Sometimes Being An Expat Is Frustrating
Moving abroad is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. The last year has been ridiculously exciting,…
January 12, 2014Moving abroad is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. The last year has been ridiculously exciting,…
January 12, 2014It began like this: “Let’s meet at Haydarpasa. I think there’s some kind of performance there tonight.” I…
January 6, 2014There are a lot of clichés about Istanbul— it’s where East meets West, it’s European and Middle Eastern.…
January 2, 2014I love Istanbul for its wild energy, its never-ending activity. Life is almost always exciting in Istanbul. But…
December 29, 2013I don’t get homesick very often. Aside from an early case of the Istanblues, I love living abroad…
December 24, 2013Late October. We sat in a small Istanbul café, him and me, four years after our last meeting.…
December 22, 2013The first roll of slide film I ever shot was Ektachrome 200G, gifted to me by the friend…
December 17, 2013When I was in college, a few friends of mine started a club called SASS– Students Acquiring Social…
December 15, 2013I noticed it first when the pomegranates disappeared. In the beginning of my time here in Istanbul, the…
December 10, 2013I remember my first exposure to cross-processing. Back in college, I was lucky to have a lot of…
December 8, 2013