Basically I had a very chilled weekend. On Saturday we pretty much just lounged around the Superdorm and later that night we decided to eat cheaply. So we went to Grace's house and decided to cook some pasta. It was a bang for the buck kind of night. I was the only guy though, as usual, and therefore I pretended that I was the pimp of the group. Come to think of it though a lot of Turkish males use me like a pimp which I will get to later in the post. Then we proceeded to show Borat to a German and Ukrainian student who have never seen it before. They laughed at parts and cringed during others, and at certain parts they were horrified at what they saw. I personally got embarrased by what they saw.
Many students here learn about America through the movies that they watch. For instance, a lot of men at the university have been asking me to introduce them to my female-american friends. Many of them believe that American women are very liberal/easy when it comes to sex. I constantly have to correct the record for them. The woman of Turkiye for some reason are very interested in many of the foreign male students that are going here, especially those from either America or Britain. I am also including myself here. This doesn't lead to anything though. For the most part it is curiousity which doesn't lead to anything remotely scandelous. Many turkish woman are more conservative then woman back in the states. I have come to this conclusion through many testimonials of other male students at Bogazici. However I must stress that this is one of the most Liberal schools in all of Turkiye.
Overall though, it was a nice way to celebrate Valentines Day. Unfortunately the day before, Yuki and I broke off our relationship. I feel like somewhat of an ass for doing it so close to Valentines day, but I felt like more of an ass for dragging her through it. She was very upset at me for not talking to her as much through either Skype or Facebook. This was partially my fault but everytime I try explaining what is going on here to her the conversation quickly became one sided. That is when I realized that it had to end. When you have to force a conversation with someone then you know that the relationship is going no where because you ran out of things in which you can share with each other.
Sunday was a day of preperation for classes, so I didn't do much except go out with a bunch of students from the Superdorm to a very nice restuarant. However there were 16 of us and they kept mistaking our orders with other peoples and sometimes totally misheard us and gave us the wrong thing. However our Turkish is still horrible so we weren't entirely sure what we ordered to begin with. I was the only one who was 100% sure that he was ripped off. I order spaghetti and I got a pizza. However, after waiting for my meal for a long time I decided not to complain and I ate the Turkish Pizza. Then however I got stuck paying for someone's pasta as well. Some of our dinner party left early and they didn't nearly put in enough to cover their meals. Then to top it all off, after we handed them a wad of cash they paid for our bill, they said it wasn't enough. However I counted it twice and I know it was enough for what was all ordered. They most likely slipped a bill in their pockets and ripped the foreigners out of more money. In a way we had it coming, but I am still pissed at it though.
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