Every year, a city in Turkey called Manisa has a festival celebrating their special candy. All of the exchange students went to the festival two weekends ago. On Friday night, I spent the night with one of my friends staying in Izmir, then on Saturday morning, we ended up getting our hair done and getting bubble tea, before we were on our way to Manisa! It was only about a thirty minute bus ride, and once we were in Manisa, we had lunch with a few other students, then met up with the whole group. We all just hung out the rest of the evening, then later in the night we went to a concert. Apparently the artist was like Turkey's Lady Gaga. I don't remember her name...
After the concert I went to a friend's house for the night, and we all just stayed up late talking, as we always do. We even made popcorn. On the stove! It was quite an adventure. The next morning we met up with the rest of the exchange students once again, then we walked through a parade, representing Rotary and our home lands. We sang songs, chanted "Turkiye," then we got stuck in the middle of a mosh pit where people were pushing and fighting over some free candy. The parade was nice, after the parade wasn't so nice. It was all made up for by a nice dinner at a Rotarian's cafe, and a chance to hang out and talk some more with my friends. At the time, I was kind of disappointed with the weekend because it was a bit stressful and disorganized, but now, in hindsight it wasn't too bad.
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| Everyone in the parade |
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| (Almost) All the American girls |
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| Everyone! |
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