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Follow from previous blog!!!! Anyways so we got there around 7:30 and İ met my roommate. Her name is Laurie and she's from Boston!!! She's very nice and down-to-earth!! Out "neighbors" were out on their balcony and told us there was free breakfast so we went down after we got settled in a little bit. The girls who said it was free. Jaime and Min, both from California, were almost done and left when we were about half way done. We were then joined by 2 guys from California, Sam and Mike. They were both really nice and extremely funny!! As we were just finishing eating and drinking tea and talking, a man came over and said "will you pay now or later?" İt turns out the breakfast was free only the nights we stayed and since we didnt stay that night we had to pay 10 liras for the food!!!!!! After we paid and ate, Mike needed a swim suit so we walked into town and looked for a swim suit for him. İ seriously almost died laughing!!!! İ think İ might have even peed my pants a little but İ couldnt tell because İ was laughing so hard! İt goes like this, İ'm walking by Mike and Sam and theres all these guys driving around on mopeds. So İ said "Maybe if İ wink at one, they'll give me a ride!!" But since İ cant wink, Sam took over the job of winking!!! He even practiced on some guys sitting at a table and they were like "merhaba!!!" İ almost died!!! He was SOOOOOOOOO funny!!!!! So after we walked around until 9-ish we all went down to the sea and went swimming (that part wasnt so good either cuz it was realy salty and hurt my eyes and sinus's and left my skin really dry) and me and my room mate- Laurie from Boston- laid out and talked and tanned for about a half an hour and then i asked sam and another america, alex, if they wanted to go walk in town. we decided to rent mopeds... it was around noon so we had all afternoon to find somewhere if course we found somewhere right away and rented them out until 10 pm for 25 liras!!! thats really cheap (like 15-18 dollars)!!!!!! and there was so much to see! so we start driving out and right away i started to turn and the gas went faster (it was a turn gas) and i went straight into a bush!!! Well not straight into it, but it was REALLY embarrassing!!!! İ was fine and so was the moped but my pride hurt a little! Then we went to get gas for them and another corner and i skimmed along another bush. We decided to go back to the hotel and show them off and let me put on pants... when i came back out, sam and alex were gone and there was this REALLY cute guy from Finland (his name was Joonas- yo-nus) looking at my moped he asked if he could just drive it up the street and back so i let him and then he asked where he could rent one so i said "if you drive me i'll show you" turns out he was a good driver so then i told him "if you want, you can drive this one if i can ride with you" and that worked for both of us, mostly because i was too scared i'd crash again... so we had lunch and found the other people and 2 more girls-Min and Laurie (not my roommate but another America)-wanted to go and Mike rented one so we all drove aorund... We drove to this ancient theater...İt was really cool! We all went to the top and then me and Joonas went all the way to the bottom and put on a show for them!!!! Eventually Joonas and Sam sang "We all live in a yellow Submarine!" and Sam even did harmony. Once again İ couldn't stop laughing because they were both so comical!!! We went back into town and got food...and one by one, Joonas, Mike, Alex, and Sam all used to bathroom for 10 minutes each! They were all drinking pepto bismal out of their bottles and it was just funny to pick on them for it, although then they would pick on me for being a bad driver... but it was still fun! As we were walking back to the mopeds me and Sam started arguing about where happy cows came from...in the middle of it he started making fun of me for my accent so İ said "No, you Calfornians have WEİRD accents! For example, say 'Happy cows do not come from California'" everyone was listening to see if he would actually say it (Alex who was originally from Appleton was the only one on my side) and of course he did! Which made everyone mad and gave me something else to tease him about! Just goes to prove that no matter what country you're in, or waht starte you're from, girls dominate everything especially mind games :D After walking around town we decided to drive up the mountain to this ancient city. The road was super twisty and turned to gravel. We stopped and asked for directions and they told us to keep going straight but we approached a fork and went to the right and after a minute of driving, thought we'd go to the left instead which led us to a creepy woman who was yelling at us to g back and something about soldiers and just crazy things! But since the boys were driving, they decided to go on. Me and Joonas were leading and we went down a hill and İ turned around and saw Sam and Laurie fall off (they used the front brake going down) so we decided to