...A beauty. The fan, that is. So, here in this fine city that I find myself living in right now, we're experiencing temperatures in the NINETIES already! I keep hearing the same thing over and over again, and quite frankly, it's making me afraid of summer! Everyone says that summer here is miserable! Or that no one stays around in summer because it's so hot, or that i won't even want to leave the house this summer because it will be so hot! That's right kids, worse than those Mississippi summers that I learned to thrive in! But, we bought two of these lovely fans and my oh my, how lovely the nights have been since. We don't have air-conditioning yet, so I'm already sporting the shorts in the house, which is fine until somebody rings the doorbell and i have to run to put some pants on and run to get the keys to run to unlock the door...hoping that they're still at the door! I'm trying to stay culturally appropriate, but this girl's gotta keep cool behind closed doors. Speaking of closed doors, or actually quite the opposite...
Today, i had the porch door open (I was hanging my laundry) and wouldn't you know we had a visitor. Little itty bitty pigeon just waltzed right into our living room. All of a sudden, I hear Melissa shout from inside, 'There's a bird in our apartment!' She just strutted around for a few minutes, then decided when I was done with the laundry that it was time for her to leave. Maybe she was offended that we didn't offer her tea. Not sure if she hadn't left of her own accord, quite how we would have handled removing the pigeon from our living room...let me know if you have any ideas for future instances.
So, we met actually a legit chairman this weekend--refer back to previous blog. I'm telling you, sometimes being a yabanci (ya-ban-jee)--a foreigner--draws more attention than I'd like. Katie and I had lunch with some good friends from the university. One of the girls is from a city out east and there's a foundation that has been started for people who go to Cukarova (the university in our city) from her city. The girls were having a meeting Saturday, so we got to join in and practice our Turkish! We had tea and plums and danced some traditional dances. Katie said i had some moves, but I'm not sure about that! We all linked pinky fingers and then did this dance resembling a country western line dance a bit...and the chairman of the foundation came to the meeting to meet us! Our friend said that she had never met him before! He only came to meet the foreigners! I'm beyond ready to blend a bit more! But he was very nice and we got to see some pictures and meet some folks from a different part of this country we're living in. It was a fun meeting and a fun day.
...A beauty. The fan, that is. So, here in this fine city that I find myself living in right now, we're experiencing temperatures in the NINETIES already! I keep hearing the same thing over and over again, and quite frankly, it's making me afraid of summer! Everyone says that summer here is miserable! Or that no one stays around in summer because it's so hot, or that i won't even want to leave the house this summer because it will be so hot! That's right kids, worse than those Mississippi summers that I learned to thrive in! But, we bought two of these lovely fans and my oh my, how lovely the nights have been since. We don't have air-conditioning yet, so I'm already sporting the shorts in the house, which is fine until somebody rings the doorbell and i have to run to put some pants on and run to get the keys to run to unlock the door...hoping that they're still at the door! I'm trying to stay culturally appropriate, but this girl's gotta keep cool behind closed doors. Speaking of closed doors, or actually quite the opposite... 
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