I've been a little (ok, A LOT) obsessed with Facebook over the last week!!
WOW U get to bite people, turn them into Vampires, play with vibrating hamsters, send growing plants and receive fish! (THANKS FOR THE 3 cute starfish Melissa!!! At least now I don't look like a saddo for sending myself 2 fish ;) Hehe.
And it's ALL YOUR FAULT MEEEEEEEENA!! Nyah nyah nyah! ;p Hee hee, no actually thanks Mel! It's fun, love it! HUGS.
Again, I'm not the speediest person when it comes to blogging, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook etc.
So some of you may think...whaaat? Facebook is like SO OLD. Where have U been Dawn?
Anyways, even though I got a Facebook account some time back, I never used it cos, well, I DIDN'T KNOW HOW. Dumb right?
DOH! (Has anyone watched the Simpson Movie? Me, not yet)
Sometime last week, Melina sent me an email (and some lovely pix from the wedding in France!) to cheer me up cos I'm having a hard time here. She mentioned FACEBOOK and searching for me there, and how it's so useful for finding long lost friends, classmates etc.
So I decide to revive my Facebook account and started getting addicted to it!
I used it to search for my friends and also found an Expats in Turkey forum (cos I'm just dying to converse with ANYONE in English without having to use hand signals!).
So ALL OF YOU READING THIS, JOIN FACEBOOK NOW and add me :) My nick there is BLUSH.
Promise I'll bite U!
And please please please send me things for my aquarium.
(U can stroke my hamster too....I've named him Milton and he's darn cute and vibrates)
Other than that, I decided to tweak my strategy for finding stuff to do here to keep me from going INSANE.
Joined another expat forum and postwhored myself there, got lots of replies about stuff to do.
If all goes as I hope, I might be able to:
1. Volunteer at an orphange/ Little Sisters of the Poor/ homeless dog shelter
(bearing in mind that I may probably have to spend a fortune on taxi fare since I don't drive here)
2. Sing, Act, dance, prance in kids theatre (they do shows for charity) That's if the Director doesn't think I'm pants.
3. Write a comprehensive English guidebook to Istanbul for newcomers
(There is a great French guide done by the French community here, but NONE in English...not as detailed and comprehensive anyway) U gotta LURVE the French for adding "Good places for Brunch" and "Chocolatiers and Patissieries" under the "ESSENTIALS" heading. Muahahahahahah! Vive la Froggies ;)
All proceeds of their guide goes to charity. So I thought I can do the same. With help from the BBC for all the local contacts. (Oh forgot to add that I'm planning to join a women's group which I, in Dawnspeak, christen the Bored B*****S Club. Hehehe. Go figure THAT one out.
4. Start paragliding lessons. Found a guy on the expat forum who does that every weekend and he told me there's a school.
They go to some ulu place about 130km from Istanbul. Anyone who knows me knows I LOVE jumping out of planes, off tall structures, so hey....jumping off a cliff and flying sounds like a lotta fun too! (Knowing the huge KLUTZ that I am though, high chance I may trip on a rock and hurtle face first into a cactus patch)
Anyone done paragliding before? SHARE SHARE TELL ME ALL. I want to know.
5. Try Ulimate Frisbee! Stumbled upon a Ultimate Frisbee group on the forum. They play 3 times a week and seems like a lot of young American college students studying here. Ok, so I haven't a CLUE what Ulitmate is, and nevermind that I'm proabably 10 YEARS older than the average player in that group, but they said we're welcome to join them anytime to play. Should be fun.. Frisbee = running, jumping, catching, throwing. Dawn = pathetic hand-eye co-ordination, stands there n WAITS for the tennis ball/shuttlecock/frisbee to come TO HER, gets doinked on the head by said item.
More later, right now I'm gonna make a sandwhich for lunch with Aunty Maude's delicious life-saving HARE BEE HIAM! (Half pack left...alamak.....gabra....finish how?)
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Welcome to the world of Facebook, Dawn! I only just joined myself a couple of months ago. I'm loving it - it's the biggest time-waster considering I could be doing something constructive like learning a foreign language or helping the destitute. And unfortunately it's been banned at work because it's "inappropriate" so I have to do it in my own time! :(
Mel
Ok... I've never even touched facebook so I must be... Ancient :). However, I'll give it a try. All your options sounds nice, and I could've told you about the paragliding option: I did that once in Germany, and there they explained the progression: first you do it easy, in Germany, then at the medium level in France, near the Pyrenees, and then, when you really know how, you go to Turkey to jump off the cliffs. Glad to know you're doing Turkey first.
It is a lot of fun to do, though. The most important aspect is being able to predict what the weather/wind will be the time you're in the air. This is easier said than done: you think it is always the same, but even in Germany I saw one of the students being taken away by the wind and tossed around and upside down (before landing safely). I wanted to go after that, but the teacher didn't allow us to jump after that wind change. I really recommend paragliding.
Have fun!
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