go back to the people we asked directions from before and ask which way to go. As we were approaching them Sam slowed down going down another hill and they fell again! After that they were done adn went back to town and the people told us to go to the right so we went. İt was absoşuteşy GORGEOUS!!!!!!! Except this really big dump we passed and this creepy dungeon-type thing with bullets outside... We got to this house that let us park our bikes there and continue walking up the mountain. We reached the top, but found no city. There were some Englishmen walked down and they said that they took a fork on the hill to the right and walked for 20 minutes without seeing anything but a spectacular view. We just went straight and it was breath taking but it began getting dark while we were at the top but Joonas wanted to run and see if he could find anything on the path. He was gone for about 20 minutes and Alex walked down and got his moped because he was worried about him and drove odnw the path to find him. They both came back 10 minutes later and by the time we started driving back it was pretty dark. We went back, got dinner, and went to this beach and took pictures... after that we went back to the hotel to shower. Most everyone else was another beach getting drunk and we met them all in town later and went out dancing!!! it was THE tiniest club i've ever seen but it was fun... at about 2 me and Min went back and slept outside!!!! İt was BEAUTİFUL!!! the first stars İ've seen since İ've been here!!!!!! The next day we all went on a boat tour! We saw this really cool castle and we stopeed the boat three times to go swimming. İ was 3 floors and we all jumped off hte top into the sea! İ was really fun!!!! We also danced on the boat because at the port they sold belly dancing shimmy scarves for 5 liras!!!!! By the time we were back at port we were all tired out. We got back to the hotels around 5:30 and planned on going to eat after an hour. The poor restauraunt only had 2 cooks and all 80 of us went to one resaurant!!!! We were there for 3 hours! But we all ate plenty and all had Rakı!!!! İt actually isn't too bad. They put it in a double shot glass, give one shot of Rakı and the rest is water!!! İt tastes like water and then black licorice!!! Some people like Sam, were drinking it straight though and İ tried that and it was HORRİBLE!!!!! Despite all the talk İ didn't even get buzzed although most people were drunk from one! After that we all hung out in a room and had "dog killer" wine. At about 11 we walked into town to go dancing again. Sam had had not only 2 double shots of straight Rakı but also a nottle of Vodka so he was really drunk and he stopped and bought this postcard of famous statues here-they're very tiny wiht erections twice the size of their bodies!- and he walked around with it on his shirt then attatched to his zipper of his pants...we all teased him because it was "false advertising" haha...he lost it though at some point while we were walking. While walking around looking for a club better than the pervious, me and another Californian, Maggie, really had to go the bathroom. We stopped outside a bar with a band and they charged us to use their bathroom!!! Usually they just charge for toilet paper (İ now carry my own around) but this was .75 liras per person just for the bathroom!!! But we really had to go so we paid for it...After that we were sick of walking around so we went to the tiny club again, İ danced with my shimmy scarf and had a great time! Eventually we got kicked out (for closing) at 3 am! We walked back to the hotel and stayed out and talked and taught people how to eat sun-flower seeds, and then around 4 or 4:30 we finally went to bed...me and my roommate set the alarm wrong and it went off at 8:30 instead if 9:30 so we went down for breakfast...there were TONS of people sleeping outside! Most of them had been at the beach again drinking tequila so its easy to explain how they all had hangovers the next day...it was SOOOO funny to watch them wake up and walk into breakfast!!! the hotel people all thought we were crazy because most people slept outside!!! For that day we had a few options, the only thing was that we had to back at 7 to leave. Option 1, Go on a boat ride to the beach...2. Go scuba diving for 35 liras...3. A group was renting mopeds...4. just relax with all the hung over people...