Life's a short trip...

Between Konya and Spring Break, there were classes, midterms, an excursion to the Asian side and basic everyday life.  This where you two choices - start to settle into life in Istanbul or  decide you want to go home now. For me I settled into life. Don't get me wrong I love and miss miss miss my friends and family (the best birthday present would be to just have a night with my sisters), but I also have routine here that really works for me.

I have decided what foods I like, where I like to drink, what stand to buy my chips at. No longer are the crowded buses something that could get me completely lost and swallow me whole; now they are just crowded buses on the way to friend's apartment or night out. It's working out well. There are no real surprises anymore. I'm just comfortable here, which has led me to ponder some things. Should I be thinking about living abroad after school? What about grad school? and all those other questions that pop with those decisions.

I have come to the conclusion that I do want to have some time to explore things before I head to grad school. I'm pretty sure that I want to study international relations in some type of form. I do not know in what concentration yet. Perhaps I'll come back and work for NGO or go somewhere else. I don't know but I know none of these decisions need to be made now. I just know that this experience has given me more options and more confidence... both are good things.


I promise I'll post about my spring break in the next few days. I'm thinking one post on each country - Syria, Jordan, Egypt. For those of you that don't know, I and friends backpacked from Istanbul to Cairo and back in about 11 days. Originally, we had plans to go to Syria, Jordan, Israel and Cyprus, but two days into the trip we got word that boat ride from Israel to Cyprus would be too expensive so we went with our back up idea and loved it!!!! so check back soon