I’ve been babysitting every night for the past week so am pretty tired. There is no internet today in Torba due to the wind (apparently) but I figure I should take advantage of some down time to write an update. I’ve just been for a swim at the beach followed by a glass of wine, calamari, cherries and Turkish coffee. Yum! Pretty standard these days though!
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On my Mondays off Sarah and I have been hiring a car and driving round the Bodrum Peninsular. Turkey is very pretty, even with all the white concrete box developments popping up everywhere. I’m hoping to go up to Ephesus next week
I spend most days in the swimming pool with the kids, or under the big arches alongside the pool where we do art – painting, drawing, hand prints etc. It’s getting much busier and Anna is back to do art with the kids so we can split the kids by age and/or activity.
I’m slowly learning a few Turkish words and phrases but man it is a HARD language to learn. The sentence structure is difficult and the pronunciation is insane. A lot of the Turks I’ve met speak a little English but because they have a lot of words that mean many different things their translation can be pretty amusing. Also the insistence that I bring my ‘photo machine’ to take ‘model pictures’ of everyone. (Massive posers!)
Haha, I’ve got a movie on in the background and I’ve just noticed that they always blur out the cigarettes, or put a little kind of electronic sticker (which just seems to highlight that the person is smoking.)
Love you all. Send me your addresses if you want a postcard – also I miss hearing from you so email me pleeeeease!
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