İt's not hard to see which one İ choose...staying back witht he hung over people sounded really fun!!!!! Just kidding...of course i went scuba diving!!! İt was the moped excursion people and 2 other guys. We had 3 extra hours before we left at 3 so we split up. Me, Sam, Joonas, Alex, and Laurie went to this beach restauraunt and the boys went swimming. Joonas found a pot in the water! İt was really cool! After that we ate lunch and headed back to the docks. We met the others and got onto the boat. İt was a 20 minutes boat ride there because it was so windy and hard to move ahead but it was like a roller coaster!!!! The waves were huge and we were all up pn the sun deck doing the Titanic pose :) İt was great!!! Once we got there we all had a briefing except joonas because he dives all the time... then we picked our order...it had to go boy-girl-boy ect. İ went second right after Sam. The other girls were too afraid to go!!!! lol... so they got me all suited up and 5 minutes after SAm left İ hopped in the water. İt was weird because the wet suits were only shorts so my legs were cold, but it was still amazing!!! İ couldn't breathe at first when we were just skimming hte surface. İ hated all the bubbles that came out when İ did so İ wouldn't breathe out that much...once we started going down and blowing our noses to relive the pressure, my breathing became normal and we swam on. İt was SOOOOO amazing!!!!!! We swam through tons of fish and even fed some of them by rubbing our hand on coral-like stuff... it was great!!! İt lasted about 20 minutes and during the swim we passed a bunch of other divers collected samples from the depths and İ also passed Sam so we waved and stuff, it was great!!!! After İ was done, İ got out and left on my wet suit because it was worm. Shortly after Joonas came back and asked if İ wanted to go snorkle. Of course İ did then he said, "İ'll teach you how to dive but you have to take off hte wet suit"...it seemed worth it too me and İ could dive all the way to the bottom!!!! Usually İ ran out of breath right away and forgot to blow my nose to get rid of the pressure, but otherwise it was really fun! After about 20 minutes, we both started getting numbd because the water was kinda cold so we got out. Unfortunately my towel was all the way up on the sun deck and İ had "glass cutters" so they made fun of me again...but what else is new right??? haha... On the boat ride back me and Joonas were doing this tribal dance thing that was only cool because you could barely stand because the boat was rocking so much!!! Then Joonas, me, laurie, and min all played leap frog. İt was so much fun! By the time we got back it was 6 so we quickly ate and made it back by 7. Of course we were running late so we had time to take a shower and stuff. Me and Joonas sat together on the bus which was great! He had this drum thing he was trying to play and he gave me his watch to hold onto while he tried to play it (later he forgot to get it back and he e-mailed my host mom and asked her to bring it to the school--oops!!!) and we talked for a while then decided to go sleep. He slept on the floor (most of the guys did) so İ had the seat to myself-which still wasnt very comfertable- and the first time we stopped, he forgot his shoes on hte bus and İ was standing outside so he wore my pink thongs inside to go to the bathroom. When he came out he said that all the guys in there avoided him...haha...so once we got back on the bus everyone was teaching bad turkish words and pick up lines. They taught one that was "give it to me" which isnt neccesarily bad and then Joonas was teaching it to me and a Turk in Finish. Turns out he taught us how to say "i love you, give it to me you f-ing homo!!!" since no one else knew what it meant they were tellling me to say it to peope. İ said it to Sparky first, his response was "The crayfish did it" and then İ said it to Sam who got really close to my face and said something in turkish. Joonas told me what it meant and we couldnt stop laughing because how well it fit together...hahaha... After that we were really overtired and there was this turk talking and tried to "plural" but instead said "purell" and joonas kept messing him up and after 30 minutes or so of laughing and trying to teach him it, neither could say it and we couldnt remember what we were talking about in the first place!!! it was so really funny but it was the kind of funny that you had to be there to understand!!!!! But at 5:30 we got back...İ'm not sure why it was so early but İ think it was because everyone was sleeping so we didnt stop as much... but it was great and İ hope to see them all again!!!!
Our view out the hotel window
Our hotel...by the way, did you know that they call cheap crappy hotels Hostels? Pretty creepy eh?

The boat ride on Saturday...This is about half the people
Dancing on the way back...thats me with the pink shimmy scarf on and red shorts :)
Me teaching Emile (a turk) to crump...oh and that guy sitting there is Emanule, the İtalian...
us doing a Turkish dance. Thats Joonas next to me...
Joonas learning how to play his drum from a turk, Emre

Boarding the boat was scary because you just crossed this shaky board...
breakfast
before going on the boat. thats Yasmine shes one of Anne's students
the turks just lounging
Before the boat again

Çok Güzel!!!! very beautiful!!!!
and again
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Waiting to go at the school
The turkish teacher was Anne's friend for the weekend!!!!

Hope you enjoyed hearing about my vacation and seeing the pictures!!!!

Scuba Diving :D

Love and miss you all!!!!

MUAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Emily

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