Messin' with Texas

Lately I’ve been having dinner parties at my apartment about every other week. I haven’t felt much like going to Houston and so when I have time on weekends I’ve taken to cooking things, and hosting people. At home growing up in New York, my parents hosted people often, and my friends came over often; [...]

over the past few months I’ve been making an effort to get a diplomacy group started in Houston. I had some help from the players that were already here and I managed to bring in some new players on my own. We have played twice now and are looking to get a third game sometime [...]

The topic my parents, or at least my mother always wants to know about. And for that matter, a good part of my family. Because my family frequents my webpage I have to be somewhat selective about what I write here. For that matter, the lack of annomynity on my blog (poor choose of domain [...]

Just some pictures from the weekend. That’s Doruk, Erman and myself. Because there are so many students in Istanbul, there is quite a good night life to be found. Istanbul is a city that never sleeps. These pictures were taken at ‘cafe pi’ in Taksim. They have a huge variety of drinks on the menu, [...]

Over the weekend I stayed at a friend’s house (I will avoid using names because the issue may be sensitive) that I do not normally stay at. Realizing I had not asked my friend what his parents do, I asked. They are both professors at two of Turkey’s most prestigious universities. I was excited.
The town [...]

Two weeks ago a friend from high school, Jessica, came to visit me. She, like me, is an expatriate. She currently lives in Cadiz, Spain where she works as an English teacher. She came to visit Istanbul for one week. Below is an excerpt from her blog entry or you can click here to read [...]

Current Mood: HappyWell a lot has happened since I last wrote a real post way back on… December 12th! It was a real pain in the butt trying to get my domains transfered and set up my new host for my website, but it’s all finally done thanks to the help of Ant and Ali [...]

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 [...]

When I first came to Istanbul, I brought only clothes. My first trip home for my brother’s graduation last May, I left Turkey with empty bags, and returned with mostly board games. You see, one of the many things that Izzy and I have in common is a passion for board gaming. We talked about [...]

Leyla showed up by surprise last week and we all went out and had a great time this past weekend. I’ll just give you some pictures because as usual the weekend was pretty intense, and I am still tired from it.

Sisters: Leyla and Berna

From the Right: Erman, Kocas (AKA Patrick), Leyla, Kutsal (one of the [...]