Another couple of weeks have come and gone and well it has been just plain cold. Take a look at some of pictures below and you shall see some of the wintery nights we have had. Nothing new to report about the situation on the hill, in Turkey, or the general debauchery known as management. So basically I am as pessimistic as ever ^_^. I have some lovely choice words but I think this time around I will refrain myself. Hopefully in the next couple of days I can put up some in town craziness.

Ranting

It's been a while. I'm terrible at this blogging thing. I do not have to much to report. The varsity crew and myself are just trying to survive. So basically whenever something stupid happens which is often mind you. This magical song plays in my head. I do want to warn everyone this has extreme explicit language. So for now this is the the themes song. Here are some fun pictures up on the hill because snow is awesome. Here are some pictures of my new room, view from my new room, jumping around in the snow and various morning pictures. The most important thing is snow of course ^_^! Hopefully one of these weekends I will find something a little more exciting to do. So to start off here is my new room larger than before and a better room set up. I'm glad I moved into it, the setup is nicer and the room is larger. So here are some pictures.

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Finally, I have some pictures of Ivan, Daniel, and I messing around in the snow. Now remember kids don't try this at home. There was about three feet of snow and most of it was powder. It is pretty cool.

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Forgot to mention on the last set of pictures If you click view all on the lower right of the picture frame you can see the videos two. There is a few videos of us being silly. Snow makes you do fun stuff.

I've promised some sunrise photographs and here they are. The weather has finally been clear up on the hill so I took the liberty of snapping away. I also grilled some chicken for lunch/breakfast. Nothing really to update about here other than these photographs were taking before the new years. So this will be my last post of 2011. I guess it is technically 2012 here in Turkey already.

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Another not so weekly update. I digress, so first Christmas spent in another country w00t. I go to meet some new people that are pretty swell. So big shout out to Edward and Linda for inviting me out Christmas day. I would like to back up to Christmas eve when I actually meet the two. I get a call from Jesus, he says come on down we are doing power hour make a playlist. I'm confuse because I have no clue what power hour is. Well... power hour is drinking shooters of beer every minute. The music will change every minute. Thank goodness we only had enough beer to make it to the half an hour mark because well I am just not as young as I once was. It was harder then I thought any ways. Then on to Christmas. Edward, Jesus, Linda, and I spend Christmas in Darende. Beautiful little town much cleaner then and much more homey than where I am currently residing. No, you may not ask where I am residing. So there is a lot to see in Darende, we decided to do a little hike and have some grub. The weather was a not the greatest but it held out because it looked like rain all afternoon. I took lots of photos from the hike. The hike was through a canyon. I also found out you can raft through there so guess what I will be checking out over the summer. There are also several other attractions that I will want to venture out and check. One of the side passages we explored smelled like sulfur which confirmed our suspicions that there mike be some volcanic activity. There is a picture of me standing on water to be added later. I checked out the temperature of that water because I saw some steam rising off of it and sure enough it was fairly warm. Come to find out later that there is some some swimming locations set up and the water temperature is a nice and calming 22C. I'll have to go check that out later. Once we finished the hike we went and ate Hasbache Restaurant. They had the most amazing food there for very inexpensive the four of us ate there with two sodas for 32tl which is about 18/19USD. I will post the picture up when I get off tomorrow afternoon. I hope everyone had an enjoyable Christmas.

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Here are some of the pictures of "work". Since I can't really show you what I am doing here is some random fun at work. I'll start with the one day we have to get "escorted" to and from work. I found it amusing more than anything else. In the morning we had to caravan to work. here are some of those pictures.

Next is the pictures of us working. Here is why I get paid the "big" bucks.

And here is the final ride home. Rated pg-13 for language hahah

These are some of the sites pictures that I have been promising. These are the beautiful sites I get to see in the morning after a long day of work. I worked my first week of 4 on and 3 off this week. I wanted to explore a bit this weekend but I am feeling a little bit ill because of a co-workers in ability to keep his germs to himself. So I find my self relaxing and reading at the hotel this weekend. At least that is my current plan. If I am feeling less ill I will go out and take pictures in the town. I am also trying to figure out what I want to do for the new years this year. I am going to try and be out in the town for whatever they have planned. I really wanted to be in Bucharest or Bucharest or Ankara but it looks like having only flights in and out of this town per day is a pain in the butt for scheduling. I am sure I will have it figured out a the begining of next year but for now I plan on sitting tight.

Sorry for the sloppy page layout, I'm still trying to figure this thing out.

This is one of my favorite pictures because of the colors from the sunrise reflecting off the clouds and then the brilliance of the moon shining up top.









The next six pictures is of the sun rising through the clouds

 

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Up close and personal!

The beginning of a beautiful day ended just as it started.

Okay, so I didn't quite make my regularly scheduled weekly blog  my bad. I had  a very tough week last week. I worked an astounding 77 hours last week. To say the least work was/is a bit hectic. I am now working form 0000-1230 four on and three off. I am excited to start this shift at the same time not so much. Today will be my first day starting this shift and I can't sleep. Changing schedules so abruptly is ruining my sleep cycle. One interesting thing that happened last week is that the Turkish government was concerned for our safety (due to protesters... that weren't there) and we were supposed to caravan to work with military support but we didn't. We ended up not seeing them and drove to work in our seven vehicle caravan. It isn't as exciting is you would think. On the way down we did have some escorts, unfortunately they drive the speed limit which does not exceed 70 km/h. That is really crappy because well we normally travel at the speed of 120 km/h. That just meant it took forever to get down the hill. One bit of exciting news is that we can now get packages and not just letters. That makes me happy, I can now amazon it up hahah. Something like that anyways but probably not to much. Later tonight I will post a video and some more pictures of the site. I hope to get some pictures out in town this weekend. I am thinking about going to Bucharest for for the new years.  We shall see. Today/tomorrow I will get to see my first sunrise on the hill. I'll put up some interesting pictures of the hard earned government money too.