It's snowing now and everywhere seems white already! I was feeling a bit blue lately, cause of my knee and the cancellation of me and dad's Chamonix trip. Snow is what exactly what I needed. It made forgot about all my tinsy winsy troubles and the exams are over, I'm in the holiday mood already.

Mom and I made plans for the night. We're going to ly on our cosy couch, curl under cosy blankets, drink salep, eat chestnuts and watch the snow take over Istanbul.

tell me tell me tell me

when will i learn

i love it and i leave it and i let it burn

damn these wild young hears

photo by Aihibed Magana

They say sports is good for the body...

Head-on Alpine GS Ski Racing
Originally uploaded by nickphotos

Hey, I know I haven't been writing for a while... I'm not in the mood for blogging. Although I couldn't compete at the races, I had tons of fun at Uludağ. I wish we were much more crowded, just like last year. Except m injury, which turned out to be something really serious, everything was perfect. My doctors said that it will take some time until I get completely well, so dad and I cancelled our skiing trip to Chamonix. Now I'm wearing a strange protection on my left leg. People call me Robotix. :) I'm not offended at all, cause if I don't put it on I will need surgery and I won't be able to ski...

It will be a picture of me next year, just like that one, count on that.

Highlights

Highlights of the past 8 days:
I went to Rome on 31st of December.
It was too rainy, I got completely soaked.
I looked like I had drowned when we entered 2010. It's going to be a wet wet year.
Now I'm at Uludağ for the skiing contest. There isn't much snow to ski.
I fell during the contest and I hurt my left knee. Now I can't ski, I won't be able to compete tomorrow. I really really really wanted to join the national team this year ...

I stayed after school today to finish my English short movie project. I told mom to pick me up at 5.30 p.m. but we were done by 4 p.m. I had my friend's Nikon D90 so I took pictures until mom came. I realized that my school is the perfect place to take photos. The views are amazing. Here are some of the photos I took today, hope you like them. Fortunately they are better than the ones I took yesterday. (what a cold teeny paragraph. I'm really tired right now and I can't do any better than this. I promise the upcoming ones will be much more sincere)

5.15 a.m. -Mark Knopfler

I can't believe I woke up at 3.18 a.m. Lately I've been having troubles going to bed early. However it was 6.43 p.m. when I fell asleep. (I have clock right next to my bed and when I last checked the time it was 6.43 ) I was so sleepy I forgot to get into my PJs. I fell asleep with my school uniform on.

Yesterday was a bitter-sweet day. The only interesting thing we did was to dissect a sheep's and a turkey's heart during biology. It was my first surgical experience, it was an amateur one of course. I was so excited mom told me that my eyes got bigger when I talked about it.

Other than that, I felt useless today cause all the pictures I took during photography sucked. I couldn't get one of them right. The rest of the day was an ordinary Tuesday. Now I have to finish the homework that was do today while listening to 5.15 a.m. - Mark Knopfler. Arrivederci!

photography madness

f.y.i. the heart dissection photos are taken by Beliz Malkoçlar. Thanks Beliz!

Mom Will Be So Mad

It is 2 a.m. and no matter what I do I can't sleep. If mom sees me awake, she will immediately start a minor chaos. I woke up at 12.30 today that's what made me toss and turn in my bed since 11.30 p.m. Instead of tossing and turning I decided to update my blog. So hear is how this entry goes:

I watched Across the Universe and My Blueberry Nights this weekend. I enjoyed them both. I realized that even though I watch movies quite a lot, I haven't watched most of the indispensables of the cinema history. For example, The Godfather. (I'm dying to see it and I will as soon as possible) So I made myself a to-watch list. It is still not completed but I will write them all once it is finished.

I want to watch one of the movies right now but then I'll have to go to bed at least at 4 a.m. but I can't make through a Monday with just 2 hours of sleep. Plus, I have a geography quiz tomorrow, which I haven't studied just a bit. Don't get me wrong, I didn't just slouch this weekend instead of studying geography. I solved some extra math questions and studied some extra physics. I was just not in the mood for geography, I never am. But I shouldn't worry at all. My friends can help me study tomorrow just before the quiz. That's what friends are for.

I really really really have to try sleeping right now. I'll look like a corpse-geography-victim who has huge purple bags under her eyes tomorrow if I don't. Arrivederci, sweet dreams!