Halloween

Wow it's been forever since I've written in here! Things have been pretty crazy here - but nothing noteworthy has been happening, just working. I was really sad about not being home lately because fall is my favorite season and I absolutely love doing things like seeing the leaves change colors, going to apple orchards, drinking fresh hot apple cider, picking out a pumpkin and carving it... and here they don't really have pumpkins like we do... they are huge and white and ugly and they sell them by the kilo- people just buy a chunk to cook with, they don't buy the whole one... but I asked how much the whole thing was and they weighed it and it was 38 YTL!! (32 dollars) I scratched that and did the next best thing I could think of... I bought a watermelon. And carved it. Yep, you heard me right! haha, I felt oh so ridiculous, but it was beautiful. Then we used it at the Dilko Halloween party and it was great.
Posing for a picture with Pinar (the sweet sweet office lady that gives us board markers when we need them, etc), two of my students, and co-worker Anthony at the Halloween party.
My beautiful "pumpkin" on display at the Halloween party! :)