9/30/07
Istanbul, Turkey

This morning, I awoke early, and spent the morning downing Turkish coffee and catching up on e-mail. Later, Emmett, Sinan and I went out to see some art events for Turkey's biennial celebration. The first gallery we visited was my favorite. There was this piece depicting archived photographs of people posing on chunks of icebergs on the Bosphorus from the 50s. I liked the writing about the piece too, talking about the relationship of people and nature, and looking back to a time when people were more affected by it.

Later, we wandered Isteklal, and I finally got some baklava (which I'm saving for the long train ride tomorrow). We just got back from this cute cafe, where we reminisced about our friendship over free cake from the other patrons of the cafe celebrating a birthday. Tomorrow, we leave for a 32 hour train ride to Budapest!