Being Annie

I was able to travel to Izmir for Thanksgiving dinner with my fellow exchange students during the weekend after Thanksgiving.  We spent the ...

Alrighty, so my last blog got a virus, so I'm now here at being-annie.blogspot.com. Beingannie.com should just redirect to here at so...

10 th November is the day that the Turks mourn the death and remember the life if Atat ü rk, their national hero. I was up early to go w...

Happy Halloween! Except, Halloween has no importance here. BOO! (See what I did there? Yaa, it's a good thing I can easily make myse...

My host sister works as a flight attendant in Istanbul, so we spent the weekend of Bayram in Istanbul with her because she wasn't able...

29 th October is Turkish Republic Day, which is basically their equivalent of the 4 th of July in America. They aren't exactly the ...

A couple of weeks ago was the Islamic holiday of sacrifices. The story that I read on Facebook about Bayram (the holiday's name) was ...

On October 18 th , I took the bus to Izmir in order to meet up with the other exchange students and go on our first trip together to Capad...

I think if you were to ask an exchange student what the best part of their exchange year was, it would probably be an event that involved ...

I've finally been able to get into a routine after being here for a month and a half, and I go to school everyday from 8:50am-5pm and ...