcony, looking out on the clear blue sky and decided we should do something today.
I got ready, now I am waiting for him.

I don't know what we're gonna do. Nothing too crazy, who knows, maybe we'll go have lunch somewhere?!
I suggested we go to the castle.
He didn't want to.
The only other option here in Ankara is the Ataturk Mosuleum (or smth), i.e. his grave.
I don't think he'll wanna do that either.

While waiting for him I sat out on the balcony, enjoying the sun, really feeling how my body absorbed the vitamin D while reading the Economist.

I love the Economist. It is actually rather interestin.

Later on tonight (he said afternoon, I've learnt not to trust any type of given time with him) I will maybe go meet up with Dan.
We'll see.

All exchange students are out on adventure this weekend. I hope they have a great time and all get their asses back to Ankara without injurees (they are worse than me when it comes to drunken injurees).

Oh well, I'm off.

*In this post I give you a picture from my first trip to Istanbul, when it was stil snowy

PUSS

VACATION!

I completely forgot in my angerness;
I have 3 day vacation, starting, well... at 10.10 this morning!!!! YAY!

This of course is celebrated with some red wine. I don't see why not.
Red wine has recently become one of my closest friends, in a very non-alcoholic way.
A glass or two from time to time... I don't see why not.
I am also not embarassed to say that I drink a glass by my self from time to time.

*****

This post was about 3 times as long.

Talking about Tata cars and other extremely interesting things.

But blogger fucked up n deleted 2/3s of it.

I'm not happy about it, the wine makes it a bit better thou.

Oh well.

I'll tell you all I know about Tata tomorrow.

*The pic is of the fish I told you about in the first post of today*

PUSS

The luck turned... to the worse

Today started out good.

As I wrote earlier, the exam went good.
In fact, everything was fine until I went to the library. Then my luck turned.

I got a phone call.
Now, what you need to know is that; I never get phone calls.
Not only because I am unpopular because of my negative attitude (hihi) but also: because of this negative attitude I haven't been giving out my cell phone number.
3-4 people have it.
And I have theirs.

So when a number that I couldn't recognize called I became curious.

I should have known nothing good comes out from numbers you don't recognize.
It was DHL.

My phone finally reach Turkey.
Now many of you might wonder why this in any why could be negative. Well I will tell you.

Since someone, and no names will be mentioned out of respect, decided it would be a good idea to put down the price of the phone on the statement the Turkish customs, of course, will need me to pay for gettin it sent here.
I specifically asked the person NOT to write it there since I knew this would happen. But some people don't listen. Which I now have to take the consequence of.

So my phone is currently in the Ataturk airport in Istanbul and DHL would appreciate it if I came there to make the customs clearance. This I told him would not be possible since I am living in Ankara.
He then informed me that my option was to pay the tl 130 (€65) only to get it sent to the customs office in Ankara.
I will then have to go to Esenboga airport (about an hour from here) for a some sort of interview with the customs managers and then I will have to pay tl 150 (€75) in order to take the phone home.

Now in order to pay them all this money I will have to go to a bank and make a transfer to some account.

GOD.... I am VERY VERY pissed off. I mean... seriously!?

Anywho, I left the library angry and went to my Micro class.
Now this morning it took me about 30min to finish the exam (as I wrote earlier today) which means that I got out at 10.10ish.
My Micro class starts at 13.40

When I got there I was told it had been cancelled.

F**k it... I waited there for 3h3 for NOTHING.

Not happy.

Now I am back home. About to start with the Innovation homework that is due next week.

Before you click yourslef on to a different webpage, here are some pics from yesterday.
After having taken a picture people made the remark that I always smile in the same way... it is true. It is a technique I have polished since some 10 years now, this because the risk of a bad picture is lower that way!
So Giorgio said we should try to do the opposit. Him smiling, me being serious. This is the result.




Puss, et a plus

4h left

About an hour ago i handed in the ccm exam. It took me about 30 min to go throu all the questions twice. Im not sure if it was easy or if i didnt know better.
In consistency with the previous midterm the majority of the responses were, or at least i think, E or A, i.e. All of the above or i agree!!

