I wish you a merry christmas ! There, in Istanbul, Christmas go unnoticed, and there is just some little decorations in a few shops of the occidental area (Taksim). Everybody works like everyday. But Iwill not stay alone this evening : we organize a party in our flat with the french students community and some turkish french speakers and others nationalities. So, it should be nice.
Have a nice evening !
Monday, 16 February 2009
Istanbul, not Constantinople....
Some news from everyday... not so routine, finaly !
First some pictures which was missing in my last messages :
This is my flatmates with, in order :
Rebecca, Erasmus slovakian student, maybe the most quiet in the group, and realy nice :
Rebecca live in the same room with Anlame, turkish, student too, which open mind and good mood make her someone very pleasant... if she stay more than 5 minutes on her chair without moving :
Johanna, french, erasmus student too, is studying geopolitic in the middle east. Enthousiastic, I think it's the younger in the flat :
And there is Zivile : photographer, vintage nickless maker to sell it on Internet, this girl is always in good mood, helpful, and her english is very funny : How are you, Zivile ? Yes ! - My name is Gauthier - Yes ! - Are you for or against Obama ? - Yes... very funny ! But It is her who lend me her computer where I write this message.
Thank you Zivile ! - Yes !
Then Younes : from Marrocco, loving France after a few years spend in Paris, this guy is a "live wire" from everytime ! Studying economy in Galatasaray (where is formed the Turkish elite), this is Mr atmosphere :
And me... but you know.
I forgot to present you my pupil, Yohanna : she is the daughter of a famous football player, Rigobert Song, Who play today in a turkish club, Trapzon.
At 6 years old, mademoiselle know what she wants, but she's got a good tempered, and everything is OK !
There is an avantage to live with students : I meet other students.
Thanks Younes, I met Sébastien (left) and Aurélien (right) :
The first one studies economy with Younes, the second is in philosophie. But above all. we have together a beard and long hair... ;-)
Younes, Sébastien, Aurélien, Johanna, me, and other passing people, this form a french group and don't help to speak english or turkish, but lets spend some super parties !!!
Now, what about my daily activities ?
Just one obligation : Yohanna's teach. Generaly about 5 p.m., I need more than one hour to go and an other to go back. It's theoccasion for me to train a little myself with half past an hour of walk and about 300 steps in the metro 2 by 2 on the feet toe, héhé !
But it's suffiscient for a long day. To start, I wake up late, like ) a.m. or more if the night was short. Then I spend the time between cleaning the flat, reading, and internet. For that, I have got the choice between take a PC from one of my flatmates, or gogo out in a internet shop on Istiklal.
What is Istiklal ? It's a street name, but a very imprtant street ! It's as popularas Champs Elysées in Paris, and have the same function. I heard between Friday and Sunday, there was about 3 million people passing there in normal time ! You don't trust me ? Have a look on this picture :
At the end of this street, you arrive on a bridge on the "Golden Horn", which separate the west side in two parts, north (ancient occidental parts reserved before to the italian people) and south (where is the sultan palace). On this bridge, there is all the day a large cohort of fishermen fiching some sardines :
Smoke is dangerous...
And thereis some more extras. For example, Younes suggested meto gowith him in Galatasaray university for a conference gived by the ancient prime minister and actual european deputy Michel Rocard !
Subject : Turkie in Europe. Really interesting, but the most funny is I made the photo coverage for Younes who was trying to have a dedication for his last book : so I visit all the university, catching everything... And after the meeting, Younes and me were ready for the next picture :
Maybe there will be other VIP before marsh, héhéhé...
I have been invited in a concert : electro music in oriental mix with electric cythare (not guitare) and belly dance...strange but fun !
So, everything allright
Iyi Gunler !!!
First some pictures which was missing in my last messages :
This is my flatmates with, in order :
Rebecca, Erasmus slovakian student, maybe the most quiet in the group, and realy nice :
Rebecca live in the same room with Anlame, turkish, student too, which open mind and good mood make her someone very pleasant... if she stay more than 5 minutes on her chair without moving :
Johanna, french, erasmus student too, is studying geopolitic in the middle east. Enthousiastic, I think it's the younger in the flat :
And there is Zivile : photographer, vintage nickless maker to sell it on Internet, this girl is always in good mood, helpful, and her english is very funny : How are you, Zivile ? Yes ! - My name is Gauthier - Yes ! - Are you for or against Obama ? - Yes... very funny ! But It is her who lend me her computer where I write this message.
