The MOVIE! :D

So, I am finally posting the MOVIE. I hope that you have learned enough through my blog to understand the context of this information. Some things will be repetitive (actually a lot of things), but I hope it will also make you laugh a little. I tried to throw in a little humor and cover some of the deeper issues at the same time.

This will be used in the presentations I plan to do in local high schools (let me know if you're interested, Virginia teachers!). Hopefully, it will expand the basic knowledge people have while giving a bit of personal insight into my experiences.

I really loved my semester and I can't wait to go back. I encourage everyone - student, teacher, young, old, boy, girl, rich, poor - to go out and visit a new country. It's a little daunting, but it's also amazing. And your life is so much richer afterwards!

I just want to add that for a few of the songs, I have no idea what the lyrics are. I really tried to find out the lyrics or (poorly) translate them by myself so that I would have some idea about what I was putting behind certain pictures. However, there were a few that I just couldn't find. If they end up being crude, rude, or in any way offensive - I'm sorry!

If you would like to know the name or singer/group for a certain song, just let me know!

Well, without further ado. For your enjoyment....

:D

Really back in America

I don't know how, but I've somehow managed to imagine that I could be here and there at the same time. That life in Turkey wasn't so far away and that jumping on a plane wasn't such an impossibility.

But, now, with just two weeks left of my undergraduate career, I have to face the facts. I still have a lot to do - finish the movie, make my presentations (any east coast teachers interested?!), and find a job. I've got a summer thing lined up, but after October, I'll need something "real."

I'd love to go back to Turkey. Everyone is asking when I will return, but it's undetermined. I have no timeline. Right now, I am focusing on the movie and finishing up the requirements for both my scholarship and my degree. Neither of which is easy. Sometime in May, I will finally be able to sit down and look at my life and say "This is what I'm going to do." Now, it's just "what will happen this week."

I should be stressed. I should be sleepless. In fact, I have never felt so relaxed.

What will come next? I don't know, but I am sure it will be interesting.