The ducks are back!

  Today I get up around 2 pm and i was again late meeting Haico , which I know actually makes him hate me , slooowwlyy .. insiidee.. haha . Anyways, I went to Center200 to skate with Sojung , Yejin and Haico , also met my friends Victoria and Jessica , after skating like 3 hours , we left the rink and decided to go to the Chinese restaurant downtown , the weather was awesome ( like 4 C ) and we were really enjoying the sun actually ..  On the way to the chinese restaurant , we met Cem and Ching , went to the restaurant all together .. That was a fun day after all , while walking to Cem's house we stopped in the park , sit on the ground watch the lake and the ducks! I was actually super excited about ducks to come back since Shota and I are waiting for them to come back since December! Now he is still in Japan but I sent him a message saying that the ducks are back! I am happy that the weather is finally getting warmer , comparing to Turkey , 4 C is NOTHING , seriously but here when its warmer than 0 C degrees in day time , then it is warm - after having some fun in the park and taking some stupid pictures we went to Cem's house , skyped my mom all together and then go to to last Eagles hockey game of the year in Center200 again .. then the match became too boring for us that Haico and I went to Tims and I forgot my skates there while going to the movies!! If he did not remember that I definitly would just forget it there and wont remember about it at all .. maybe till I go back to Turkey? haha I dont know.. Then we went to the movies , he wanted to watch a movie called "Safe House" which he thought was a horror movie and I insisted on going to the movie called "21 Jump Street" at 10 pm , but he said it would be too late for him to go back home so we got our tickets to Safe house at 930 , after watching the first 10 minutes of the movie , I started to complain and just made him change the movie , since we are in Canada , they dont really care if we change movies and stuff , i do not know why they just do not notice :D Then we went to the movie "21 Jump Street" and that was quite awesome , I really liked the movie actually..

Sojung & Yejin

Melissa , Yejin , Sojung & Fernanda

Sojung & I 

Haico & I 

Video of the day : obsession is still present 

 - I love this song -

I decided to turn this into my diary!

Since this is my blog , I just decided to turn this blog into my diary from today, right now! Here I go ; what I did today ..

March 16th , 2012

  For last 1 week , I know that next year I will be back to Turkey , back to my routine and everything which gives me headache when I get up in the morning .. but somehow today was different , last night I talked to Paris and he recommended me to go to the Greek Restaurant in Sydney and try the food there , hoping there would be something Turkish . Around 3 pm , I met my friend Haico and went to the restaurant , seriously hoping there will be something good to eat ! With no racist feelings really!

 Then when we sat inside the woman asked me what we wanted and I told her that I am Turkish and I want something that they think close to our food in Turkey and unexpectedly,  she acted colder than she was when I first entered after finding out that I am Turkish! Anyways let's not turn this into a racist thing haha , after having our food there , we payed like 50$ at total which I did not really find worth eating that food ... Before I leave the woman asked me which city I am from , and I said Istanbul and she said ah Constantinapolis , and I said we say Istanbul for last 2.000 years , Constantinapolis is the old old name and she said Its not old , Its just Greek since it was once ours .. Which again made my racist feelings to come out , one more time.. I do not really think that I will ever visit that restaurant again , in my life..

 After our adventure in the restaurant , we went to the movies to see the movie 'A thousand words' which was pretty good and then I left Haico all alone , my host mother and grand-host-mother drove me to my Korean friend , Yejin's house to have some Korean food! She was kind of sad since the people she invited did not show up but then we invited some people over and had some kimchi , bulgogi and noodles! That was pretty fun to talk with Yejin , Sojung , Masataka and Yuuki , to see that two japanese guys are actually getting on really well with Korean girls haha! That is so fun to see my friends together and trying to speak in Turkish with me! To be honest I just find the Korean girls successful at pronouncing Turkish words since Japanese guys do not even have the letters l and r separetly .. anyways , after having some cake , my host mother again picked me up from Yejin's which i know was not a happy drive for her unfortunetly, picking her student from north Sydney and driving back to Sydney again..