For those wondering, last night was fun.
We met up in Tunus, benoit (who was late), ayse, giorgio and i. From there we walked to at greek restaurant, with a name that sounded slightly spanish, but of course i dont remember.
There we met up with ayse's friends.
A lot of starters were ordered. I ate a lot, especially bread (because i dont Believe in the stupid theory that bread makes you fat, stupidities, bread is amazing).
For me that would have been enough, but of course this was not the case.

At some point the question of which main course we wanted was asked: chicken or beef!?
I decided that i was more or less indifferent in between those two and said "whatever you want".

We continue talking, taking pictures and listening to two men playin what i, at first thought (and what it did sound like) was typical greek music.
This assumption made sense since we were in a greek place.
What i had forgotten was that turks arent too fond of the greek or greece.
The music they played was turkish.

All of a sudden i smell fish and notice the waitors storming in with 7 plates of fish, and to my horror they start serving it to us, wth, there had been no talk about fish, werent the options chicken or meat?
Oh well, luckly i had stuffed myself with bread n salad. A bit sad thou since i like greek food, and it also feels like €25 for some salad, bread, fruit n wine is a bit over the top.
But i did have a really good time so it was definetly worth it.

God, this has taken me 40min to write.

Will upload some photos later.

Puss

I'm a queen

Or at least that's what's on Spotify right now.
Bohemeian Rapsody just finished n now Don't stop me now.

So in a very short amount of time a lot has happened.

* I super glued my finger, thou it's not stuck to anything, I now have some kinda second skin.

So I have a question to all you engineers out there (You must use glue when you build things?! Especially the super sticky one, I mean in order to get those huge things to stick together) How the hell to you get it away without ripping off the skin (real) underneath? I would appreciate a quick response. And I know you're quite a few reading this, someone has to know.

* I also read up on the happenings of today. The world news. Le Monde, DN, Le Parisien, Aftonbladet n Expressen. The two latter because their news are ridiculously random.

Not only have I learnt that most airports in Europe are now open, but also that the youngest princess in Sweden is having relationship problems (Headline of Expressen) and that there is no risk in using a gel when performing oralsex (yes, very liberal, welcome to Sweden).

* Painted my toe nails. They needed some additional color. And of course I used the red O.P.I one, this, not only because I like red, but mostly because I recieved two for christmas; once again, thank you Fredrik n Anna-Karin. The only problem would be that I already had the exact same color.
This means that I have 3 O.P.I's, red. I do my nails once or twice a week, but try to change color.
The question is how long time it will take to finish the three?

* I called my dad. He's out on the (a) site. I am, if not mentioned before, a bit jealous. Wouldn't mind being there, at least for a while. This for various reasons (actually only one, but I think I sound smarter if I say various, plus then I don't have to explain)

* I laughed by myself in the shower. Not because there was anything in there that was particulary funny, but because of what I wrote about earlier.
Those sheeps, what if those would have been me bullshitting about random stuff! hihi, that made me laugh. Mostly the sheep part. Sheeps are funny.

* I have been listening to some nice music; Mana, Bacilos, while drinking a glass (a bit too full) of red wine.

So now you might be wondering when I had time to study. Well I found the time. Effective as I am I read slides while painting my nails, and drank some wine at the same time. Multitasking at its essence.

Maybe, but only maybe, I haven't read enough.
But there is still time. Not much thou.
Am leaving for dinner with some people from school (Benoit, Ayse, Giorgio, Pierre etc.) in 40 min.
I will try to come home early.
Emphasizing on try.

Now I will continue practising the art of multitasking: Wine, slides and enjoying the music.

The picture up there is in order for you to see my "tan" (sun burn).

Puss

1 over, 3 to go

The exam today went fine.
There was only one question to which I could not find the ccorresponding article(s).
I made some type of logic out of my answer anyways.

I don't know if I ever wrote about it here, but for the 15 first articles we had to read I was an increadibly effective and serious student and made summaries.

At some point I sent these summaries to Benoit since he had fallen a bit behind on his readings (he hadn't read a single one of them until very recently).

After the exam today I went out for, what some (read me), would call a celebratory cigarette.

It was a very good one, for those who wondered.

