asia and studying

yesterday was our last day in turkey! =( kristi and i woke up early and had breakfast so that we could get a good use of our time that day.. we started off by going to taxism square.. it was somewhere we were told we should go to and we hadnt yet so it was time to get ourselves there.. we walked a little bit to get out of the port area and then i called a taxi.. mhmm that was my first time getting a taxi and i was real good at it =) ha.. so it was about 7 lira to get us there and we got there at about 9am.. well basically there is this square where people meet up but then there is a street of a shopping district off it too so thats where we headed.. well nothing was open yet so we walked down the street for awhile and then decided to go to starbucks for a little bit while we waited for stuff to open.. we were able to pop into a few stores.. spend some of our left over lira and get some gifts for people and then headed back to the ship.. we got a taxi, made sure it had a meter like we were told to do and get in.. we go not very far at all.. and the whole time we are both watching the meter (again like we were told  to do) its ticking away the price getting higher than the ride there and not feeling like we had been driving for so long.. well its at like 6 something lira i look out the window for seriously 5 seconds tops and look back at the lira and it had somehow jumped to 11 something lira!!!! well we both noticed and spoke up to the driver right away, he tried to fight us for awhile that it was right and blah blah, well we finally decided to just get out where we were and walk the rest of the way because we knew where we were at so a 15 lira ride and another 10 minute walk later we finally got back to the ship.. very mad that the driver screwed us over.

at noon we left with Jackie and another girl in our hall cynthia to go get lunch in asia!  the process was relatively simple and very cheap (compared to the dumb taxi)  we had to take the tram (1.50 lira each way) and a 1.50 each way ferry ride.. when we got off the ferry we really had no idea where to go so we just started walking.. well finally we came across some restaurant looking places and some nice girl standing outside one asked if we wanted to look at a menu so we looked and decided to go there.. we debated between sitting outside or inside, they told us upstairs in the loft of their restaurant area was the air and it was cooler so we went there.. we sat at a table and were sweating like crazy.. they were only able to speak very little english so figuring out what the menu said was a bit of a struggle but the waitress from outside was trying her best to help us out... after like a 15 minute struggle to order something we were still sweating away.. well we were like the only ones there so the man whom i believe owned the place or was at least the most in charge moved us to a table that was in front of the air conditioner which was much better.. cynthia and jackie got really good looking sandwiches and kristi and i had both gotten pizza.. well after a long long long wait at least 20-30 minutes they came up and tried telling us they didnt have it and asked if we would be okay with this other pizza so we said okay.. they felt bad and brought us treats mini desserts as a gift and some were really good they kept coming up and checking that we were okay and trying to make everything perfect to satisfy us it was cute..finally our pizzas came out and we picked off some stuff we didnt want like the crap ton of olives and hot dog looking meat we were able to eat and then asked for the check.. the girl came up with more desserts for us and gave us each an evil eye on a pin and the check we left a good tip becuase they tried so hard to make us happy and the girl was overly grateful.. she asked us to wait a minute and went nad brought us a business card to a the same restaurant that is apparently in taxism square.. she said that her and her friends were going to some music festival thing there that night and wanted to meet with us and take us with them.. BUMMER we felt so bad because we couldnt go because we had to be back on the ship at 6 to sail out... it was a really cool experience though..

after lunch we walked around for awhile and then stopped at another place to get dessert again trying to use up the rest of our lira.. i got baklava!! yummm and then we headed back to the ship where i had spent the rest of the night working on my spanish journal... i got through croatia and have 10 PAGES!!! woohoo it has to be 15 at the end of the voyage no problem now!!! i skipped doing the journal i have to write about food in the countries that has to be 7 at the end because it was midnight when i finished the other one...

this morning i woke up printed out the journal grabbed a quick lunch and then went to class.. he said we have to have both in and gave everyone till tomorrow to work on them both some more.. so now i have to write that one tonight.. global studies was really boring today and i was super tired from lack of sleep the past couple days so when it got out a bit early i decided to nap for 20 minutes before global music.. well my 20 minute nap turned into about a 40 minute nap and i was just a little late to class... after class had lunch, took a shower and napped the rest of the afternoon.. literally.. tried to study a little bit for my music test tomorrow but was just too tired so i napped up until dinner time.. had dinner came back and now its study study study for the rest of the night for me and to write my other spanish journal... yipee school work