This is a really remarkable city. It feels very safe and the area I’m in is really walkable. Like I mentioned, I wasn’t able to sleep well on the plane so I took a power nap this afternoon. It’s a little after 9 pm here now. I’m eating dinner. I had forgotten it was valentine’s day or I probably would have avoided the kind of nice sit down restaurant. Oh well. I don’t think I’ll have a problem falling asleep
tonight, early, and being on Istanbul time going forward. I’m exhausted right now.

I’m so glad I decided to come. Seriously, this was the best decision of my life. This is exactly how I want to live going forward – not tied down to any specific place for any reason. Able to travel wherever I want, whenever I want, and on a moments notice. I do realize I’ll have to figure out a way to afford to live like this – it’s clearly unsustainable with my current financial situation, but being here definitely gives me something to aspire to.

So I’m really good at this sketch comedy writing. I definitely need to work, to improve, but the ideas I come up with are very clever and creative. I think if I work hard at making something happen I could somehow turn this into a career. My plan at this point is to create a tumblr account and post all of the sketches I write for class to that account. They are mostly in a first draft/rough draft form because we
aren’t spending time editing them, but I figure if I post them all to a tumblr account it will at least show my creativity and potential. The rest of it – the polishing end of the writing – will fall into place. I’ll send you a link when I have it set up so you can read what I’ve written. I had the best idea for a sketch on the plane based on a conversation I had with D, the other roommate. I should warn you everything I write is probably going to be incredibly dark. I don’t have a lot of faith in mankind.

Here are a few pictures I took today and tonight. You guys should totally come check this place out if you ever get the opportunity. It’s very cool and affordable to travel here.