While I was standing there, enjoying the sun, a girl started talking to me about the exam. To be honest I had never seen her before, not in class nor anywhere else.
And there, all of a sudden, bluntly, she asks me if I'm the girl who had prepared the summaries.
I told her I wasn't sure; that, effectivly, I had prepared summaries, but that as far as I knew (know) I hadn't shared them with anybody BUT Benoit.

She asked for my name, for a split second I felt like making one up (because sometimes that's fun) but no one was there to witness my humor (except for her, but yeah... no).
On hearing my name she confirmed that I was the exchange student who had (kindly) shared my precious knowledge with well, many other students.

So when Benoit came outside this had to be cleared up.
Benoit confessed to having shared them with Akin, who obviously shared then with someone (could be plural) else who in turn shared them with another 6-7 people.
And who knows how long that went on for.

Quite hilarious I have to say. I am still a bit amazed that people used my summaries (they're not that good).

Anywho, today it was supposed to be rainy.
It is not. And since I am not as intelligent as I might seem (to the rest of the students in innovation managament) I decided that it would be a good idea to study for the CCM exam out on the blacony, in a bikini.
This was decided EVEN THOU I still have some sort of weird sun burn (concentrated on my nose). Sometimes I amaze myself with how I ignore my own advice on wellbeing.

My ass hurts btw... I walked down to Tunus two days in a row and now my "muscles" ace as hell. It feels as if thou I'm walking around like duck.

Oh well... This post was only in order for me to get a break from CCM. Now I gotta get back to that.
But I will tell you some more anecdotes about the Ankara life before going out. I have something on my mind... so...

Ps. The picture of this post is from the trip to Salen in Jan. It's quite funny.

Puss

Good times

I was supposed to go over the 39 innovation articles before the "sleep train" (as my pre-school teacher said) came to pick me up.

# Since the word supposed is present in the previous paragraph, and well, also because most of you know me, I hope you understand that the next paragraph will start with a but.

But, I got distracted by a conversation on skype.
Remembering and missing the good old days of popcorn, sparkling wine and Bon Iver is now what is left after hanging up.

Right now I'm hanging out in the bathtub, it's quite nice.
Warm, bubbly and comforting.

Figured I would take a well deserved half hour break of my already busy and emotional day.

Watch the latest episode of whatever show.

Tomorrow will be an interesting day:
Exam
Lunch with Benoit to talk about the exam
Study for the CCM exam
Go out to dinner with the boys in order to forget exams exist

Found this article in a swe paper
http://www.aftonbladet.se/wendela/article6988067.ab
It's about how more and more schools in the US forbid any type of touching between students with hands... including hugs and high fives...
For those of you who don't speak swedish, use google translate.

Good night...

puss

A busy student

It's been a while since I pretended to be a serious student.
Today I feel increadibly proud of myself, I even went to Spanish class!
Blew her mind with my amazing knowledge in this old latin language, it was breath taking.
I bent the verb "Dormir" in present and in infinitiv, extremly advanced as you might tell.

Before the class started the guy, with a name I can never remember, started talking to Eray and me, he's really nice.
All of a sudden he looks at me weirdly and says: Your face, it's different.(Or something like that) referring to the red nose.
I didn't appreciate it. Eray laughed.
Eray laughed again when going through the security check him and Alper saw my student ID picture on the screen, it is not pretty.
Firat told me the ESN people thought I would be a huge, bald lesibian when they first saw the picture.

I am not.

I could be, but I'm not.

I think all those who have seen my previous attempts at posing for a student ID shouln't be surprised about this.

After spanish I went to the library. I finished with whatever I had left of innovation and decided to move on to Macro (the weekly quiz).

The week before the spring break the teacher said the next chapter we would do was chp 15. But as a "homework" we had some parts of chp 11.
So having started with 5 pages of the 11th chap I went on to thoroughly study the 15th, only to be informed when arriving to class that the quiz was on chp 12.
My bad.

Next time I'll pay more attention.

After class I headed back to the city accompanied by Benoit.
It was interesting.
We had dinner and I got a lot of information about things/people and situations.

He also admited to reading this blog, but only when the posts aren't too long.
So I will try to keep it short.

