Republic Day of Turkish Republic & Budapest ♥

I love this city so much, darn! It's the perfect combination of history and modernism, it's indescribable :) Turkish Embassy in Hungary sent me an invitation for Republic Day of Turkey last month. When i got the mail i felt so special because my own country's embassy sent me an exclusive invitation in my name written! I immediately sent a message to my other turkish exchange friends about the occasion and arranged everything altogether.

Then we met yesterday, early in the morning. We were all hungry and we knew that there was a turkish restaurant, so we started to look for it. After walking half an hour finally we found it! We all directly ordered our food then sat down. I missed most of the turkish foods and was so excited to taste them again. It was perfect! I remembered how i miss İstanbul :( Anyway it was still amazing :) And we listened turkish music after 2.5 months! I felt like i was in Istanbul for a moment :P

After having a perfect lunch we went for sightseeing. We saw the monumental Parliament. We went to a coffee shop to have drinks near the Europe's second longest river and most gorgeous one Danube. As you can see we had lots of fun! Living one day as a total turkish guy in abroad made me feel like a bomb which is waiting for activation heheh :)
Then... It's time for getting ready :) After dressing up we went to the Museum of Fine Arts where the reception held.

We talked all night long, we've missed each other so much. We drank Rakı ,our national drink, ate lots of turkish food during day and at night, talked turkish after months... In a word, we lived one day as if we were in Turkey :) I really needed that motivation and it was perfect!

And here are my sweet Turkish Exchange Friends! 

As i don't live in Budapest i had to sleepover at someone's house. Thanks to sweet volunteer Niki Buda from AFS orientation camp i had a place to sleep :) And after all in the morning i've met our angel Eszti and my mexican friend Monica to have breakfast then go back to Győr. They were in a concert which Mexican embassy sent an invitation to Mony Pony :) Look at us! We were all so tired that our dark circles wouldn't be more annoying in the picture :D

I love Budapest! It's a really nice place to live, shop, wander around, spend time with friends... I mean everything! I hope that I'll see you soon Budapest! :)

I Am An Exchange Student!

–How are you going to know what a dream is, if you never fulfilled one?
–How are you going to know what an adventure is if you never took one?
–How are you going to know what anguish is, if you never said “goodbye” to your friends and family with your eyes full of tears?
–How are you going to know what desperation is, if you never arrived to a place alone, and without understanding what people was saying?
–How are you going to know what missing is, if you were never far away from home?
–How are you going to know what diversity is, if you never shared the same roof with people from all over the world?
–How are you going to know what tolerance is, if you never had to get used to something different, even if you didn’t like it?
–How are you going to know what autonomy is, if you never had to take decisions for yourself?
–How are you going to know what growing up is, if you never stopped being a child for starting a new way?
–How are you going to know what impotence is, if you never felt like hugging somebody, but a screen was stopping you?
–How are you going to know what distance is, if looking on a map you never said “How far away I am!”
–How are you going to know what a language is, if you never had to learn one to make new friends?
–How are you going to know what patriotism is, if you never screamed “I love my country!” holding a flag in your hands?
–How are you going to know what a party is, if you never travelled hours to get to one?
-How are you going to know what reality is, if you never had the chance to see many different ones, to form a new one?
–How are you going to know what a chance is, if you never took one?
–How are you going to know what pride is, if you never felt it for yourself when realizing what you have achieved?
–How are you going to know what enjoy your time is, if you never saw it going away very fast?
–How are you going to know what a friend is, if circumstances never taught you who are the real ones?
-How are you going to know what family is, if you never had one that supported you unconditionally?
–How are you going to know what a frontier is, if you never had to cross yours, to see what is beyond?
–How are you going to know what money is, if you never had to administrate yours to make it last?
–How are you going to know what imagination is, if you never thought about the moment of going back home?
–How are you going to know what the World is, if you have never been to abroad as an AFSer ?

Szüret*

*Picking up grapes is really hard thing to do if you're not used to it. Last sunday all AFS'ers in Győr and Sopron gathered in Sopron to go to the Szüret. Because of living Győr we had to wake up so early that we could catch the bus to Sopron, which took us 1.5 hour to go. It was the first time that i had ever woken up so early, i woke up at 4 a.m! It was really exhausting :D In addition, Hungary is really cold at nights and early mornings. It's like 10 degrees in the morning and then 25 degrees in the afternoon!

After all, when we arrived in Sopron it was 9 a.m and we started to work immediately. It was a really laborious job. We were like a crew separated in 2 groups :)

And this is how a Hungarian grape looks like. It's smaller than the Turkish grape but it tastes really good :)

And... At the end we picked up lots of grapes! There were like a zillion grapes! :D

Then we went to a special place to make wine. Finally, at the end of the process we drank must (click on it!) which means young wine. It was really delicious!

I know it's kind of cliché but frankly I had really nice experiences that i'll never forget :)

It's Britney, Bitch!

"Britneeeey, Britneey!!!!" Most of the people going to the concert was shouting crazily in Budapest streets! Britney Spears means Pop Culture! And that pop culture was in Hungary a week ago! She rocked the whole city! :P And as for me it was an unforgettable memory because unfortunately i don't think that she'll come to Turkey in the next years :( So... I'm super glad that i've got the chance to see childhood pop diva :)

She sang mostly all of her popular songs. Mostly from 'Femme Fatale' album and her previous songs which are "...Baby, One More Time; Toxic; Oops!... I Did It Again" etc... Then she made the final with "Till The World Ends" it was super cool!


And here's the ending, if you want to watch just click on it :)