Oh, the Weather Outside is Frightful...

Welcome to my fair city on a not so beautiful day! This weekend the weather has just been bizarre! Yesterday the winds were howling, like I've never experienced in my life. If it hadn't been for all this food I've been eating here...I might have blown away. I kid you not. Massive winds.

Then today, we almost got washed away. Yes...all that white stuff on the ground is hail!!! Chris and I had both been downtown and were going to the V's for a group dinner so we braved the winds, rain, and hail together. I think Chris saw my un-lady-like side as I puddle hopped across our main thoroughfare...possibly drawing a few laughs in the process with my antics. The girls on our bus kept saying, 'it's snowing, it's snowing'!

So yesterday, to complete this crazy fun weekend...i was riding in a bus on the way to teach my English lesson and my prejudice about Turkish bus drivers was only confirmed. Yes, many of them are bad drivers. Especially, if they are drinking tea and smoking. Look out, you're gonna get there in a hurry. So our bus hit a car...while i was in the bus. (see above picture...only minutes before--I missed the photo-op--there was a huge crowd of Turkish people gathered around including the to be mentioned screaming red-faced Turk.) It was quite a unique experience. Everyone piled out of the bus and gathered around the scene of the crime and there was a very red-faced owner of the effected car yelling many Turkish vocabulary words that I have not learned yet...may never. (smile.) I kept thinking, should I stay and fill out a report or wait for the police...nah, this is Turkey. I'm not really sure if they even called the police...

But this weekend did bring good things with it, too. #1. Hopefully this coming week, my apartment will have power! #2...So much better, we've had visitors this past week from good 'ole MS and they visited Tarsus...which actually opened a door for me to share with a friend of mine and Mrs. V's, why Tarsus is so special to believers and who Paul is and how God changed his life and how He still works like that today. I'll take another weekend like that anytime, rain and all.