I will end this one with a quote.

"Fresh as an ocean breeze, unforgettable as an old friend"
- Zipper file case
(this is actually the "slogan" of a zipper case, saw it today in class. I have to say that they opened my eyes when it comes to zipper cases).

Will write more later... only to make sure Benoit reads these I decided to write two shorter ones.

Puss

Red

Since the weather was so good today Benoit and I had lunch out in the open, the lawn infront of the cafeteria.
We had a Kumpir (the Turkish version of baked potato) each while enjoying the sun.

Benoit left me after a while to go pay for a trip and to go work out.
He said he would be back.
I didn't see him again.
Swedish as I am I took the oportunity of being in the sun and stayed there for 2½h.
This was NOT a good idea.
I am now very red (hence the title of this post)

While sitting there I saw a Turkish hippie and a girl with orange hair, I'm not a fan of orange, especially not as a hair color!

The girl had a BMI slightly higher than mine (maybe +20) and she had a very deep voice. I have made the observation that women with a slightly higher BMI than I (See above) tend to have this.
So while (supposly) reading about disruptive innovations and how to manage them I let my mind "fly away" for a while.

How come these women have deeper voices? If it is related to their body mass, would it (the voice) become higher as the extra weight is lost???
I wouldn't mind getting a deeper voice, maybe not on behalf of my BMI thou!

Today I also realized that it is possible for a person to be completely cut off the world.
Someone today asked us (some people in class) why their friend had called yesterday telling them that it wasn't possible to fly back to Europe from Istanbul? Did we know what was up with that?

Hmhm, to start with I thought it was a joke. We quickly realized that no. Some people just don't read the news.

Now, this week I have 3 exmas (+1 since I missed Micro last week).
Innovation management - wednesday (we can bring the book and any notes we wish)
Cross-cultural management - thursday (a multiple choice exam)
Micro - oh well... no comment.

Anywho, am actually studying and have finished the 39 articles for wednesday. Now I'm just stealing Benoit's idea of making a list of key words so that I can easly find the article needed during the exam.
I shall continue with that.

Btw, just got back from dinner; A Bagel. It was amazing. We went to Tribecca.

Have an awesome night...

Tomorrow it's raining, I hope. My body is on fire.

Puss

A lake n a bit of BBQd meat

Today it's sunday. I'm not a huge fan of sundays. They're fun, but you always have in mind that tomorrow monday comes, I am sure a lot of people would agree with me on this.

The weather here in Ankara was amazing this weekend. Sunny, around 25 (if not more, in the sun)and not too windy, not even up on our balcony.

I wanted to enjoy this amazing weather, but my cough wanted otherwise, it kept me up all night, and when I finally managed to fall asleep it decided to wake me up at 6 am (wtf is up with that, who wakes up at 6 am on a sunday?). Well, because of this throat related problem I wasn't able to get out of bed until 12.30.

I slowly moved myself out on the balcony, bikini on, and assumed that, since it's god's day n all, we would take it easy n I could get some more color (read sun burn).

Of course my dad had big things in mind for this lovely day, none of which included anything I wanted to do (be in the sun).


So we went to McDonalds, left before even gettin into the place since wallets were forgotten.
So we went to Burger King instead. (I like Burger King!)
Two Whopper Jrs later and off we were.
Where to!? How would I know!?
I thought that my dad had heard my prayers about seeing a bit more of the beautiful country Turkey (not that I know if it's beautiful or not since I haven't seen shit).
I belived this until he told me:

"This place is called ***, this is where all the furniture stores are."(Kim-Erik, 2010).
Do I care!?
Not really... BUT I had no option.

Apperantly we were hunting for the "perfect bbq table" (Kim-Erik, 2010).

Turks don't use bbq tables, hence there are none for sale.
We bought another table, or actually, it was 3 tables; Tripp, trapp, trull...

On our way back home I tried to give him some hints about my wishes of seeing the sea (go to the beach).
He took me to a lake 15min out of Ankara, Gölbaşı. There's a picture underneath (copyright of some stranger)
It was cute, a lot of people enjoying the sun while bbq'ing.
We sat down on a bench, watched the people in the rowing boats for about 5 min... some of us thought the sun was to warm.

