I finally got out of the house after 1 month of being asocial. I mean I did get out of the house but not to meet with my friends or anything else. The places I've been in the past month was : school, mom's house and dad's house. It was like torture. I felt isolated. I couldn't go out the first 2 weeks because it was the exam week and I had to study. The following 2 weeks I was at home resting, trying to recover from H1N1. I broke a personal isolation record. Today was the day I broke free. Firstly I went to my friend Gizem's place. We had tons of fun. We did a ready-set-cook show among ourselves and prepared the best lunch ever. We took some pictures of the concepts we created with poor materials. Then around 6 o'clock my dad came to pick me up with his motorbike. Dad's house is at the European side of Istanbul and Gizem's house is at the Asian side so we had to cross the Bosphorus Bridge. The sun was just setting while we cross the bridge and the view was amazing. The mesmerizing smell of the sea and the breathtaking silhouette of Istanbul was astonishing. It was a view to die for. Right after we came home we went out to eat. It was hard to find a place that I could eat anything I want (beacuse of the no-eating-insulin-raising-product diet) but we found the best place possible. We ate THE most delicious meatballs on earth and had a great time. I had time to talk to my dad about being a doctor. He told me that he doesn't want me to be a doctor but he also said that he wouldn't do anything to prevent me from being one. He told me that I'll start living my life (he means after med school is finished, when I start working) approximately 11 years after my friends do, it's hard for a woman to be a doctor (not in a discriminating way of course), at least being a surgeon and he told me the negative ways of being a doctor. If I become a doctor (an operator) I'll have to work on the weekends as well, my patients might call me anytime during the day or night, I might have to go to the hospital late at night because of an emergency etc. I already know these and I know the responsibilities of being a doctor. My dad said that most of his woman doctor friends are not happy with their jobs, they would choose another career if they could. But I'm not a quitter. I know what I want to do in the future. I want to do something I love. I don't want to be a pharmacist and try to sell medicine all day long, I don't want a desk job and sit all day long. I love biology and that's the direction I should go. I want to save people's lives no matter what. Wow. Aren't I so pumped up? :) I get this way when I want to proove something that I believe in. Anyway after dinner we walked around downtown and looked for the book I wanted to read for a while, Anthony Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange". We couldn't find it at the first place we went but they said we could find it in the music&book store at the mall right around the corner. We went there and bought the book, the movie of the book and the movie I wanted see for quite a long time "Frida". " 'Frida' chronicles the life Frida Kahlo(Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera(Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary." (http://www.iwatchfilm.com/download-movie/Frida.html). Now I'll take a break reading Pride&Prejudice and read A Clockwork Orange. It is a short book and my Turkish teacher had told me that it was a fast-reading book so I guess I'll finish it in a short time. I'm dying to see the movie but I watch the movie after reading the book it's based on first (if there is a book of course). Wasn't that a long entry? Glad you read all of it. :) That's it for today, I better start reading the book. Bye for now!
