ESC is your time for self-development, for achieving personal goals. Okay then, I thought and decided to learn to play guitar. In the office there is one, what a chance! At about this time our friends launched a free music course. I took the guitar from the office and went there. Everything was very nice, … More How I learn to play guitar
My Ukrainian friend invited me to her wedding in Ankara. I was extremely excited about the invitation since Ive never attended weddings before. Not having any expectations, I arrived at the place of the big event. All of the guests were Turkish. But I knew the couples close friends. Feeling anxious in an unknown place … More Friend`s wedding
Fun fact: you want to go somewhere in the city, but you think it is so far, so you keep postponing a trip. But when you finally GO there, you are like, “what`s the hell, it wasn`t so far actually”. My example of this is Eymir Lake. So, I chose one cloudy day, took a … More Go to Eymir Lake
Do you know the feeling of home? You do, hopefully. This is how Ankara feels to me. As my second home. With streets in Kızılay, and Hamamönü, where I`ve been so many times already, with parks I passed dozens of times or was coming on purpose. More importantly, people, my friends. Expats, students, locals. And what is more, I found myself here. I … More Home, birthday, life moves on
I have a bit of a history with this language. At uni, I had a chance to study Turkish, but I chose German instead. When I traveled to Turkey, I learned basic phrases like “Merhaba”, “Ne kadar?” and so on. But I didn`t know even the numbers. Before coming back for the long term, I used a … More Why I don`t speak Turkish?
How right is it to live a life in a moment? Usually, people see it as something negative, because associated with being irresponsible or even egoistic. But what about leaving an image of harmful excessive search of joy and replacing it with a state of valuing everything good in life and fully enjoying it? I … More Appreciate present
I guess this month was a bit different for me, since I crossed my half-year mark living in Turkey I decided to visit my family and fly back home for Christmas. All I can say is check your plane tickets before. 5 times. No. 10 times especially if you change the date. I mixed up … More A bit of stress before the holidays
So far i experienced only two times when there was literally snow everywhere in Ankara. Not everyone enjoying this kind of state in the city, depending from many things like, age, and region. Especially part of Ankara Cevizlidere, where roads going up and down, up and down changing up to around 45 degrees. Whole families … More Winter in Ankara
It`s almost the end of December, winter has finally arrived in Ankara. It`s time to sum up the passing year. When I`m looking back on all these months, my heart is starting to beat faster from realizing how many things have happened. I finished working in a school and moved to Ankara. I experienced what … More
We found out, that there are many museums we didn`t visit yet, so one sunny day we entered the magnificent entrance of Ethnography Museum. Or wait…No? Because Ethnography and The State Art and Sculpture Museums are very close to each other, we accidentally went to Art, instead of Etnografya. And I was very happy about … More Art museum
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