Merhaba!
First I must say that it took looong time before we hacked in here! (In Turkey this blog site is forbidden), but here we are and ready to post our first letter.
Adana-huge city with 3 million people living, sunshine, quite dirty, funny in its own way, religious but not too much, NO english speaking, full of people who are eating You with their eyes, Adana famous kebab, corba, banana milkshake, bazar-where you can buy the cheepest things(For example 3 kilo of grapefruits cost only 0,40 euro cents(8.-)etc. We have had soo much fun here because of the language barrier, but at the end it frustrates you that You only use two or three word to make yourself clear and they still dont get it!
Because of the beautiful weather and different food culture people should visit Turkey at least once in their lifetime! At first there will be many things You are suprised with, but You get used with them and dont notice them anymore- for example that the WC is not similar with the ones we are using at our homes, but You have a lovely hole in the middle of toiletroom and cup which you use to fullfill with water after your have finised your important things. The mosques, clothes, people friendliness and helpfulness is impressive, especially when You know that they dont earn that much and they have a big families.
But I think it is enough for now, we are going to take our first sun in the bushes(for them it is too early to go to beach and there is non close to us) and You wait for our next post about Hospital in here!!
(As You noticed we have corrected or tried to correct our mistakes and I apologize for fact mistake, population is about 3 million on Adana-Mersin Metropolitan area, in Adana it is ~1,6 million.)
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3 million people? Wrong. I have no idea how you pulled that figure out of your ass.
ReplyDeleteReligious city? Wrong. One of the least religious cities in the whole country. Walking on the street I see truckloads of attractively dressed women with no headscarf on and very few headscarf wearing women. Also no bearded guys. Not that anything is wrong with religious people, but you are flat out wrong.
Dirty? I have no idea what you are talking about. Garbagemen are doing a great job.
No English speakers? I am from Adana. I have a shitload of friends and relatives who speak English. And we are average folk, not super rich elites.
Also please learn to spell and use correct grammar. Maybe they could not understand you because you suck at English? Your heavy accent and incorrect pronunciations?
Eating you with them eyes? Getting stared at by curious people does not mean they want to rape you. Staring is common in most parts of the world. Probably you were acting unusually and making it obvious that you are a foreigner. It is also possible that they thought you were another batch of Eastern European prostitutes flooding Turkey.
Banana milkshake is a local delicacy? What the hell?
Hole in the ground toilets are rare as hell. Probably one in fifty toilets I come across.
No we don't have that much bigger families than what you have in your country. Look at statistics.
If you were trying to genuinely understand stuff without coming to wild conclusions I would treat you more politely. But you just sound like a judgmental, generalizing, ignorant fool.
I actually can guess what happened. You went to a little town or a village or a very poor district in the outskirts of the city (or the oldest, rundown settlements which are practically abandoned by the vast majority of people) where the place you stay is located and you just reached retarded conclusions about the entire city of Adana and the country of Turkey.
(Also, Estonia is not that much richer and not that much developed (human development index) than Turkey so that crap about how those poor people don't earn much is risible.)
This explains why you are talking about colorful different clothes people wear. That is villager garment. People in the city of Adana wear nothing dissimilar to what people wear in the western world. The same boring crap.
It also explains why you have no comment about several famous places in Adana.
What? Am I being too harsh to you? Well, you deserved it. We need a world where ignorance, bias and ridiculous ways of thinking are not tolerated.
You will gain my respect the day you stop doing that.
But seriously, how did you pull that 3 million figure out of your ass?
If you start commenting, keep it constructive and don't jump to conclusions about the poster. The post was made by a foreign student with no intimate knowledge of neither the city nor the country, so her views reflect her first experiences regarding Adana and are not meant to be generalizations. "We need a world where ignorance, bias and ridiculous ways of thinking are not tolerated." Your aggressive comments are not really helping the cause, Mr. Internet Tough Guy.
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