We finally arrived to our hotel in Ottawa , this trip is probably the best trip that I have ever had so far! That would be even better if my camera didn't break and stop working at the first day since I got it especially for this trip , but .. what happens , happens :( I am staying in the same room with Urara , Sojung and another Japanese girl called Rika , she is pretty nice and cute , too. I am exhausted cause of walking around .. in 7 days my coordinator Kevin is becoming 50 but he can walk 4 hours non-stop. I just admire him a lot cause of that but anyways.. He is the one actually making the trip this much fun! I don't think that we would have this much fun if he wasn't here anyways... Ottawa is what we call 'city' , Sydney is more like a village comparing to here and also where I am from . I am just so happy to see some high buildings after 8 months!! After seeing the town , now I decided that I would LOVE to live in this city . After arriving to our hotel & going and having supper in an Italian Restaurant , Kevin wanted to walk around the town . We walked around the parliament buildings and on the main streets .. Friday we will be going to Hard Rock Cafe - Ottawa which is another exciting place to go here! Kevin also promised to take me to a Turkish restaurant here in Ottawa , I am just sooo pumped for that !! After having 3 days in Ottawa , we will head up to Montreal , this makes me even more hyper when I think of that! I hope that I will also see my Turkish friend there when I arrive to Montreal and at least to go to a restaurant there with her ~ tomorrow we will be going to a few museums.. and to NHL hockey game!!!!!! We will watch NHL Ottawa Senators vs Boston Bruins and then have supper in " the ledge " :)) I am just so excited for tomorrow :O
Too much excitement is not good but I can't really help it. I think I'd better sleep now to be able to get up at 7 tomorrow , leave the hotel at 8 and be out till 10:30!! Today was awesome so I hope the rest of the trip will also be so much fun :) I also met so many new people :)) So shortly , I am pretty happy & going to bed!
That's all from me for today ,
-alara
Today I was in the park with Shota , thinking that we can finally feed the poor ducks . We went to Needs to get them some crackers then head to the park . There was only a few seagulls around when we gave the first cracker , then suddenly they became like 30 ,flying around , screaming for food . Even if I throw all the crackers like 10 at a time , the poor ducks could not really eat any because of them . Now I know how scary it is actually to have a seagull near to you less than a meter! That's just so weird that they don't really get scared of you ... Anyways. I really missed hanging out with Shota , even if it is so hard to keep our relationship ...recently. I wish it was easy to have a relationship. We also saw the movie "Hunger Games" today , that was actually one of the best movies that I have seen this year , for sure. I really wish I read the books too , my host sister read all of them and she says that I should read it . Now that movie is my favorite , comparing to the other "famous series " like twilight , harry potter and others . So yeah , I am also one of the fans now.I don't have much to say about today .
Thats all for today I guess ,
-Alara
Today was 20 C! I am in Canada , yeah , and it is warmer than my country for today , something is weird .. maybe the global warming? I have no clue.. Obviously cause of the weather , everybody was out again with shorts , flip-flops and everything . My other Turkish friend Efe picked me , Cem and Jenny up and drove us to our friends place which is right beside the water . But of course the water wasn't warm enough to swim but we made fire and stuff which was nice . Also in science class we were in the lab again , I actually learned a lot today! Like , if you burn Magnesium you actually get heat (obviously) and light . I also tweeted that and a random guy tweeted me back saying that i should visit blah blah page if i wanted more information about Magnesium , yeah i think so , it is weird . I have beautiful pictures from the beach and lab but eh my memory card does not work. When the weather is warm , I think it makes people happy :) . Today Shota is also back to Canada so I am really happy ~ he messed up with his flight plan so he is staying in the hotel again and coming tomorrow , i have less than a day to see him! I will be rushing tomorrow to meet him but I also have a science and a math test , which wont be as fun - but I am fine with it :) I am really tired - and have to study some science . :(
