Mosques with Blue Tiles that are NOT the Blue Mosque

So Friday the international students committee organized a Bosphorus boat cruise that was really just a party boat. It was a little cray, but also really fun--just floating on the Bosphorus on a Friday night? It doesn't get much better than that. Saturday I finally got to hang out with the other Yale students for the first time, which was great. We went to Sultanahmet (the old city) on the ferry--which was actually a little tricky, but we took the bus to Besiktas and then a ferry to Uskudar (on the Asian side) and THEN another ferry to Eminome.  Then we got very confused. We thought we were at the Blue Mosque (there were blue tiles inside) but, alas, we were absolutely not at the Blue Mosque. We were trying to meet a guy at the Blue Mosque though, and so that got very confusing. There were a lot of phone calls and "I'm at the obelisk!" and "What obelisk? There's no obelisk?" sorts of things going on (hint: the Blue Mosque has an obelisk. The New Mosque does not.) Then we went to Galata, which is sort of in the same area, and drank some beer and met this nice Kurdish man who offered us Dorito's. OH and the best part of the night--eating mussels from a stand! It looked pretty sketchy to me, but there are these stands everywhere with just giant tubs of mussels and lemons. They scoop them for you and put spices on them and you just eat it and then, when you have eaten all the mussels you can fit in your stomach (37, in our case) they count the shells and charge you (it's like 15 cents a mussel, which is crazy.) So we had an amazing dinner, although it was a standing-up-in-the-street dinner, for like zero dollars.
Today I stayed in and did some physics and drank some tea. Apparently the physics labs are crazy long--they meet twice a week and I have to do 2 of them because I'm taking 2 classes. I'm not sure how that's going to fly. I might go crazy from dropping so many golf balls and discovering their uniform acceleration (hint: it's 9.81 m/s2). I would really rather not take the lab. I can drop things by myself and have a lunch break, and I would much rather do it that way. But we'll see.