freestyle

more rain

mean muggin

woo! here is my first video blog entry, sorry it took so long.

clothes line

no, not one of these

but one of these

*and no, those are not my jorts, and I didnt make it black & white cause I'm emo...I found it on google*

I used one for the first time ever the past couple days. I say couple days because some things still arent dry. That is because the washing machine we have is broken...def had about 3 inches of standing water when it finished. I tried for 2 weeks to find a laundrymat, they just don't exist here. At least my clothes are nice and soft haha.

60% chance of rain tonight. Hopefully it doesnt though cause I still have two sweaters and jeans out there. That will really piss me off.

So I weighed myself yesterday at the gym, and I am tipping the scaled at a measly 69kg (152 lbs). The only good part about that is that I am the perfect being right now, 69 inches tall - 69 kg. All that means is that my boy nicky hayden is gonna straight dominate this year!

I wanna put my weight back on, so my goal is 73-75 kg (160-165 lbs) by may. Mmmmm...protein shakes. alright, its wayyy late and I gotta get up and go to church tomorrow! Well, kinda. I'm going to Hagia Sophia (google it) tomorrow to do some research Muslims and prayer habits. I'm basing my architecture project on it, I'm intruiged by their faith. see ya soon.

what up will! I updated the playlist for ya. Its a little slower this time, but you know the ladies love it when you put it on haha.

and leave some comments, cheese and rice. 

part bir

what up! sorry for no post yesterday. I got home really late and was too tired. 

enough of the excuses

so yesterday was pretty cool. we took a trip to Kolection (sp?) design studio. They make some amazing furniture, and they are also the people paying for my trip to Mardin. I am really excited out the project now, I'll give some details on that later.

afterwards, we went out to dinner with some turkish, german, french, finnish and american peeps. It was pretty cool. I had a legit turkish crepe. It was aiiiight, nothing special. When I was in London, there was this one street vendor that was selling waffles...I wanted one sooooo bad! Never got one. So when I heard they sell waffles from little street vendors here, I had to get one. So I did last night. *insert shrek donkey quote here*

the waffle was kinda weird. Well, I guess I made it so. I added milk chocolate, nuts, pineapple and whipped cream.....too bad the pineapple tasted like dead fish. Haha, kinda ruined the experience, but good nonetheless. Below is a pic from the area where I got the fish waffle

sorry for the crappy pic, iphone sucks at night

Today I went out to the gym! It feels soooo good to be back into it. Its a 45 minute trip from the crib to the gym, but its nice. I gotta run out now, but I will return later to tell you about my laundry excursion from today.

I finally got youtube going, and here are some vids from England.

I'm trying to communicate with the sheep, find secrets of stonehenge

commentary from the london airport to london

tired

i'm

tired

look

for

double

blog

tomorrow

sorry

ok i'm back up on my grind

you do you and I'm just gon do mine

you do you cause I'm just gon be fine

ok I gotcha out my mind

^ that part of kanye's "see you in my nightmares" has been on repeat in my head all day. Today was really good, I feel like I should be in Istanbul finally. I don't feel like a complete foreigner anymore. I found a GNC and got some workout stuff, and found the gym too. The GNC was easy peasy rice and cheesy, but the gym part...not so much. 

*Prepare for an amazing re-enactment*

In order to protect my anonymity, I casted Dora to play me. I mean, I was exploring today, so it fits.

and this is gonna be Adam

So the streets have been talkin, and I heard the ITU gym was somewhere off the metro. After the metro, we were told to take a bus to campus. Sounds easy enough right?

Me and Adam got all dolled up for the gym, and set off on what turned out to be a journey to the end of the line. We headed down to the metro and mumbled some turkish to the attendant, and he told us just to take the 25T bus from Taksim (right down the street) all the way to the ITU campus. So, we walked to Taksim and waited in line for bout 20 minutes to get a bus pass. Turns out you don't need a pass, just pay on the bus. Cool, well the line ride was fun. After wandering through the swarm of buses, we find 25T. We ride this thing, looking for something, but we don't know what. Over an hour later, we are 2 of the 3 people left on the bus. At this point we are in the middle of nowhere, Istanbul. The driver turns around and I guess he asked us in turkish where we are going, I try to tell him...but to no avail. Luckily, the other person on the bus spoke English and told us we missed the stop...bout 30 minutes ago hahahahaha. 