In the science class , today we finally did something fun , went to the lab to explode some chemicals . Ashna and I wanted to take a picture with our super-awesome-big glasses . I really love Ashna - she is actually helping me way too much with so many things at school . The weather was even better than yesterday! They say that it will be warmer tomorrow ;) I just noticed that there is actually a subway , 20 min walking from my house . Shota is finally coming back tomorrow night ~ I am really looking forward to seeing him on friday after school - It is possible that i will fly over to Newwaterford. It has been 3 weeks that I did not see him and I already miss him a lot - I don't really know how will this thing work during summer. Today also my friend told me that I will be missing the spring fling in BEC , because I will be going to Montreal :( This actually disappointed me so much since I wont be here for Shota's birthday anways and now I can't go to his spring fling either.. :( Today Urara and I decided to make a real big birthday party for us in April in the park! All the international students and our friends will be invited since we wont be having any problem with fitting people to a place.. That will be awesome , I am excited even now! My host sister Courtney is going to the :Hunger Games: tomorrow night at 12 , she is seriously crazy about that movie - I think she and her friends got their tickets like months ago! I dont think that Id be crazy enough to want to go to a movie at 12 when I have school , my mom would not let me go anywayss... That is also crazy how my mother in Turkey actually ignores my Skype calls unless tv has commercials . This saturday , Cem and I will prepare a Turkish dinner for Kevin and Debbie - that will be super fun too! Tomorrow we have double math and have a test on friday.. also a science test and we have an assignment due monday :( but hopefully i will survive :)
Today is unexpectedly warm out! I can't believe how can it be this warm all of a sudden ! It was like 16 C out today at 7 pm , which made everyone in Sydney go for a walk.. I am just back from outside too . My friend Meaghan and I walked down to Kevin's house and picked up Myia for a walk after school , Kevin is just back from Mexico and he is getting cold :( hope he will be okey soon , I love seeing Kevin happy , he has the energy that makes you happy too . It has been awhile that I did not walk Myia cause of the weather, I am so happy that it is finally getting warmer in town . We went to the park , to the pond to feed the ducks , yeah we are not really supposed to do that but it is so much fun . It makes me happy to see all of them running at me even if i know that its for the food , not for me , I feel like "aaah they like me". We fed them with crackers cause we had no bread , they seem fine with it tho , so no problems.Now I am half asleep - really need to sleep longer .I made a sandwich for tomorrow , its been a long time that I actually did not make my lunch and keep eating fast food at school , I understand why obese people are a lot in this country . So , I have packed lunch for tomorrow with grapes haha I don't know why but having my lunch prepared makes me happy , no I am not that stupid , just so positive recently cause of weather!
Internet says that tomorrow will be warmer than today! But it also says that we will have snow storm this Sunday :( , I don't really want to see snow anymore,after 4 months of snow! So let's hope that the weather will be like this forever , at least till I go back to my country! As I skype my mom , I get the feeling that I should be ready for more trips after this exchange , I think she believes that I can handle more stuff now by myself . It is now sure that I am going to Netherlands this summer if nothing is wrong with my visa! I am actually excited about that too .. And the Montreal trip is coming up! That will be awesome to see Montreal , Ottawa and Quebec city with Kevin! Now I will shower and sleep , finally getting used to sleeping early!
YES , I could not sleep till 4 am yesterday and yes , it was not easy to get up and go to school... I really hate staying up late so much while breaks and then not be able to get up on time , but it happens. Around 3 am in Canada , it was 8 am in Turkey so I listened to the Turkish Radio on my ipod , saying that my city is now having "a bit cold weather" 20 C DEGREES and here we are happy that today was over 0 , thinking " yay its getting warmer!" and going to school with a t-shirt . But seriously the spring is actually coming! As i wrote yesterday , the ducks are back so hopefully it won't be that cold anymore and by the way , today was 2 C degrees :) .
