Put on Hold

Once again I have not wrote on my blog for over three months :( !!The blog hasn't been forgotten just put on hold for awhile. I have lots of things going on right now, but I do hope to write about these things soon.

These include :

• I am currently teaching ESL lessons to 3-14 years old at a local mosque every Wednesday. So the preparation for these classes takes up time.
• Expecting baby number 2 again in February 2015, so being pregnant and having a 1year old running around all the time doesn't give me a whole lot of free time!
• Still working as a music manager for two groups, this as well takes up a lot of time
• Striving to be a better Muslim through studying different subjects and teaching others
• Plus the usual household responsibilities and endless errands and the what seems like weekly appointments

I hope to get back on track soon and find time to sit and write about my experiences, adventures, successes, failures and ideas!

 

Playing catchup soon

Last time I wrote was sometime in the middle of Ramadan, and then my sister came to visit at the end of Ramadan for two weeks and now I'm getting back into my work, plus I have little Fatima to run around with. So there has been no time to write about my adventures.

But, I do hope to finish my adventures in Turkey series soon and possibly get back on track with the French cooking series.

While you wait check out some of these other blogs or news articles :
Michele from Cincinnati (stumbled upon her blog looking up French nationality stuff) http://lifeenfranglais.blogspot.fr/
Paris Daily Photo http://www.parisdailyphoto.com/
http://kathandroger.wordpress.com/
Tintin - a beloved comic strip - http://us.tintin.com/



 

Do not try this at home

There is a video circulating on Youtube of a guy jumping onto the roof of a moving metro...like I said don't try this at home.
There is buzz going around if he is a stuntman or attempting suicide. I guess we will not know unless he attempts it again. At the end of the video he states, 'that it didn't goes a planned but I'm still living" and that he now has ideas for the future on how to make it better.

What would you do if you saw someone jumping on to the roof of a moving metro ?

 

Ramazan Pide / Turkish Bread for Ramadan

The other day we were out of bread, my husband eats bread with everything and by everything I mean even pasta and potatoes. Talk about a lot of carbs.

So we were out of bread ...I decided since it was Ramadan and I had a recipe sitting around for Ramazan pide, I would try to make it. But the one I had seemed kind of complicated. So, I looked up Ramazan pide english recipes online and stumbled across this one.

The final result was 100+% husband approved. He said it was so much better than the store bought and that would like it a few times a week if possible. And because this recipe is easy I think that I can do that.

 Afiyet Olsun / Bon appétit!


 

Adventures in Turkey : Driving

While in Turkey we ended up buying a car (due to some family issues), a Renault from the 80's for 7,000 lira (2500 euros at the time).

driving to Elazig from the village, dirt roads the whole way till the expressway

Here we are getting the 80's material out and getting black and red retro style in (which somehow I don't have a picture of)

Driving in Turkey is a nightmare. If you have ever driven in Paris, its 10 times worse. I thought that the French drive horrible, with no respect for traffic laws, but Turkish drivers are worse. Since we were in Eastern Turkey, there are not a whole lot of women who drive for reasons I couldn't figure out. So everytime I was driving or got in the car, I got stares, but I brushed it off because I am just as comptent or more as the other drivers on the road.

There is no respect for traffic laws, like there would be stop signs and no one would stop. Or the round about, which I don't even understand in the first place, and people would just all go in at once. Or they would drive without their lights on in the middle of the night. People crossing the street right in front of you (I decided I would honk the horn everyone did this). Lots and lots of stories. And apparently the traffic is worse in Istanbul than where we were!!

Every time we left the city there would be a police check and I kept telling my husband I hoped that we would get pulled over, so that I can give them a discourse on driving in Turkey and how they really aren't doing their job. The one time we almost got pulled over was a false alarm, the police wanted the car in front of us, but I told my husband it was because I was a woman and they didn't want to deal with me!


Have you ever driven in Turkey or do you have a French driving experience ??