An interesting story...
One that involves sloshing around in sopping sneakers from 10AM until 8PM. Somehow we all managed to keep our spirits up and still have a good time which shows the great energy of the awesome group of people I am studying with. [I was hoping that the other exchange students who I would meet in Istanbul would be ones to step out of the box and be both cool and quirky, turns out I was right.]
Friday was an organized CIEE neighborhood tour around Kadikoy which is one of the more historic towns on the Asian side of Istanbul. It was raining all day. But I didn't realize the weather forecast when I had gotten dressed in the morning so I had no raincoat and wore only flat cotton sneakers. Bad idea. (But a learning experience: ALWAYS prepare for rain.) Once I accepted the fact that my feet were going to be cold and wet for the rest of the day I could embrace it and focus on other things, like looking at all of the cool things in Asia! (even if they were hard to see through the rain and fog)... We even made up songs and dances about how miserable we all felt to help lighten the mood.
We went to an old train station, happened upon an exhibit of local art, ate dinner by the Bosphorus, walked through the fish market, checked out the famous Kadikoy bull statue, drank tea, and shopped around the streets. The prices were much more reasonable than in Taksim which is much more built up and where we spend most of our time. Since we were in Asia we had to use Asian style toilets, I'm starting to get the hang of it... unfortunately.
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My pruney toes straight out of my soggy sneakers after getting home from the long wet day. I needed to document this. |
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