Random stuff
Hello world (there are som many out there reading my blog that I get shy...), I think I could use this blog as a means to keep people up to date with my daily life as I travel. Alright, I have been doing this from the beginning, but today, since I have nothing to do, I will just talk about random stuff. Recently, I discovered a book called "truth" where the author starts of by saying that after having written an essay on bullshit entitled "On bullshit..." he would move on to discussing the concept of truth. Discovering that some philosophers write whole essays on the topic of bullshit makes me feel like it's not only ok but also deeply philosophical to write the most random things in my blog. So here we go, today I woke up at 9:22 and put my blue tee shirt with stripes. Then I left home forgetting to brush my teeth and saw a mag pie. At 3:24 I ate strawberry cheesecake.
Ok very funny, now some more interesting news. Today, I received a call from the dutch embassy. To my surprise and great relief, the woman speaking at the other end of the line told me that my new pasport had arrived! After having been treated badly at the embassy, having been forced to wait for 2 hours hungry and cold (I think they try to recreate the dutch atmosphere by putting the air conditioning on maximum), and being told that there was no way to make the process hurry and that we would have to wait between 10 days and 3 weeks to get the new passport, it took only 7 days to receive the expected phonecall! This news really made our day. Earlier, we had a trip to the hospital, where thanks to some connections, I had a whole health check up for about 8 euros :) I would have had to wait for 3 months to get this in France so I am pretty happy about that!
Now I have been sitting, turkish style, about 3 hours in a coffee place eating nice pastries and drinking tea while Sıla is at the hairdresser's. Even my most feminist friend becomes a real lady in Turkey... I am thinking of leaving for a trip in a beautiful region in the South of Ankara for a few days while Sıla takes care of some things here. It's called cappadocia and looks very cute. It also has a very rich history and a lot of very ancient christian remains. Then, I still don't know precisely the timing and order of things, but I know that we might go to another city called Adana, and somehow, since I now have a passport, I will then go to Armenia. I am not planning on going back to France or Holland yet, it will propably take me some more months as I am planning to stay in Armenia for a while and try to find an internship. I am so excited about discovering this country, which is, although part of my distant cultural heritage, almost totally unknown to me! I hope you are all good, don't hesitate to write and give me your postal addres so that I can send some postcards!
Love from the road Philippine