At this point, we are at the end of the line - with a driver that speaks another language - in a part of town I've never seen - at night - with no one else on the bus.... IT WAS AWESOME!! 

So we stay on and finally get off where we need to be. Walk over some interstate on this bridge, then wander around until we find some people. They tell us to get on this little transit, and fffffinally it takes us to the gym. Too bad it took so long to get there, the gym is now closed haha. We run into a guy named Ahasheen (spelling is probably way off), turns out he is a personal trainer in the gym. He is from Morocco and speaks English. Pretty much the nicest guy ever, well not as nice as Beeker...but close. He gives us the lowdown on everything and tells us how to get home. 

So now we know where to go, what to do. And I also found out where I can play some soccer! So it was a good day. It feels amazing to be back on a schedule, back into exercising. 

Tomorrow is my friday. No school for me on fridays at all! yeeeeeeeahhhhh boy. MotoGP testing starts in 2 hours and 30 minutes from the moment I typed that. But, by now it is 2 hours and 29 minutes. So life is good. take it easy! love peace and doo doo grease

urban morphology

is the name of the class I went to today. Not really sure what that means, but ok. Its a graduate level class at this university, but we are in it. We'll see how it is, but seems like a bore so far. Its ok though cause I walk through this courtyard everyday on the way to studio, and there are a bunch of KITTIES roaming around hehehehehe. Makes me happy. I miss the beastro. If you don't know, this is my slender cat, Beastie.....

as a kitten

two years of sleeping 20 hours a day + eating until you throw up =

haha its ok though, she is the best.

annnnyways. Still haven't found a laundrymat! I have two pairs of clean pants left, so I better hurry up. here is a picture of my school in case you wanted it

and this is for mi madre, a picture of my door haha

nothing interesting happened today, but who knows what will happen. If nothing else, I can go practice my karate on electronic displays. see ya

its a beautiful dayyyyyyyyyyy

I hope that U2 song is stuck in your head now. so yeah, today has been "magical" (as adam would say). I had good breakfast, school, bought stuff, broke stuff, went back to school. follow me, I'll take you on a dialectic journey....and yes I made that word up. 

so I had leftover cold pizza for breakfast and pinapple juice. What a combo, it was delicious. Then we hit up school for about 30 minutes, didnt really do anything. After that, we went to this mall a few stops down the metro. Inside they had the equivalent of a Publix or a Kroger in there. I finally got to pick up some things I haven't been able to find. see below for the mysterious products.

Then I started to roid rage on display's in electronic stores. I was walking around this really nice electronics store looking for another turkish adapter. I came upon this little display rack that looked like it would spin, much like the ones in America. Annnnd I was horribly mistaken. I tried to spin in it, but I ended up judo chopping it onto the floor. Sounded like I just shattered a giant mirror or something. Didn't help that everything fell directly onto the security desk and slammed into their computer hahahaha. I kept saying "sorry" and "i'll help" in turkish, but they were really cool and weren't mad at all. So that was my one stupid american move, no more allowed. Nothing broke, so its all gravy.

Went to my fav place to eat called Damak. They have the $1.25 chicken pitas. The chicken isnt seasoned much, hence the flood of emotion when I found the green tabasco. I've been there so many times, I just walk in and they make my pita without me saying anything haha. Love it.

and also the granola bars are my breakfast for the rest of the semester. If I am gonna eat breakfast, it has to be on the run. 

So school is da bomb diggity! My professors name is Abdullah Erencin. I call him Paula Abdul for short...jk. The project sounds amazing, the studio is amazing, and the girls are cute. Sounds like a winning combo for the man they call Chad Pryor. 

My schedule isnt completely set in stone, but I think it looks something like this.

Monday : 1:30-6

Tuesday : 9:30-2   

Wednesday : not sure yet

Thursday : 1:30-6

Friday : no school

aight, hopefully I can catch some of you on skype. I havent really talked to many of ya! love peace and peanut butter grease 

we have a winner

so the results are in...and for the most part, none of you can count. The first answer was from donna, and nobody else even came close! So aunt donna, this is for you! love ya, congrats! the correct answer was 48