Week One: June 18-25
Hello All! For those who haven't heard, I will be in Ankara, Turkiye (formerly Turkey) for the next 8 weeks. I will be studying with a US Department of State program, the Critical Languages Scholarship. The program entails both intense language study at Ankara University as well as other cultural programming. I hope to write up a weekly set of highlights and journal entries and post them here for those who are interested! My blog posts may have a lack of pictures, but I will try my best to include them. The program has given us "burner" phones to use rather than use our own. The new phone takes pretty awful pictures. Hopefully more to come later! I will try to update as best I can, but since I had a bit more time today, I will frontload with a longer and larger post. Highlight 1: The hotel! The accommodations for us on this trip are disconcertingly nice. The program has decided to put us up in a ritzy five-star hotel about a 5 minute walk from the university. In...