Arrival in Ankara

GOOD MORNING ANKARA!! After more than 15 hours of traveling (which felt closer to 25), my group sleepily arrived in Ankara's airport. Luckily for me, the two flights over here were some of the easiest international flights I've had. I took a sleeping pillfor the first plane, which worked like a charm! The only downside was I worried the entire airplane that I had died because I wouldn't wake up during dinner. One of my friends started to shake me to try to wake me up...to no avail. So apparently I had an interesting flight and I didn't know it! Next up was an extremely long wait in the Istanbul airport, which was only made fun by playing hide and seek with Ali, a Turkish boy waiting to get on our flight. The flight to Ankara was a lot less eventful. We waited on the Tarmac for half an hour without air conditioning, and I fell asleep right after the plane took off. When I woke up, and saw the ground right 

below us, I thought I had dozed off for just a few minutes. But it turns out I was out for the entire flight. Ankara was a bit strange; the airport and suburbs were spotless and brand new, with colorful cookie cutter apartments, and marble walls. Deep inside the city, however, is more of the turkey I expected. The streets are jumbled with bike and car stors overflowing into the street. It also has a lot of shady storefronts and street food that point out we're definitely in Asia. I'm not sure of the schedule for the next 

two days; although I think it's going to be pretty busy in the second largest city in turkey. I'll get back to you sometime after leaving the capital!! To all my readers: gule gule!!