Here I am starting a new season of my telenovela. I did it. I moved to Turkey.
I finally made my Turkish number work today (it wasn´t so easy since there is some stupid rule that if you want to use a Turkish SIM card, you must have a mobile phone purchased in Turkey - obviously this stuff must be cheaper abroad).
I was at a Turkish wedding in Ankara last weekend. I unfortunately missed the main celebration (the henna one) that happened two days before the ceremony. The ceremony happened in Hilton and if I don´t count some details such as the bride stepping quickly after her "Yes" on the groom´s foot to show who will reign at home, it was very "European". (Still I had great time with my crazy Turkish family.)
My main concern these days is where I can quickly improve my poor Turkish. And I am being surprised by little things like that Turkish don´t need any frozen food (our cooking is based on frozen meat, fish, vegetables, ...). I was advised by various Turkish people that when a Turkish man starts annoying me (wanting my mail address like last time for example), I can simply slap him. Well, I am not so sure. I guess there is something in us Czech girls that makes us be nice. I know that southern women (Portuguese, Italian or Turkish) tend to do such stuff very easily but I slap an unknown guy just when he physically or orally attacks me and not when he asks my mail address. Maybe it is because our society is not so showingly macho and therefore we don´t need to protect ourselves so much? I don´t know but I can learn slapping unknown guys more, since everyone says I have the right, it might be fun.
Enough for my mixed impressions of the first days here. Next time I must finally write about the Turkish toilets because that topic fascinates me!
Enjoy the new season of my telenovela. I will!
