Friends

I have been here four weeks now. I have made very slow progress with my Turkish, but it is the price I pay for having my great friends. All 0f them speak fluent English and they are fun. Haakan is the only other guy in my class and was the only guy last year. He's really cool, and smart, but a condesinding jerk to almost everybody. I find it greatly amusing to listen to him rant about the other kids, the teachers, the principal, the adults, the government, Bush, Obama, Islam, Christianity, God and his dog. We also have a lot of fun together and he's got a really cool mom who told me that I can use thier house as a second home whenever I want, and I had only talked to her for about 5 minutes. Michelle is the resident psycho of the group and has hilarious antics that are never the same twice. Sometimes she'll jump up from the lunch table and run after the cats that live at our school. Others she'll just start singing a random song, or pet a random gradeschool kid during our lunch hour. She's been reported to play the guitar and Im trying to get her to show me how to play the Bass. Dilara is the mother of the group, with a slight twist of drama queen. She's just as likely to be talking about her exboyfriend as what we are going to do this weekend. She gets thing done and she's really funny. These are my core friends. The other people in my class are really cool too, I just haven't gotten to know them as well. Everythings going really well so far. Im planing a solo trip up to Izmir on this comming bayrom (B i rom) which is a 9 day holiday. Im planing to spend the time with the other exchange students and getting to know Izmir better. It will also be a great chance to see if Im truely as far behind in my Turkish as I think I am.