Messin’ with Texas

Since a new year is about to begin, I thought I would ask you the reader if there are any specific topics or questions you would like me to address. In the coming months, or if anyone would like to see specific things in and around Turkey.

It’s snowing right now in Istanbul!

Hello everyone,
My life has been getting busier and busier, and I have been getting more and more tired. With a week vacation in Morocco, followed by a visit from my brother and a friend from university, coming up, there is no break in sight. I therefore regret to inform you all that I am taking [...]

I am no stranger to doing my own laundry. Throughout university (in the US and in Switzerland) I had to do my own laundry. When I came to Turkey however, my house keeper was doing my laundry once a week. She kept doing things wrong like washing things I didn’t washed, or washing dry clean [...]

This past weekend we had a double party that we had been planning for over a week in advance! We celebrated Adnan’s birthday (his girl friend Amber organized it) and Selim being sent off to the military (I made sure this celebration happened). This entry is more or less a few pictures. The whole evening [...]

Last week I attended an exhibition on industrial technologies with my company. Alper and I went, and we were joined by Ahmet Aral, the owner of one our distributors and the manufacturer of our high-pressure products. This is the first of many fairs we are planning to attend over the next year, and the first [...]

In case you missed it, here is part one of this entry:

Our New Employee

Pasha is gone. They tied him up for a bit two weeks ago. As soon as he got off the chain, he dissappeared.
Ahmet is very bored at work.