Turkey, Newroz, Alanya etc..

I hate this situation as much as I did yeserday, and the day before that, and the day before that.

And I miss Turkey life. Not Turkey itself, I would love any place as long as Halil was there. The day he gets a permanent visa for example, then we will never go to Turkey again naturally...

Not my point. I have pointed out before that I miss the life we had there, it was so relaxed. And people are so friendly.. (OUR friends that is, who are not fascistic idiots from hell :-)  Fake, probably, but not fascists so then it's OK:-) 

My first favorite was Newroz. It was GREAT! Except for the fact that our laptops got stolen while we were there.. But anyway. I was not suppose to come, cause we only had money for one ticket. But we made a little math and found out that I COULD in fact come. There is one think I despise about Newroz, that police thinks its necessary to be like 500 police and army in little Izmir for a celebration... FUCK YOU!
Well, I was a liiiittle scared when we were going in to the place where we were gonna celebrate, cause everyone was searched by police before they let you in. They asked me if I was yabanci and i said yes, they checked me fast and then let me go inside with Halil. And never have I seen a more positive mood in my life, and so many colorful dresses! I was so fascinated by everything that I cannot explaine it in words. There were many speaches, one Turkish man also spoke, he is fighting for Kurdish rights, and he was the only one I could understand :p
I don't know how I can describe the whole experience.. It kind of a thing you have to be there to understand I think. But it was so great, everybody was happy, singing and dancing. BUT my favorite part was... :  I have always loved Koma Zerdeste Kal, really, my all time favorite Kurdish singer, looong before I even knew Halil existed.. AND WHO WAS SINGING??   Guess twice ;-) But as I said, there was no point in having those police officers and all that army.. Can you kill someone with singing and dancing? No.. They just wanted control and power.. Even I was singing and half dancing, and I was singing words I didn't even know :P  But it was so fun, it must really have been the most fun I had in all my Turkey time!

I was evedently very fascinating, since I was from Europe! :P

It's looking like real terrorism right? People having fun, singing and dancing? When I was in the police station they said I was a terrorist and wanted me to throw away all the Kurdish things I was wearing, but guess what? I am Norwegian, what can they say?  I have EVERYTHING still, why should I throw away something I like?? ;)

One thing I did not like in ANY way.. The EARTHQUAKES... Yes, earhquakeS!
First time, me and Halil had a small fight, I told him to wake me up in an hour cause I wanted to sleep. Then I woke up by the bed shaking like hell, and I thought;  Go away you idiot!  Cause I was sure this was Halil's way of waking me.. Then he comes running in and saying we had to get the hell out of there cause something happened. We got out, came down and got the message that it was an earthquake.
A week or so passed, we were sitting in the livingroom when it started shaking again, like REALLY shaking, the type where glasses are falling and stuff, and we RAN out, and fast!  Luckily nothing broke, no houses and stuff, but another city was not so lucky, and it had a strengt of 6,5 on ritchers scale.  The following days it was several more earthquakes, it was really scary for me, even though they were not as big, and in television they said that we had to prepare for a big one.
It might seem a little stupid what we did next:

 We planned an escape route, where we would jump if a big one came. Cause if it would be as big as they said in television, we would have no way of making it down the stairs from 3rd floor before everything collapsed.. SO I packed what I called an "earthquake bag" which I had by my side at all times no matter where we were, with  our passports, visa card, some phone cards, my medicine and like 50TL. Just in case.. The earthquake must have been big too, cause they felt it all the way in Alanya too.  And the fact that it came 2 in a night, and I woke up by another one, who wouldn't be scared?  And in my head it made sence to make these plans, and pack that bag when it had been a total of 4 (later on 6) earthquakes (only 2 were big) in a few days. Better safe than sorry. 
It might sound crazy, but it was a thrilling fear ;P 

One of my favorite times was when it started to get so warm and we didnt have aircondition. I think I have written it before too, but it was so warm that we moved our bed outside, on the balcony. But the balcony was like hell too, so we showered in ice cold water, then we (or I) put on pyjamas without drying the water, and waited for just a little breath of wind that would feel like aircondition. Why it is my favorite time was, well I don't know, it just was. We didn't have television or computer, and honestly I didn't really miss it either, so we were sitting every day, and night, playing cards, talking, joking, eating fresh fruit and it was so nice. And then he would hold me, all night, and it just felt so safe, kind of. 

Another thing I didn't like.. Our company. Really our aparment was like a CRAZY house every night when we moved. There was 2 people I really liked, one of them turned our to be an idiot, but one of them is still our friend. But all the other gorillas, they were making a mess EVERY DAY, breaking glasses, fighting with each other, they ALWAYS wore shoes inside so it was dirty (and who had to clean it?), they were always hungry ..  I must say, I was actually a little happy the day they made so much noise that we were not allowed to have visitors from people from Turkey! I got in a verbal fight with one of them, like I should be scared or something.. So really, when they said our friends could not come there anymore, I was happy. They were definitely not MY friends anyway! When I think about it now, it feels like a whole lifetime ago.. I liked that period too, cause so much new was happening at that time, but it is absolutely nothing I will share with this blog ;)

Then my FAMILY came... I was so nervous that they would not like each other. This was the first time my family had met one I had a relationship with since my Norwegian boyfriend, and that was 5 years ago.. But they loved Halil the second he came. It just said klick, and I was so happy about it, I think that is the best part of all my 7 months in Turkey.. Because you know.. When I am so long in Turkey, I miss my family like crazy, but when I am in Norway, I miss Halil like crazy. But then I had all of them in one place! I didn't miss anyone, and it felt really great. I had said for YEARS that I wanted my parents to come when I was there, but they always said they didn't have time. And suddenly they came, not only my parents, but my sisters and a couple of friends too!  I could not have asked for a better week than that.

My favorite day was without a doubt when we had a BBQ in our bedbalcony BEFORE it turned into a bedbalcony :p   When we ate, we ate mostly in restaurants, and I really wish we had taken them to some real Turkish/Kurdish restaurants instead.

Another time that was really great was when we went to Alanya in the winter. We rented a car, and we were suppose to go to Izmir, but then we changed our minds, and we went to Alanya instead. I think both of us deep down knew that it would turn out to be Alanya.. In that time we had a little rocky period, cause we were up in each other all day and all night, and neither one of us was used to that.. But we came to Alanya, and it was GREAT!  We were drunk naturally, and it was winter, so it was like a ghost town.. But first we went to this Turkish bar, like small and cozy, had a beer before we went to James Dean.
The next day, I refused to go, I really didn't want, and the next weeks I was just talking about Alanya, alanya and alanya, and he wished he never went. :p   He should, because we got a speeding ticked on our way home, that's what happens when you are driving 180 where there is 120! If that was Norway, he could have said hadi bye bye to his lisence. And he was complaining so much and said the police was lying and stuff, but I SAW how fast he was driving, so that was not a lie. And in the winter there is controls EVERYWHERE, so driving a little more slow would have been a good idea. A shitty end on a great trip. But at that time the only thing that broke my happiness was that we actually left Alanya, I hated Marmaris more than I hate baklava- and I really hate baklava.

oouuuchh it still hurts my heart, cause I miss Alanya like craaaazy.. BUT Halil refuses to stay in Alanya with me so what can I do. He lived in Alanya 9 years, then he met me, and now he doesnt wanna be there with me.. Trust much?

It was fun anyway...  

I will write more another time.. I wrote this just because I am bored and I don't really have anything better to write about.