Shopping in Turkey to Taylor Swift music

It's been a few days since I 've written. During that time, quite a bit has happened. We saw more sites, climbed more ruins and had more interactions. The night after the tea with the nice old gentleman, we arrived in Konye. In Konye, we made an adventure to a local mall. Would you believe that they were playing Taylor Swift in the Turkish mall? Most of the people here don't speak English, yet the music is definately American. At the mall, Ginny and I managed to buy knitting needles and yarn in only Turkish, because the poor sales woman didn't speak any English. Communicating "multi-colored sock yarn" was one of the most difficult challenges yet! We ended the night with a knitting party in the room Liz and I shared. This evolved into a conversation on religion between Rose, ginny, Liz, Erin, Josh, and Chris. It was one of the few conversations where no one was attacked for religions. Yay! I love it when people can understand, not judge, and still respect people.

The next day, we went to some ruins, but I was not feeling very good, so I just crashed when I got back to the hotel. I even missed dinner. The hotel in Antalya's elevator was broken, so I hiked up five flights of stairs with my suitcase. Thank goodness I packed light! I slept for the rest of the night, without even getting under my blankets. It may have been the greasy fish we had for lunch. the fried fish was amazing, but I'm not used to that much fried food at once. The view from the restaurant, though, of one of Turkey's biggest lakes was gorgeous! So blue! If it were warmer, I would have been swimming. I feel bad that I scared Liz so much, though, when I was sick.

Communicating "multi-colored sock yarn"

I woke up the next day, which was yesterday, feeling much better. We visited Perge and saw a bath and agora. It was pretty sweet. The we listened to a lecture from a linguist from Istanbul Iniversity about the Lycean language, which involves so many symbols, I'm amazed people can keep track of them all. Guess what...the word Lycean...it's actually pronounced Leek-ee-uhn! I would not have figured that out on my own.

Today we get on a boat to sail the Mediterranean! During the drive our tour guide keeps providing neat little myths and legends of the people of Turkey. I wish I would have jotted them down. I think Erin R. may have them. She mentioned wanting to do her paper on them...