Being in Turkey has made me realize how much water I drink. I bought a 10-L thing of bottled water and it is GONE after 2 days. ten liters. that is insane. human biology is insane.
Last night we got beers (although where beer-drinking in public becomes a protest is unclear to me...sorry erdogan if i was accidentally protesting) and sat on the beautiful hill overlooking the bosphorus. it is a supermoon night, which means nothing to me except that the moon was huge and yellow and round and reflecting light off the bosphorus. the strait is surprisingly busy at night, with cargo ships and stuff.
Oh and I had my first classes yesterday! They were weird. I'm the only one who isn't a native speaker of Turkish (nor am I any kind of speaker of Turkish) and while the classes are in English, the teachers--especially this one physics professor--keep making jokes in Turkish and apparently they are hilarious because everyone else around me was cracking up but I have no idea what they mean so I'm just laughing along. I got my textbooks--they are so much cheaper here than in the US. A giant physics textbook was 75 TL when I bought it yesterday (which is less than 40 dollars). Remind me to start bluebooking now so i can buy my books in Turkey.
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