Waking up at six a.m. to start my day usually isn’t my thing, but for this, I was ecstatic. I was finally getting a chance to venture into a world unknown to me. I was headed to Turkey with my Foreign Exchange student, Ferda, to complete the second half of our exchange. After seventeen hours of flying, we were in Istanbul, Turkey. Ferda received news that our last flight from Istanbul to Izmir was delayed a few hours, so she called up her aunt who lives in Istanbul, and she lent Ferda and me her car and driver for a tour around the city. Before I arrived in Turkey, I imagined it to look like the Aladdin movies, and have sand dunes every where with exotic architecture and what not, but my first glimpse of Istanbul was nothing like that. Picture your perfect paradise on a Greek island and that is was these western Turkish cities look like. The sights I saw were unreal, and I began to slowly peel off the judgmental thoughts I had about the country. Istanbul is one of Turkey’s largest cities, all along the mountains you could see the millions of houses and apartments and other buildings. There were brilliant mosques, crowds of people, and the last thing you would expect… beautiful beaches, with sparkling, clear waters. As we drove over the bridge connecting the Asian and European continents, I was overwhelmed with this amazing feeling. All I can remember thinking was “Wow! I am really in Turkey. How crazy is this?!” I was a little nervous for my adventure in this crazy country, but I was ready for it to start.
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