Hannah & Si-Si & Sam & I went to support the Koç Rams Saturday at the Istanbul-wide Ice Hockey Championship game! WHICH WE WON 6-3! GO RAMS! At the game I learned that Koc means Ram in Turkish. Makes sense. I always thought our logo was a Conch shell because that's what it looks like and it kind of rhymes with Koç... turns out it is the horns of a ram, OH. (So we are the Ram Rams haha)
Koç Koç Koç!
Behind the rink hangs the flag of Turkey, a giant portrait of Ataturk, and the Istanbul logo.
After the game we went out to celebrate in Taksim with the rest of the CIEE crew. Went to a shots bar and then a dance club called BEAT where I met a Deaf Turkish person (I love deaf people and know the basics of ASL) but unfortunately we could not directly communicate because he only could sign Turkish Sign Language and I could only sign American Sign Language but luckily his friend knew TSL and spoke English so he was acting as the middle man for us for a while. Good times in downtown Istanbul despite the rain. The rain can't stop me! This force of nature [me] beats that force of nature [rain]. I split the cost of an umbrella that are sold every five feet on the main street for only 5TL each (what a deal, only cost me about $1.75) - it was a cheap umbrella but effective enough for a one time use. At the end of the night the rain had subsided and I left the umbrella at the club for some other poor soul to use at a later date.
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