We went home.

Back home I tried to continue gettin through the last Innovation management articles, I read 2½... the ½ meaning skimming through boring parts of one before telling myself I deserved a break.

During my break meat was prepared for the bbq, I couldn't just let my dad do everything by himself! So I set my own "issues" aside and helped him prepare; I set the table and opened the wine, I also took the pictures you can see.

To food was good, the wine was good and the weather was awesome. Still sunny, no wind. We sat there and watched the sunset.

Now I'm back in my room. Finally unpacked the bags from the visit to Swe and also did some laundry.

A highly productive day.

Enough about me.

I assume you all heard about the ash-cloud that covers most parts of Europe at the moment.

Finally today airports in northern Sweden could open, but according to some sources, another cloud will head over on Monday/Tuesday and they will have to close everything again.

I am very lucky that I came back last weekend (Yes, a bit is still about me, this is my blog after all).
Too bad Bettina wants to come back to Turkey, but all these ashes makes it quite difficult.

Will read up on this a bit more. I find it quite interesting. Mostly how the airlines will make it through or how passengers will get refunded, if they will at all.
About airlines, I read somewhere SAS (Scandinavian airlines) will fire around 2000 employees as a reaction to this.
I don't really understand. As I said, I wanna read up on this a bit.

Oh, n also. My dad said that Bulgaria closed their airports today.
Does that mean the ashes are coming this way?
Would that imply that, even thou airline trafficking would be safe in the northern parts of Europe by the end of the week, that the southern parts would have to close!?

Why I even care about this is because Bettina is supposed to come back soon.

To b read about.

Puss

Saturday

Today it's saturday, today I didn't have to blow my nose as much!
My nose is very happy... soar, but happy I'm not bothering it as much.

Haven't done much since I wrote last. Went out for dinner with Benoit, it was really nice, he updated me on his "dangerous" trip to Syria... I told him about my adventures in Swe.

Yesterday my dad and I went to November for dinner, my dad hoped there would b live music. The guy told us it would start at 11.30pm, my dad said nonsense. The guys was right. We went home before the music started.

Today was a sunny day. I studied in the sun the entire day. I now have a tan (read sunburn).
I only have 4 out of 39 articles left to read for the innovation management exam on wednesday... I could b prepared... but i wont!
I also wrote one of the assignments for the individual project in CCM...

I had my phone hidden today (Sorry Benoit, saw you called)... I wanted to concentrate.

I also went grocery shopping, according to some it wasn't grocery shopping, but let's call it that. Again, I love going to the supermarket. It's fun.
Then we went for lunch at Paper Moon, I love that place!

When we came back home we built the table n chairs we bought for the balcony... now I have a table to study by outside!!

That's enough, I will now continue the very interesting conversation I'm having about health care systems! haha...

PUSS

Paper consumption

The houshold paper consumption just went up with more than the double.
Need to blow my nose every five minutes.
Not very flattering for my nose, it turns red and the skin becomes irritated.

I have no plan for today.

I should start with the Innovation homework. Just need to gather some energy first.

Yesterday on the bus or maybe in the cafe in school, Firat told me about Kaş, seems like an amazing place.

Wikipedia it!!!!

Anywho. As you might know I'm gettin my phone sent from Swe.
This seems to be harder than I could even imagining.

People not answering calls, then the other doesn't seem to answer anything.

God... who knows when I'm getting it.
Thankfully it taught me a lesson. I will share it some other time out of respect.

Very annoying. And the anger is building up more and more. Not for that but for the way it is currently being handled by a person, and how that person deals with communication right now.

oh well... I will, as always inform the person about what I feel

Puss

Sjukintyg

So on my way to Bilkent today Firat was on the bus and he told me that being sick is a valid excuse to miss an exam at Bilkent.

AMAZING!!!

So off we went to the Bilkent health center where they did a quick check up (fever, ears, throat, lungs, you name it). They gave me a 2 day pass to miss classes! YAY! I do not have to feel bad about staying home because of being sick!!!

Anywho.

