a piece of bosphorus

This is what I see everyday when I take a smoking break at work... A nice refreshment...

Music, dance & friends

At the beginning of the summer I had a call from my cousin Duygu and she invited me to watch their dance show. I couldn't pass this opportunity, so I joined them before the show and took some photos during the show, not only theirs but all...

It was a show of the dance school of Tan Sağtürk who is a wellknown dancer in Turkey (and europe I think). There are a lot of dance students from all ages (4-60!) and it was really nice to watch them.

I had visitors from Tunisia

A few weeks ago I had guests from Tunisia. Bukola & Leandro...


Bukola is an old friend from couchsurfing, he fell in love with Istanbul and is a repeat customer now ;)




Leandro is a collegue of Bukola, he is Porteguese which means I liked him at first sight :)



They came to Istanbul because of a wedding party of their collegue's daughter, thanks to her...








I took Bukola to my tango class as always I do to all of my friends... He helped himself when I was sweating with dance and he got a gift from this gorgeus girl, Sırma :) As you can see he is very happy with the gift on his wrist ;)

I am happy to have them around again too... I already miss his witty sense of humour :)))

sunday class

I recently started to a tango class at Taksim. The name of the course is Tangojean. It means you can dance by jean ;) It is like a therapy, beautiful music, dance... I loved it.

I had a visitor at tango class on sunday. My beautiful niece Hasal came to watch my dance -after 3 lessons!- and she enjoyed to being there with me... Nice... I have some photos of her for you today.

Happy Mondays...

happy birthday Nilu

Nilüfer & me

Nilüfer & Buket

Nilüfer the birthday girl

Nilüfer

Nilüfer is a good friend from my old work place. Today is her birthday but Buket (another friend from work) and I decided to celebrate it earlier. I invited them to my flat and we made a surprise to Nilüfer. I took some photos of her - she gives good photos- but I wasn't in my best day :( Photos are not good enough...

Happy birthday dear Nilüfer...

rebel...

The way of love is not

a subtle argument.

The door there

is devastation.

Birds make great sky-circles

of their freedom.

How do they learn that?

They fall, and falling,

they are given wings.

Rumi

freedom is making choises

and sometimes it means "fly away"...