Things I will miss about Istanbul:
1. The breeze that comes off the Boğaz (Bosphorus)
2. My friends
3. Random adventures, even if they don't turn out so well (ahem, city walls)
4. Istiklal Caddesi and its many sidestreets
5. Walking arm in arm along above mentioned streets
6. Functioning public transportation
7. Counting ships that pass thru the Boğaz
8. Çay
9. Simit
10. Peynirli sigara böreği
11. Islak hamburgers
12. Dürümzade
13. Dondurmacıs who play tricks on people
14. Efes Pilsen (I will buy a 12 pack if I ever find it in Spec's)
15. Stray animals, especially having cats in the classroom
16. Amusing translations into English (I have seen #9 translated as cigarette pastry with cheese)
17. Breakfast menus that just list "breakfast" and a price
18. Fresh squeezed orange juice
19. Fruits and veggies from the Rumeli hisarüstü pazar
20. Kissing on both cheeks as a greeting
21. The guys who try to convince drunks that a bunny can tell their fortune
22. Feeling no guilt about laying on the south campus lawn all day
23. Drinking beers on south campus overlooking the Bosphorus
24. Friends dancing around trees to traditional songs
25. Students with accordions and fiddles who play traditional Turkish songs as well as "Oh, Susana (Don't You Cry for Me)" by the economics building in the middle of the night
26. Turkish waffles (covered in nutella, fresh fruit, nuts, folded in half and eaten like a sandwich)
27. Classes with 15 minute breaks every hour because both the prof and the students need çay and a cigarette.
28. The following as common snacks: grilled corn, dried apricots, roasted chestnuts, almonds, chickpeas, pumpkin seeds, white grape raisins
29. Araf, Jazz Stop, Babylon, 360, Machine, The Secret Garden
30. Beyti Sarma at Urfam
31. Finding portraits, busts and statues of Mustafa Kemal Atutürk ABSOLUTELY EVERYWHERE
32. Watching the sunrise over the Bosphorus from south campus
Things I will not miss about Istanbul:
1. Creepers on the metro who stand too close to me
2. People who don't wear deodorant
3. Having to keep buying more and more kontör for my phone
4. The way a crowded bus smells in the summer
5. Random places not having A/C
6. Shopkeepers in Ottoman Disneyworld (Sultanahmet/Grand Bazaar/Spice Bazaar)
7. #6 cont'd: "Lady, you dropped something... my heart."
8. #6 cont'd: "Please, let me help you spend your money"
9. #6 cont'd: "You so beautiful. For you, everything in my shop free."
10. Guys in a club who can't take a hint
11. The general lack of limes
12. Lemons with tequila shots
13. People, places and class operating on "Turkish time" (x1.5)
14. Sweatpants as a fashion statement
15. Having to buy bottled water
16. Guys who don't understand that I don't want to go into their club
17. Paving stones that aren't mortared into the ground and splash me
18. Guys who think it looks good to spike the hair on the crown of their heads and push everything else forward, while leaving a mullet in the back.
19. The moment of panic: "We're on a bridge. Why are we on a bridge?"
More will be added to these lists before the night is through.
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