hey folks.....

class is over now. everyone seemed happy....much tears. mike and i can rest at last.

food gets stranger....yesterday we had kool-aid and pudding....woo-hoo! weirdly enough the kool aid was made by boiling olives and adding sugar.....the pudding was milk, sugar and chicken breast.....yes........chicken breast. the odd thing is that mike and i actually liked it!

fearing the stockholm syndrome, we are escaping the stalig today and going under the wire. mike and i leave shortly to head into that magnificent city. we will be spending the day searching for air conditioning and edible food.

after lunch we will join richard jolley and tommy rush and are going to check out more of the contemporary art scene here......then all of us are heading back to that magnificent restaurant from the other night.

alright.....this should turn things around. we can't wait to get into istanbul today.

talk to you all later :)

tim