Glad to be a women.

Being in Turkey I have experianced some different things. But last night was the first of the most shocking. Its called sünnet (circumsison.) In the muslum religon it is custom. And you can do it anywhere from age 4 to 10. But you must do it in between thoes times. And so we went to a sünnet celebration. And the boy was litteraly dressed like the picture. But also sat in a throne type thing (of corse all of our cameras were broken) and then there were clowns and all this kids class mates came. There was food and a huge cake and dancing and what not. It was all for little kıds though (like a birthday party for a seven year old that you have to go to.) But it was fun, I got a ballon hat and a pitchure with a clown and to eat blue cake! Life just doesnt get better! Celebrating a circumsion..

Castle

Me, Alec and Yaşar (driven by my host dad) went and saw (my) first castle! Snake Castle. The reason its called snake is because it is on the top of a snakey mountaiın. It swivers and turns all over! This castle was built back in the Ottoman Empire. And there was no entrance fee, no gates no ropes. Nothıng. You could go and do whatever you wanted there. Which was really good but also ment that a lot of it was run down and falling apart.

You will never guess who took this picture! A group of Turkish boys and after, there was about six of them, and they all wanted indiviual pictures with me. So I was sitting in this spot for about 10 minutes...

Knowing me, we climed litterally everywhere. This place was like a big playground for kids. You cant see here but if I looked down there was a huge clif and on the other sid was another one!

The main door

A lovley window!

on these stairs, half of them were gone so it was kind of like a "climb at your own risk" kind thing.

This is our "perfect" thinking spot.

Of corse most of it is gone, but it was still really amazıng.

Going into another one of the holes.

In the hole, in America this would totally be forbidden.

The snake castle, so amazıng and bıg.

So you know how you "shouldnt write on the rocks?" well we wrote this, along with other peoples writings, on the castle. Always to be remembered: Another Fat Student!