from Tim Tate
hey folks....
just thought i'd send an update. the flight over was magnificent. best flight ever. i will try to fly business class always the rest of my life. such a huge difference.
istanbul is stunningly beautiful. its the juxtaposition of new and ancient that seems so appealing. mike and i got to spend all last Friday in the city. we started at the blue mosque....went to the museum of sophia...incredible.......then down to the grand bazarre. architecturally breath taking....but sort of a bad duty free mall on a huge scale.
then off to the istanbul modern....where i saw my favorite video, photography and installation art of the last 5 years. 3 artists i had never heard of. a wonderful dinner there over looking the bosphorus.....which is one of the magnificent sights on earth.
class began on saturday.......but not without the australian student being the biggest pain in the ass in all our years of teaching. we are trying to manage him, but i think he is managing us. the others in the class include one american, 2 greeks, 4 turks, 2 armenians , the australian and an uzbekastanian who dissapeared in transit., as you can imagine, we spend most of our time here translating. we start by a statement in english....have that translated to turkish....the try to communicate in russian to the armenians. loads of fun.
other than the huge language barrier,and the australian......the staff and students are wonderful to us. we are way way out in the country....one and 1/2 hours from istanbul. very very little to do in the evenings. Friday night we go to a bbq restaurant on the river right near here. Saturday we are spending the day in istanbul with our old friend oz who we met in washington thru the smithsonian.
he will take us the the antique stores and artist studios all day, then his friend owns the best restaurant in istanbul which overlooks the bosphurus and we are being given the royal treatment. it will be a long but fun day.
Sunday we are going to the local flea market......then taking a boat to a second flea market. that should be fun.
anyway......i'm off .....more as it unfolds......
tim
just thought i'd send an update. the flight over was magnificent. best flight ever. i will try to fly business class always the rest of my life. such a huge difference.
istanbul is stunningly beautiful. its the juxtaposition of new and ancient that seems so appealing. mike and i got to spend all last Friday in the city. we started at the blue mosque....went to the museum of sophia...incredible.......then down to the grand bazarre. architecturally breath taking....but sort of a bad duty free mall on a huge scale.
then off to the istanbul modern....where i saw my favorite video, photography and installation art of the last 5 years. 3 artists i had never heard of. a wonderful dinner there over looking the bosphorus.....which is one of the magnificent sights on earth.
class began on saturday.......but not without the australian student being the biggest pain in the ass in all our years of teaching. we are trying to manage him, but i think he is managing us. the others in the class include one american, 2 greeks, 4 turks, 2 armenians , the australian and an uzbekastanian who dissapeared in transit., as you can imagine, we spend most of our time here translating. we start by a statement in english....have that translated to turkish....the try to communicate in russian to the armenians. loads of fun.
other than the huge language barrier,and the australian......the staff and students are wonderful to us. we are way way out in the country....one and 1/2 hours from istanbul. very very little to do in the evenings. Friday night we go to a bbq restaurant on the river right near here. Saturday we are spending the day in istanbul with our old friend oz who we met in washington thru the smithsonian.
he will take us the the antique stores and artist studios all day, then his friend owns the best restaurant in istanbul which overlooks the bosphurus and we are being given the royal treatment. it will be a long but fun day.
Sunday we are going to the local flea market......then taking a boat to a second flea market. that should be fun.
anyway......i'm off .....more as it unfolds......
tim
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