I've been waiting to post this blog for a while and I guess today's the day. I've mentioned before that there's some interesting noises in Eskisehir so I'm going to share what this stuff sounds like!
5 Prayers a Day
This prayer isn't specifically from Eskisehir but it sounds similar. Prayers like this are played 5 times a day. I don't really mind them but I guess the guys one the other side of the hall sometimes get annoyed by it because their window must directly face the speakers from whichever mosque it's coming from and the first one is announced at about 4 a.m. or so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2JsQnvs3rc&feature=fvst
The Water Truck
I guess there's one water truck that passes through Eskisehir every day and only has one route so it plays a song while it's moving to let people know that the time to buy water is coming up. I use to be very annoyed by this song and I remember my first Sunday morning here I was super confused why this annoying song was playing so often and so loud so early in the morning but now I actually don't mind it too much. It sucks when it's stuck in my head but I'm kind of thinking of setting it as my ringtone when I get back home haha This video is missing about 5 seconds of the whole song but you get the idea. If the truck's driving for a while it'll be repeated over and over until the truck stops.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeJ1oR5stVg&feature=related
Airplanes
There's an air force base near by and I guess every once in a while they'll fly out and go where ever they have to go but they fly really low to the ground so that sometimes it's so loud there's no way you can talk to your friend who is sitting right next to you. Also not too fun to wake up to in the morning. This video doesn't quite show how loud it actually gets but you get the idea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac94dlKRQXI
A Popular Pop Song in Europe
We first found out about this song at Del Mundo a couple weeks ago when a bunch of drunk Norwegians heard this song and started standing on their chairs and dancing and loving this song. Ever since I've heard this song a bunch and its played at least 4-5 times every night at the carnival place that's pretty much just outside my window. I don't think I've mentioned this carnival place yet but it's open every night, plays a bunch of popular songs and you can here many people giggling. I haven't been there yet but one of these days I'll check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8P2pZBJvqw
Sudden Stops of CarsIt's not exactly this bad where cars will spin slightly when they stop but as I mentioned before the Turkish people drive very aggressively here. So every once in a while you can hear cars skreetch because they run into a sticky situation but surprisingly I still haven't witnessed a car accident.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJoicgKy1Xw
IN OTHER NEWS
A friend from my transportation class, Hakan, met up with Ross, Mike, and I earlier this evening to have some baklava and ice cream because I mentioned that I've never had it before and it was delicious. We bought 1 kg of baklava and a bunch of vanilla ice cream and had to put the ice cream on top, let it sit for about five minutes or so to let the ice cream melt for a bit and then ate it and it was very sweet and very good. Baklava is a unique dessert to Turkey and I'd recommend anyone to try it when in Turkey and is very sweet and very good! We also had one piece of another type of dessert similar to baklava because it was also flaky but was even more sweet and also had a strong pistachio taste which I loved. I mentioned to Hakan that back at home pistachios are rare for me because they're so expensive but I love them when I have them and he said that in his home town pistachio trees always pop up by the wind and they're actually a hassle to them because they have to many. I kind of which I had this problem.
And when we were at Hakan's place eating the baklava we met a couple friends of his and discussed American vs. Turkish culture and whatever else and then one of his friends invited us to a Turkish wedding tomorrow at 8 pm! It's her dad's friend's (daughter's?) wedding and I guess the bride has a lot of family in the area but the groom doesn't so we're invited with Hakan's friends and we'll be learning some traditional Turkish dancing. I'm so excited!!!
I'll be sure to keep you posted as to how it goes and we leave for Olympos on Thursday night which I'm really excited about because it's going to be absolutely beautiful! But now it's time to finish two problems for my hydrology homework that I should've finished before writing this blog entry.
Iyi Geceler! (EE geh-jeh-ler)
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