Friday, July 19, 2013

A rediscovered blog and a continued love...for Turkiye!


    For the last couple weeks I have been slowly but surely preparing for a presentation that I will be giving at my job about Turkey. It will be bitter sweet because it is also my last day working there because I have to get everything in order for my move to South Carolina, where I will be a graduate student at Clemson University. My job is at Somerby which is a retirement community in Hoover, Alabama. They have a focus on master class living, which pretty much means that they never stop learning. The VP there asked if I would give a talk about Turkey, which I am very excited about. I am especially excited because of the audience I feel I will be able to shake some misconceptions about the Middle East, especially misconceptions that older white protestant Americans would have.

    In preparing for my presentation I have discovered several blog drafts that I had wrote last summer but never got around to posting, they are below. I also in a sense rediscovered my blog and realized what a wasted opportunity it was. I have made the decision to continue to write blog posts in regards to Turkey even though I am not physically there anymore. I love the country and the culture so much that I hope others would get as much joy reading about Turkey as I do writing about it. I will also update on how my presentation went.

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