The Great Wall...

And, today it truly proved to be great... Today we went with our tutor to visit the Emniyet for a courtesy visit (the place where we will get our residence permits very shortly) and then we took her to the one and only Chinese restaurant here in our fair city! It's near the base. She had never eaten Chinese food and we were so pleased to show her another culture that we love! Not only did she like it, but we approved of it! The food was good, the prices were reasonable, and it was the fanciest place I've eaten since I've been here! It was certainly a unique experience though. We had Chinese food cooked most likely by Turks in Turkey who took our order in English. We were trying to order in Turkish at one point and he just looked at us and in perfect English said, 'I got it.' And he did. But we were so excited! The food was great and it was definitely a treat. I don't know who had more trouble with their chopsticks, though, me or T...

This has been a busy week. We're starting to get things ready for the apartment...so I've been to the notary once already this week and will go again tomorrow and take care of a few last minute details. The first time I went this week, I actually went without a translator! Don't be too impressed though, I had to use half my cell phone minutes to call a friend to let me know what was going on! One day. But the apartment is really starting to shape up, any day now hopefully we'll have power. Moving Day is set for middle of April.

Saturday I'm having lunch with a friend who doesn't really speak much English and I'm actually looking forward to that! I'm still wondering when I'll totally understand this language, but every day gets better. I keep telling myself that He knew just how quickly or slowly I would learn and how much language I would know at each point on this journey and He still saw fit to set my life down here, so I know He's got a purpose!