Thank you Zivile ! - Yes !
Then Younes : from Marrocco, loving France after a few years spend in Paris, this guy is a "live wire" from everytime ! Studying economy in Galatasaray (where is formed the Turkish elite), this is Mr atmosphere :
And me... but you know.
I forgot to present you my pupil, Yohanna : she is the daughter of a famous football player, Rigobert Song, Who play today in a turkish club, Trapzon.
At 6 years old, mademoiselle know what she wants, but she's got a good tempered, and everything is OK !
There is an avantage to live with students : I meet other students.
Thanks Younes, I met Sébastien (left) and Aurélien (right) :
The first one studies economy with Younes, the second is in philosophie. But above all. we have together a beard and long hair... ;-)
Younes, Sébastien, Aurélien, Johanna, me, and other passing people, this form a french group and don't help to speak english or turkish, but lets spend some super parties !!!
Now, what about my daily activities ?
Just one obligation : Yohanna's teach. Generaly about 5 p.m., I need more than one hour to go and an other to go back. It's theoccasion for me to train a little myself with half past an hour of walk and about 300 steps in the metro 2 by 2 on the feet toe, héhé !
But it's suffiscient for a long day. To start, I wake up late, like ) a.m. or more if the night was short. Then I spend the time between cleaning the flat, reading, and internet. For that, I have got the choice between take a PC from one of my flatmates, or gogo out in a internet shop on Istiklal.
What is Istiklal ? It's a street name, but a very imprtant street ! It's as popularas Champs Elysées in Paris, and have the same function. I heard between Friday and Sunday, there was about 3 million people passing there in normal time ! You don't trust me ? Have a look on this picture :
At the end of this street, you arrive on a bridge on the "Golden Horn", which separate the west side in two parts, north (ancient occidental parts reserved before to the italian people) and south (where is the sultan palace). On this bridge, there is all the day a large cohort of fishermen fiching some sardines :
Smoke is dangerous...
And thereis some more extras. For example, Younes suggested meto gowith him in Galatasaray university for a conference gived by the ancient prime minister and actual european deputy Michel Rocard !
Subject : Turkie in Europe. Really interesting, but the most funny is I made the photo coverage for Younes who was trying to have a dedication for his last book : so I visit all the university, catching everything... And after the meeting, Younes and me were ready for the next picture :
Maybe there will be other VIP before marsh, héhéhé...
I have been invited in a concert : electro music in oriental mix with electric cythare (not guitare) and belly dance...strange but fun !
So, everything allright
Iyi Gunler !!!
They are !
There are others !!!
A lot of people said my I am crazy, and at the end, I was afraid : am I the only one ?
No. Passing by the library of the French Institute of Istanbul, I have learned a few time ago, some walkers passed here for a world turn ! This is their website : http://toutenmarchant.free.fr/
Of course, it's all an organization, with money, logistic, but it's nice to see there is people ready for that ! More surprizing : they started their travel like me in April, and not from far : from Grenoble !
Friends !
I have written them for they keep mea room in New Delhi when they will pass in. After all, we never know... ;-)
A lot of people said my I am crazy, and at the end, I was afraid : am I the only one ?
No. Passing by the library of the French Institute of Istanbul, I have learned a few time ago, some walkers passed here for a world turn ! This is their website : http://toutenmarchant.free.fr/
Of course, it's all an organization, with money, logistic, but it's nice to see there is people ready for that ! More surprizing : they started their travel like me in April, and not from far : from Grenoble !
Friends !
I have written them for they keep mea room in New Delhi when they will pass in. After all, we never know... ;-)
Taxi
I have taken a taxi...
Said like this, it's nothing, but... Those who have test it in Turkie, Egypt, Algeria or same countries can surely understand me...
How to explain ?
Do you know the movie "TAXİ" from Luc Besson ? So, Daniel and his with taxi is a little player after the turkish drivers : they are killers ! And I heard they are worse during ramadan because of warm and hungry!
