DAY ONE:
Photo: Mary Hunter
I am now
in Istanbul. I arrived yesterday night. We had döner kebab for dinner then
watched mission impossible 3 in Turkish. After that we went to bed.
DAY TWO:
I wake up
in the morning to find that everybody else is asleep. I instantly turn on my
ipad and everybody wakes up at once. I have no idea why; I had turned the sound
off and gone under a sheet. It must have been a coincidence. Last night Seamus
learned that Netflix had not reached Turkey so I want to check amazon prime
instant video, and of course it hasn't. That pretty much means no TV shows or
movies that Seamus or me will understand at all for four months. After four
hours we make our way out of a hotel that gives each room four beds squished
together and only one drinking glass. We take the Turkish metro to the blue
mosque and from there we walk around the city trying to make our way to the
waterfront. When we get there it turns out there is a beach made of boulders.
Seamus and me walk along the boulders until we get to the end of the (beach).
Photo: Mary Hunter
At this point we are tired, thirsty, and hungry. We find our way to a stand
with water and from there to dinner. We had döner again but this time not on
a kebab. We go back to the house to find out that we will have dinner again
with a big group of my dad's collage students. After that we come back to the
hotel and I start writing about my day,
In my
writing I say "DAY ONE..."
DAY
THREE:
Today I
woke up or was woken up to find the rest of the family rushing. The morning was
kind of complicated. Basically I am tired and wont get out of bed and Seamus is
playing with his Legos. Everybody rushes around to get what they need for the
rest of the day. At this point everybody is ready but me, who is lying in bed.
I finally get out of bed and get ready for the day. Our next stop is downstairs
at the breakfast room. I have coco puffs, watermelon, and an egg. We head
outside to the street car station and take it to a "tourist
destination" with a lot of things about fourteen hundred years old, for
example the mosque called Hagia Sophia which we just happened to be taking a
tour of, which by the way was completely boring for kids, sure I got a great
photo out of one of it's windows, but other than that it was not fun.
Photo: Booker McCann
By the
time we got out of there we were completely tired and hungry. We had lunch at a
place with really good chicken kebab. After lunch me my Mom and Seamus decided
that we would split off from the rest of the group because they were touring
another mosque, in the end they actually didn't but we broke off anyway. We
then went up a little alleyway, which was kinda cool.
Photo: Mary Hunter .
We made our way from the
gardens to the waterfront where we were yesterday. It was nice, the waves were
bigger so we could actually put our hands into the water.
Photo: Booker McCann
For some reason the water gave us enough energy to get back to the hotel. We had dinner at a place that sells
simit and other stuff but its known for its simit which is basically a Turkish
bagel with sesame seeds on it. We came home and did our school work after that.
And that was how our third day in Turkey went.