  I could not skype my mother when I came home as it is already morning in Turkey , I talked to Shota for a bit which makes me happy , to hear from him finally since he went back to Japan . I am actually really excited to see him when he comes back next tuesday! Now I know how it is like to miss someone .. It is 2 am already! I better sleep !

Video of the day , the song that I am obsessed with recently!

That's all from me for today~

Alara Cetin

My best friend here is also Turkish

I met so many people since my arrival to Sydney but my best friend here is Cem and he is Turkish as well , it must be something to do with the language i guess .. But I can't help it , i would probably be fine without him in Canada too but he is the one who listened to my problems and tried to get me through all of them!~ Sometimes you just need to speak to someone that knows your language , your culture and knows what would actually happen to you in the present situation if you were Turkey and Cem is the only person that I really need to talk with sometimes and spend some time with.. In Turkish we say  " Turkun Turk'ten baska dostu yoktur" that means the Turk does not have any friends other than other Turks , it is not that I say that is totally true but sometimes we just say it to each other when we know or just feel it that we would not be able to talk about that thing with someone else..

Let's be honest - 1

     I have been living here since August , Its a country that i have never been to before , in a totally different culture and everything. Being an exchange student is the most amazing thing , meeting new people , making new friends , trying  new things ... Before i moved to Canada , only other country that i have been to , "without my family" was Germany for 2 weeks with a school trip , except that i have never been apart from my family that long.. and now I am living in Canada for over 7 months , I cannot believe how long it has been that i actually did not have dinner with my family , fight with my sister , walk my dog , be alone in my real room.. 
    I really miss the rain , since it did not really snow in my city Antalya and it does not really rain here in Sydney, i miss being dissapointed about having school since even if it rained so much that day the school is never off in Turkey and here even if you want to go to school , it snows and boom - schools are off .. I miss my mom forcing me to eat the stuff that i dont like and now here , there is nearly nothing similar to what we eat in Turkey .. I miss visiting my grandparents and listening to my grandfathers stories.. Thats also another thing that  exchange students are always scared of .. " what will I do if something happens to my relatives?" and that is really true , personally I , I seriously get scared that I will loose one of my grandparents or someone else in my family when I am away.. It's not that I do not really enjoy being an exchange student , but it is not as easy as most of the people think , being away from our families for a year , living another culture in another language...
    I remember my first host mother telling me that I might need more sleep since I translate everything in my head all day which means I think twice , which means i might get tired easily .. I did not really think the same at first but when I really think about it , that is true.. Also my English teacher in Turkey telling me that everything will be  easier after starting to dream in English ~ that is also true , somehow it kinda gave me more confidence to get up in the morning and start the new day when i dream in English .. But now I do not really care if i dreamed in Turkish or in English really. After like a month , you get used to everything anyways , like.. now I am thinking how will I really live without my friends in Turkey next year. I will be with my family , with my dog and everything but I will not have my friends that I have here , school will be harder than here and i will be back to the routine in Turkey , study and study for the university exams. Today's date is March 16th , we are at the middle of March break and yes , i finally have some time to think of what I am really doing for last 7 months , finally getting aware of what I am right now ..  

February 2012 - Project LEAD and the winter ball

Winterball is kind of a dance for Academy students in February that was fun with everyone to go eat afterwards in East Side Mario's .. 

And the project LEAD is a project prepared by high school students to help younger students that are addicted to drugs . What we did was just having a conference for 2 days but next month we are going to the closest school to the Academy and play games with 7th graders about drug awareness.. :)

That was actually more fun than i thought it would be , I met so many nice people :) :)

Every couple had their own sweets they names are written on :3 

It was only our sweets that had hearts on it , thanks to my friend Ashna! :D <3

February 2012 - International Skating Party

Skating party for new international students 

Sarah , Urara and I 

My host sister and I :)

February 2012 - Oliver's Birthday Party

When you are in a small city like Sydney , you don't really have so many places to go and do stuff , so for Oliver's Birthday , we first destroyed Meaghan's house and then went to Peking Chinese Restaurant :)

Charles , Meaghan , I , Oliver , Victoria , Julio, Catie , Bonnie and Jessica in Meaghan's house..

Birthday kid and I <3

At Chinese restaurant after other people join us too ,

 picture of everyone without the birthday guy haha :D