Third speed, one hand on the wheel, the other on the klaxonand let's go !!! (Geronimo !!!) Zig-zags in the traffic jam, forcing the through, brutal turns to find littles streets where just one car can pass, I see the rear-view mirror missing narrowly the obstacles... Turn right, turn left, klaxon and imprecations, always faster to be the first engaged in the street to have the right, come back on the speed way, zig and zag on a vague area in a mix of car and walkers and it's alive (yes, yes !) I arrive at destination.
Phew !
(a little plea to the saint of the taxi customers)
It was the back way. My first driver was older and slower, but as dangerous as the young driver driving so badly ! And I know what I say : those who have seen me driving know I am an expert in furious drive !
Said like this, it's nothing, but... Those who have test it in Turkie, Egypt, Algeria or same countries can surely understand me...
How to explain ?
Do you know the movie "TAXİ" from Luc Besson ? So, Daniel and his with taxi is a little player after the turkish drivers : they are killers ! And I heard they are worse during ramadan because of warm and hungry!
Third speed, one hand on the wheel, the other on the klaxonand let's go !!! (Geronimo !!!) Zig-zags in the traffic jam, forcing the through, brutal turns to find littles streets where just one car can pass, I see the rear-view mirror missing narrowly the obstacles... Turn right, turn left, klaxon and imprecations, always faster to be the first engaged in the street to have the right, come back on the speed way, zig and zag on a vague area in a mix of car and walkers and it's alive (yes, yes !) I arrive at destination.
Phew !
(a little plea to the saint of the taxi customers)
It was the back way. My first driver was older and slower, but as dangerous as the young driver driving so badly ! And I know what I say : those who have seen me driving know I am an expert in furious drive !
And the life get organized...
I lived 10 days in a youth hostel closed to Sultanhamet, the real touristy area of the west side. During this time, I looked for a mean to win money and find a flat without loosing my shirt...
For the job, I have seen by surfing on the web I didn't have any work autorisation... Not planned, that ! But for one hand, to have it, I need to pay and wait for a long time, and for an other hand I learned a large part of strangers here work in official posts without any autorisations and any problems... Just remains the language barrier. So, I checked the french community, and french schools (there is a lot here!), and I have proclaimed myself "scholar assistant" to give some help to pupils in trubbles.
I went in a primary school called "Pierre Loti", just in the same time with a help request from a mother's pupil... So, now, I've got a very nice little pupil, Yohanna, and I make her repeat her lessons everyday !
Then, for the flat, I betted on collocation, and on a french forum, I found a very nice place not far of Taksim (for who know). We are 6 : one French girl, one Lituanian girl, one turkish girl, one slovakian girl, one boy from Marocco, and me ! That is 3 french speakers... It's the Yussuf fault, the owner : he speak better french than english and let his announcement on french websites, so...
They are student (Erasmus) except the Lituanian girl who his photographer (and me who is... nothing !). The atmosphere is very nice, all confort, nothing to say, super.
OK, let pass the next 4 months. So, don't be surprise if there is no new message during this time, because my environment will not change like before.
Ciaobye!
For the job, I have seen by surfing on the web I didn't have any work autorisation... Not planned, that ! But for one hand, to have it, I need to pay and wait for a long time, and for an other hand I learned a large part of strangers here work in official posts without any autorisations and any problems... Just remains the language barrier. So, I checked the french community, and french schools (there is a lot here!), and I have proclaimed myself "scholar assistant" to give some help to pupils in trubbles.
I went in a primary school called "Pierre Loti", just in the same time with a help request from a mother's pupil... So, now, I've got a very nice little pupil, Yohanna, and I make her repeat her lessons everyday !
Then, for the flat, I betted on collocation, and on a french forum, I found a very nice place not far of Taksim (for who know). We are 6 : one French girl, one Lituanian girl, one turkish girl, one slovakian girl, one boy from Marocco, and me ! That is 3 french speakers... It's the Yussuf fault, the owner : he speak better french than english and let his announcement on french websites, so...
They are student (Erasmus) except the Lituanian girl who his photographer (and me who is... nothing !). The atmosphere is very nice, all confort, nothing to say, super.
OK, let pass the next 4 months. So, don't be surprise if there is no new message during this time, because my environment will not change like before.
Ciaobye!
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