Today I decided to take Bob back to my room , Bob is the hamster that Shota gave me for Christmas after me keep saying that I want a hamster , without really meaning it.. I put him to my host fathers computer room as he prefers to make noise every single night , in stead of sleeping. But now I feel like I ignored him way too much for last two weeks.. so I will take him back to my room , after tonight or after I get used to sleep at 10 and get up on time in the morning . First day of school was actually fun for me since I met my friends that I didn't see during march break and could not see for 1 week before March break as I did not go to school for a week cause of being sick :( . I actually still don't understand how can Canadians don't complain about the hospital system here , my host mother and I went to hospital at 730 and that was 3 am in the morning when we finally arrived home but everyone says that is normal in Canada , well it's not normal for a sick Turkish girl to wait. My host mom told me that after 12 i spoke in Turkish till I went back to the car , I don't really remember..
And somehow I got 93 in English exam! I kinda felt proud since I have the highest mark in class and I am Turkish , hehe ~ Today I noticed that I love art actually , I look forward to having double art tomorrow! But unfortunetly double is Science wednesday .. and I have a chemistry test on thursday and Shota is finally coming back from Japan as well! I am happy that I will finally see him after weeks.. Today my friend Urara told me that there are actually international high schools in Japan that accepts exchange students! I told my father about it and all he said was " I don't really want to decide on something without seeing you " , he is right about that .. I was not really planning to do it next year but anyways , who knows , I may end up in Japan in a few years or maybe for university.. Cem wants to go to Arabia or somewhere in Middle East to do his master degree in history in Arabic . I know that sounds weird too , maybe that's in our blood to want weird things.. Now I am supposed to do my chemistry homework , take a shower , have supper and sleep , hoping that tomorrow I won't be this sleepy! I am looking forward to going to Newwaterford this Thursday or Friday to see Shota , my friend Meaghan is also having a party in her house this weekend so I can't wait till it is Friday ! Don't forget the chemistry test on Thursday either Alara..
Video of the day is the song that Cem & Pablo are in love with ;
Istanbul (historically Byzantium and Constantinople), is the largest city of Turkey, home to a population of 8,803,468 in 2010. A megacity, it is the nation's cultural, economic, and financial center, ranked as an alpha(-) world city by GaWC in 2010.
Located in the northwest of the country, it lies on the Bosphorus strait and encompasses the natural harbour known as the Golden Horn. Extending both on the European (Thrace) and Asian (Anatolia) sides of the strait, Istanbul is the only city in the world situated on twocontinents. It covers 39 districts of Istanbul province. The greater Istanbul metropolitan area held 18% of Turkey's population in 2010. Its 13.26 million residents rank it third in Europe after those of London and Moscow.
During its long history, Istanbul has served as the capital of the Roman Empire (330–395), the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire (395–1204 and 1261–1453), the Latin Empire (1204–1261), and the Ottoman Empire (1453–1922). When the new Republic of Turkey was proclaimed in 1923 Ankara was chosen as its capital.
Istanbul's historic areas were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1985. It was named a joint European Capital of Culture for 2010 and the European Capital of Sports for 2012. Istanbul is currently bidding to host the 2020 Summer Olympics.
I don't think that we would have this much fun if he wasn't here anyways... Ottawa is what we call 'city' , Sydney is more like a village comparing to here and also where I am from . I am just so happy to see some high buildings after 8 months!! After seeing the town , now I decided that I would LOVE to live in this city . After arriving to our hotel & going and having supper in an Italian Restaurant , Kevin wanted to walk around the town . We walked around the parliament buildings and on the main streets .. Friday we will be going to Hard Rock Cafe - Ottawa which is another exciting place to go here! Kevin also promised to take me to a Turkish restaurant here in Ottawa , I am just sooo pumped for that !! After having 3 days in Ottawa , we will head up to Montreal , this makes me even more hyper when I think of that! I hope that I will also see my Turkish friend there when I arrive to Montreal and at least to go to a restaurant there with her ~ tomorrow we will be going to a few museums.. and to NHL hockey game!!!!!! We will watch NHL Ottawa Senators vs Boston Bruins and then have supper in " the ledge " :)) I am just so excited for tomorrow :O