If you read what I wrote earlier today... I can assure you that the soup was good, the yoghurt either survived the 2 weeks in the fridge OR she actually went out the get some. Because, she also brought me pills (which were amazingly effective) and just before leaving she brought me some strawberries (the maid that is). I officially love her, no more hard feelings for stealing (yet giving back) my cardigans!

Another really interesting happening of the day was that my nail broke. Or it acutally broke sometime during or just before my leaving Swe saturday, but I tried to fix it by putting on layers and layers of nailpolish.

It didn't work...

So now one of my nails is extremly if not dangerously short... Firat thought that maybe I should all make them the same size... Fuck that I say... It's one against 9... I suck at math yet I know those are not good odds!!!

Otherwise I had a very nice and pleasant night. Some wine and good company.
Don't really know what to say about it, or how to "feel"... hmhm... I'm happy... I suppose. Just another of those waaayyy to complicated situations I tend to find.

Well, now I'm gonna continue where I left off before my visit arrived...

Mad Men...

Puss and Bonne Nuit!

At home...

Today I'm home again.
Too sick to go to class this morning.
I'm here in bed with a roll of paper, trying to breath through my mouth while drying the tears from my eyes (because of the fever).
I'm studying today.

Got some help with a problem yesterday, so now I understand one of the practice questions at least.

The maid is here. She came an hour late. Or maybe she didn't. I heard her come in at 10.45 but when I went up to get something from the small living room she called me (by my second name) and told me she'd made me soup and that there was pills for me.
Did she go get ingrediences and pills this morning?
I kinda hope so, cus she said the soup had yoghurt. And the yoghurt we had in the fridge was about 2 weeks old...

We'll see, either I will feel better in 2h or worse.

Have a nice day

puss

I'm gonna study...

...I'm just gonna update you on some happenings first.
Nothing special has happened, just a few things flying around in my head.

First of all, to the joy of Cassia and Dan;
I did my nails last night!

For about 10 days, if not more, I walked around with 5 red nails and 5 "naked" nails, to Cassias horror and Dans delight.

Why Dan was enjoying this so much was because on Sunday my dad and I had to go to a "welcome lunch" for the Brazilian engineer (they were supposed to be two but one discovered he'd forgotten his passport at the airport in Sao Paolo).

It was my dad, Jeff (the turkish CEO) his brazilian wife, Dan, the brazilian and I.

My dad and I got there 10 min early, Nordic as we are.
Then Jeff and Cynita showed up, on time.
Dan came late, as always. Starting to believe his watches are not set to the right time.
And well the brazilian never showed up.
My dad had offered (on request of Jeff) to pick him up at the hotel. But he never answered.
We waited about an hour before starting to call. No answer.
After about 1 and a half he called saying he'd tried to get to the restaurant (Pike or smth) but had gotten lost, so he'd gone back to the hotel.
My dad, saviour of the day, left to pick hime up, while I begged him (in swedish not to leave me there by myself).
While he was gone, Dan must have noticed my nails and sat there with a smile on his face, looking down at my nails, that I tried to hide!
Thank god he didn't mention it there, but in an e-mail later that night. Ass! haha...
Another weird thing was the brazilian who didn't seem ashamed to stare at me the whole lunch, which of course both my dad and Dan noticed and teased me about.

Anywho, yesterday on my way back from Bilkent, all of a sudden I got crazy scared that maybe I got a brain tumor.
And no, this is no joke, I do realize how serious that is.
This of course is because of my hospital adventure back in Swe last week, and because of the fact that since then I've had a weird headace.
I usually don't any. Except for the migranes from time to time.
I managed to calm my self down by telling myself they would have noticed it on the X-rays.

I really wish I could b outside studying right now. But because of the fever I get too cold. Plus me ears hurt, and I don't feel it would be the best idea to sit out on a windy balcony on the 10th floor.
Also I'm having problems concentrating. I just wanna sleep. My eyes are burning, my back hurts because of the "fever pains" and my head is pretty messed up.

Wow, this became longer than I thought.

Hmhm... will maybe save the rest for later...

Toodles..

puss

Sjukling

Today I'm at home sick.
Got a soar ass throat and the fever didn't get better.

E-mailed my macro teacher about the presentation, she said it was ok.

