noteable cultural differences
- everyone listens to top 40 here. everyone. my least favourite song of all time maybe is Hangover by
Taio Cruz feat. Flo Rida. why anyone would ever make this song blows my mind, why it plays at least every five minutes in Turkey is beyond my wildest imagination
-no one wears their seatbelt. In newer models with seatbelt alarms, they just fasten the seatbelt and sit on top of it.
- if everyone in Canada could dance with 1/10th of the skilll of the turks, we would be much cooler.
-most people smoke here, and by smoke I mean like chimneys all day everyday inside outside. but if there are people smoking on television the cigarette is blurred out.
-on overnight buses, one can expect a heavily hair gelled men, dressed in black suit with orange polka dots and a bowtie to feed you snacks and tea
-no ever seems to be looking at their watch and it will likely take at least two hours to go 60-80km.
-directions are given in meters, for example someone will say *go left two hundred meters* and if you ask another person for the same directions they will say *go left one hundred meters*. I don't know how to calculate metres and I'm not sure they do either.
-tea pots can come in two story format, but steaped tea is poured first, usually half a cup and then boiling water is poured into it. Two sugar cubes are generally used.
-tea runners, run tea all over the place all the time.
These are the best cookies. They are biscuity chocolate vanilla outside with nutella-esque inside.
A package of about 10 goes for 1 turkish lira, which equates to about 60 cents Canadian, or about 6 cents per slice of heaven
Also, everyone has a cell phone. And is usually willing to lend it to you, will usually make the call for you, explain the situation in Turkish to the other person, and then tell you sit down and wait.
I have never been told to sit down so many times in my life.
more, later
Larissa
