Some people are damn good with words!  You experience similar things, but they happen to have the knack for interpreting your feelings when your words would fall short. Özge Samancı is one of those people gifted with story telling. I could...
 Some people are damn good with words!  You experience similar things, but they happen to have the knack for interpreting your feelings when your words would fall short. Özge Samancı is one of those people gifted with story telling. I could...
Çağla Öztek, my fellow classmate at the university while I was studying Tour Guidance, is now my fellow tour guide. I got hold of this article when I was supposed to take a print-out and submit it to one of our lecturers on behalf of her. Being...
 MY TEACHER SELF VS MY STUDENT SELFFor teachers, the start of the year is not January, rather September, when the schools open. I am back to school, yet as a student this time. Apart from being stripped off the title I have earned in earnest over a decade,...
 "Does it ever snow in Istanbul?" "How cold does it get?" ask often the visitors to the city. With such a temperate climate, one is surprised to hear Istanbul has its share of snow every year like many other cities on the latitude of 40, but only for a few days:)...
 CEREMONY AT SAINT-BENOITI am at one of the oldest educational institutions in the city, Saint-Benoit. Two of my beloved students are graduating today.  SB ranks one of the distinguished foreign schools, whose medium of instruction is French. As might...