So now I started studying for the micro midterm. Crazy shit. The thing is that i recognize everything. But since they insist on not using number (each number seem to have 3 symbols) I get lost.

Started watching The bounty hunter last night. Felt too sick to concentrate thou, so fell asleep to family guy instead.

My beloved phone has now been located. I forgot it on Tino's kitchen table. I am hoping to get it sent to me on wednesday!

Back to studying now...

Have a nice day... if it wouldn't be for my fever I would be outside in the sun here...

PUSS

Long time no see...

It's been quite a while, j'avoue, but I've been a bit busy.

Honestly, and without intentionally insulting anyone, this was the crappiest vacation I've had.
Not a single day of rest, of doing something for myself, or something that I wanted to do.
Now don't get me wrong, I loved seeing everyone I actually managed to meet up with, BUT, considering my schedule here in Turkey I would really have needed a couple of days just doing nothing.
Without the constant stress of knowing that I actually was supposed to meet up with X then Y, and at the same time do the paper work I had to do... and also maybe try to study for the midterms and project that are due in a week-ish.

Anyways.

My trip started out with meeting up with Cassia in the library.
It was awesome seeing her, and within a couple of minutes it was as if thou we'd never left.
The day went on and we talked, I went to Harry's to say "coucou" since Hemmakväll was closed and I couldn't get my hourly dose of coke...(the drink)

Next day was spent with Dia and later Tino. Fun as always. Vodka-coke in a MacDonalds cup should say it all.

BTW, why go to Centrum by yourself!? There aren't many reasons are there, especially not for guy on a friday... Vraiment pathetique... We danced salsa and ignored all the 16 year olds who were being stalked by the very pathetic older guys, only looking to get laid.

Saturday I went "home" aka Västerås.
I love my mamma. I ate mashed potatos and meat... Lapskojs. Amazingly divine!! Can still feel the taste in my mouth!!

Sunday was spent in Virsbo at my cousins' it was very nice. They still had more snow than I've ever seen... pretty cool.

Days in Västerås passed quickly, I was constantly doing something. Fixing the computer, seeing the sister, fixing her stuff...

So wednesday came fast. Back to JKPG.
Didn't do much. Hung out with Tino and Cassia.

The next day we all prepared for Caj; going to systemet.
But before that I had some paper work to do.
By this time I was extremly stress.
Which of course ended up with me getting a migrain.
Thou the migrain was so bad I had to go to the hospital in the middle of Caj cus of the pain. Stayed the night, got myself some morphine, an IV and they also wanted to see inside my head = I was shipped to radiology.

Came out normal... I know, can you believe it.
So they wanted to test my bonemarrow, I said no.

Came home and all of a sudden it was my last day. God, 10 days passes fast huh!

At this point I'd met up with Cassia, Nastia, Dia, Yulia, Tino and many more.

On to the last night. Calm pre-party talk at Tino's, then off to Lina's B-day.

And well that's my trip, the night passed by quickly and the next morning at 9 I left "the windy city!

I have some remarks;

Be greatful for what you have, stop always wanting more.
If someone makes some kinda effort to make your life better, say thank you. Don't demand miracles!

I realized my friends are amazing.
Seeing how other people get treated by theirs made me so very happy I have mine.
I mean, how can you not celebrate your friends b-day!?
How can you not say bye before leaving the same restaurant when it's the persons birthday. How can you under any pretext say that you don't wanna do something at night when it's that persons special day.
Na... those are selfish people.
At least my wonderful friends and I welcomed the person to our little party...
thou back to the first point: be greatful. After someone stands up for you, making sure there was some special features of you birthday, you don't act like that... ridiculous.

AHHHH, mon coeur est moins lourd!!!

Today I found out I have a midterm on wednesday; Micro... not good! Gotta study tomorrow after my Macro presentation. Was studying Innvation today in school when I fell asleep in the hall way on a chair... a 1h nap... in the middle of the school. Not bad.

There's more to the trip, but right now I've got a bit of a fever and am so tired I don't have the energy.

BTW, if you have a look just below this you will see some reaction boxes. The blog thought I should have one so now I do... feel free to check whatever... thou be nice!

PUSS