Last night I met some other Bogazici students at an non-Bogazici-specific international student outing (that had only Bogazici students) to the Basilica Cistern. In the email sent out they promised traditional Turkish art and music with treats. I love treats.
After a poke around the largest of several ancient cisterns beneath Istanbul, we were given the first of our treats, which was individually wrapped fruit cakes and juice boxes. While we munched on the Turkish equivalent of Little Debbie's a quartet played music for a solitaire whirling dervish doing his thing. While most of my fellow students were snapping shots of the Semazen (yeah, that's the proper term), I became much more impressed by the wrappers collecting at the center of the table.
Apparently, I'm not the only one without home refrigerator and meal plan for the first time. The second treat of the night was socks. Everyone was even more excited about the free socks than they had been about the fruit cake and a lot of cotton was accidentally ingested.
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