Conrad's Blog - An American Life in IstanbulConrad's Blog - An American Life in IstanbulI have picked up my roots and moved to Istanbul, Turkey. I started this blog as a way of keeping family informed, but it has become a window into Turkish culture with many unique insights. This blog is a record of my observations, learnings and way o Articles
Turkish Parking
2007-10-02 08:43:00 Current Mood: AlarmedThe parking space that Izzy got his car into was so small I thought I should take a picture and share it with everyone. In general in Turk ey, people park very close together. After successfully parking his car without hitting the car in behind him, Izzy took a picture of the other car ... More About: Culture , Parking , Turkish
Another day climbing in Ballikaylar
2007-10-02 08:37:00 Current Mood: HappyI was supposed to diving on Saturday, but on Friday night the guy running the trip said that I couldn’t go because I was a foreigner and they needed to file some extra paper work because I was a foreigner. So at the last minute my plans changed. I ended up doing nothing ... More About: Pictures , Climbing , Social Life , Bing , Limb
Germany and Poland Pictures
2007-09-28 12:01:00 Pictures from my Germ any and Poland are up at: Germany and Poland Pictures I have been really busy since I got back so i haven’t had much time to post. This weekend I am going diving one day and outdoor climbing the second day, so I should have some good pictures for you on Monday, and maybe a ... More About: Pictures
Germany: A Butcher and a Hotel
2007-09-22 09:20:00 Current Mood: HappyThere are two reasons I haven?t written in a while. One, I am on a business trip through Germ any , and then next week Poland. The other reason is that until about one minute ago, I had not finished watching all three seasons of the TV show Lost. Now that that is done, I ... More About: Hotel
Turkish Coffe and Tasseography
2007-09-14 11:36:00 Current Mood: Cool I had to look up Tasseography too, so I will save you the trouble and start off this entry with its definition (according to wikipedia.org): << Tasseography (also known as tasseomancy or tassology) is a divination or fortune-telling method that interprets patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediments. The terms derive from the ... More About: Culture , Turkish , Graph , Turk
Ramadan
2007-09-13 16:35:00 Yesterday marked the first day of Ramadan . I won’t go into extreme detail about what it is, so if you are interested you can read Wikipedia’s Ramadan Page. Simply put, Ramadan is an Islamic religious observance. It takes place during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar (it’s a lunar calendar, so it ... More About: Culture
Ant?s Birthday
2007-09-13 12:55:00 Ant’s Birthday was about two weeks ago, but I just got the pictures from Izzy (he was on a week long hiking trip in the south of Turkey). Still exhausted from my vacation in the US, I took a nap and showed up for the clubbing half of the night (I skipped dinner). We went ... More About: Pictures , Social Life
My Blog Turns 6 months old!
2007-09-12 13:35:00 It has been 6 months since I created this blog. For those of you that might be interested here is some general information about my blog so far. Number of posts: 108 Number of comments: 91 Visits since I started using a statistics program (June 22, 2007): 950 Visits by month June07 ... More About: Blog , Months , Month , Mont
Istanbul Windsurfing Championships
2007-09-12 10:38:00 I didn’t compete, but I stopped by to see what was going on. The third leg of the Istanbul wind surfing championships was held at the wind surfing club I go to, less than 2 miles from my house. So on Friday afternoon of last week, we stopped by to see how things were going. ... More About: Championships , Social Life , Champion , Cham
Teaching English
2007-09-10 11:19:00 At the request of several of my coworkers, I have begun having a sort of English class at 5pm everyday (well we started on Thursday, and Friday’s was canceled because we had a small crisis in Greece). I have mostly just gone over some vocabulary with them and have been doing small phrases with them. ... More About: Teaching
Turkish Medical Care
2007-09-06 12:51:00 Current Mood: HappyI went back to the doctor today. I decided I should figure out how this whole health insurance thing works. According to Dilek, the woman at my health insurance company that is my contact (she’s the only one I could get on the phone to speak English), I have the best health insurance, ... More About: Medical , Turkey , Care , Turkish , Turk
Blog Update: Removed company name
2007-09-05 11:12:00 I decided that I do not want potential customers reading my blog. If they are searching for information on my company, they should find my blog - I am sure that is not what they are looking for anyway. Also, the fact that they can read my blog makes me a little bit more reserved. ... More About: Company , Blog , Update
Rock?n Coke 2007
2007-09-03 18:07:00 This weekend, I went to Rock ’n Coke 2007 with Izzy. What’s Rock’n Coke? Rock’n Coke is an outdoor music festival sponsored by Coke, that takes place at a small air field not too far from where I live (in other words, really far from where all of my friends live). It was an all weekend ... More About: Social Life
HuskyCon V: Report
More articles from this author:2007-09-01 15:39:00 So I wrote an article for the web zine on the diplomatic pouch (www.dipom.org). You can click the following link to go to where the article is posted, or simply read below. Diplomatic Pouch Zine: HuskyCon Report by Conrad Woodring HUSKYCON V REPORT by Conrad Woodring My family has been hosting HuskyCon at our home in Long Island, ... 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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