Since I’m hoping to move out of my dorm this Monday or Tuesday, I decided to make a video last night to be able to show you where I’ve been living during the first two weeks of my stay in Istanbul. In the video I just show my floor and the floor below. The building has 7 floors, 5 study areas, an internet café, cafeteria (a crappy one), laundry shop, crappy recreation basement, big iron fences around it, security, and a few hundred men living in it.
I’m sure you’ll understand I want to move out of here as soon as possible 😉
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Ziet er mooi uit man :p Ik hoop dat je snel iets anders (beters) vinden 🙂
Yup. Probably tomorrow. They want us to move from this dorm to another dorm all the way across town (west)… and since the place where I want to live is actually east from here… I will do whatever necessary to avoid having to move twice in 2 days, especially since my belly’s still hurting and it seems to be getting slightly worse.
Tomorrow an appointment with a consult service. They’ll show me some places… If I can pay 1 month rent, deposit and the service fee immediately they will let me move in tomorrow.
Hi Baz,
I like your blog.
As you know there is always something to write about being abroad, especially if you are workikng there and mixing in with the community.
Happy blogging.
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Sorry, I didn’t answer your question.
I am in Bulgaria because I hated living in England, it’s as simple as that.
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That was one hell of a funny video… I’ve stayed in Turkish dorms before and you have captured it perfectly
Wow! You weren’t kidding. I didn’t think it was that bad compared to what I’ve got in Taiwan.
Get out of there. Fast!
Well, now I’ve got 3 smoking Turkish roommates. 😉
Oh my poor boy, move !
No doubt this was planned by a prisons architect !
(I like your blogging)
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Why call it a prison? It looks like a nice and cousy place to me. Only the shitting toilets don’t look so comfartable.
[…] While crouching, right in front of you (usually at wall on the right) you will find not toilet paper, but a tap and small bucket at a convenient height. Yep… this is used to wash your ass. With your bare hand, yes. Now you can avoid these toilets if you’re staying in a hotel and can hold it up for a while… but at the dormitories where I was living, I had no choice… Well, either go to a European toilet that was covered in feces, or get to crouching. You can see what I’m talking about in my previous post “Turkish Prison“. […]