Back from Hatay and Antep

Hello!
We were on a 4 day field trip with the entire class.
It was pretty fun, but very tiring too.
I don't really know what to talk about.
In Antakya (Hatay) we went to 3 churches, one camii, a mosaic museum (lots of mythology!) and Uzunçarşı (a long market leading to other markets and streets).
In Gaziantep we went to a museum, the Zeugma mosaic museum, a castle, and another market.
Yay.

"You are sweating like a human, brother. Next it will be tears."

--Hades to Zeus (Wrath of the Titans)

Am I blogging too much lately?

I finally got to watch the Wrath of the Titans. The day it came out, we were in the cinema to watch the Hunger Games, so I couldn't see it. I was in Istanbul the next week, and last week my cousin had a party at the time I was supposed to watch it. This week I had plans of going to the movies on Friday, but they stopped showing the movie. I had given up all hope until my mom said "They're showing it at Cepa at 20:50"
I watched it with my dad which was a little awkward and not that fun, because it was last minute arrangement and I didn't think any of my friends could come (although I did see a friend at Cepa but he said he couldn't watch the movie).

The movie? I was really excited about it. It was about Perseus, after all.
And I think it was a great success after the disaster of the Clash of the Titans. I remember leaving the cinema after watching the Clash of the Titans with some friends: I was ranting about how they had destroyed the myth. And I don't think the Wrath of the Titans was really following any myth at all, but it was great.
In the movie, the gods were losing power because no one prayed to them anymore, and all sorts of monsters were escaping Tartarus. Zeus appeared in Perseus' house and asked for his help, but Percy sent him away, saying he couldn't leave his son. Zeus later on met up with Poseidon and Ares in the Underworld, and soon they realized that Hades and Ares had turned against them and were planning to bring Kronos out of Tartarus by draining Zeus' power.
Short summary:
Poseidon died, Perseus went on a quest and found Agenor the son of Poseidon and Andromeda, they found Hephaestus and a mechanic owl (Athena in disguise?) who led them to a secret labyrinth which led to the heart of Tartarus, a stupid soldier prayed to Ares who came and killed half of them and Hephaestus, Perseus Agenor and Andy made it through the labyrinth and found Zeus, they freed him and ran away while Ares was trying to kill them all, Kronos was released, Perseus fought Ares (and he should have died at least 20 times in that battle, I mean, Ares made marble columns collapse by showing Perseus into them!) and killed him, he made a weapon to kill Kronos by putting together the Big Three's weapons, he flew on Pegasus and down Kronos' mouth, Kronos exploded, somehow Percy survived, Zeus died, Hades became mortal, yup.

There were some scenes that I still see in my mind. One of them was a scene in the beginning: the ground cracked and the camera when down the crack, backwards first, then turning right down. Since it was in 3D I actually closed my eyes because I thought rocks were falling on me... Nice effects.
I loved the awkward brotherly relationship between Hades and Zeus.
I liked their interpretation of the Chimera too!
And cyclopses. Definitely cyclopses.

But Perseus should have died. Seriously. Being a demigod doesn't make you invulnerable—except in the case of Achilles. And he had a lot of luck. I also think there were some scenes which could be improved.

Oh well, although all the gods died and it was not logical, I still liked the movie.

Blogger, why?

Why did you change?
Do my paragraphs work now? I hope they do.

Anyway, my friend Levent went through the entire first chapter and edited and changed it, and I changed my version slightly by looking at his. Now I think it's much better. Thank you so much, for going through all that for me.
At some parts, I was looking for a certain word and couldn't find it, but Levent just replaced my simple words with the exact word I was looking for.
Now I wonder how I can share it with people. If anybody wants to read it, I can mail it to them. Maybe I could have a blog just for the story? Now that I've written this much, I want to continue it. And I did end the chapter in a cliffhanger, so I want to continue even more. But not today, tomorrow?

I also need a name for their planet. That's a very hard choice.

Since most planets are named after gods and goddesses, I could name my after their goddess too, but that sounds weird in my ears. Hmm...
I also want to make a big family tree for the main-er characters. It will be huge, since it's a planet I'm writing about.
Ahh, currently this is all I care about. That's not a good thing. Well actually I have nothing else to do...

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I'm rather upset Emre memorized Antony's speech before I did. I was reciting the lines to my mom and she was staring at me like I was an alien. Then I explained what the lines meant, and she acted like she cared, but she really didn't. Oh well, I guess.
I'm very excited about next week!
My Monday will be fun, my Tuesday will be hard, and then we're going off on the 9th grade trip. I'm staying with Eda and Irmak, so it'll be quiet and peaceful.
I'm also looking forward to reading Julius Caesar. It's very fun in class, and I understand more than I would on my own. I'm just really bothered by how some people always have their digital devices in front of them and appear to not care.
Last year when we were learning mythology, my hand was constantly raised and I was always interested in class while some others hated mythology.
People have different interests, but why bash something you don't like when other people like it? If we were all understanding, maybe the world wouldn't be so horrible.
What am I saying?

I want to ink something with the pen Ekin got me, and I think I want to do it in comic book style, so is there any superhero anyone wants me to draw?

Inspiration Motivation

Blogger changed. I hate the new look. Gmail changed too. I hate that too. I'm not a person who likes change. This new blogger is absolutely horrible. At least they should have given me the option of not switching. Anyway, Ezgi and I went to Starbucks yesterday. We had a 4 day holiday, we had to enjoy it. The still don't have Chai Tea Latte. Every time I go there, they never have it, so I have to get other drinks. That's not the point though. We walked, sat, and chatted for about 1 and a half hours. Before going back home, we made a deal. We were to write something—anything—and mail it to each other at the end of the day. If we didn't do this, we'd punish each other somehow. I got home very excited, and I sat in front of my computer. First, I sent Ezgi the first chapter of a story I had written earlier (it was about the son of two demigods, and I thought I did a good job with the 6 chapters I wrote...). Then I read those 6 chapters, and reading something I had written made me want to write more. So I opened my file titled "Kael's Story", read over it, and my hands flew. I lost track of time. I only stopped writing for things like toilet needs and dinner, but otherwise I was crouched over my computer. I had 1580 words when I started writing, I have 3264 now. I finished the first chapter, and I didn't read it through yet, but I finished it, and this gives me this beautiful sense of satisfaction and pride. I mailed it to Ezgi (my advisor) and Levent (my editor) and I've been waiting for replies from them all morning. Oh and not only did I write, I finished the Clockwork Angel. I went to bed around midnight, and I enjoyed every second of my evening. I don't like Clockwork Angel that much. I like the characters, but it's plot was slow and not much happened. But I must say, it really surprised me in the end. I didn't expect it. Yay! edit: Blogger doesn't seem to know the purpose of the ENTER button. Where are all my paragraphs??

Dali

Hi!
As most people know we went to Cermodern today as the 9th grade.
I don't have time to say much, but the trip was very fun and exciting. I'm a fan of Salvador Dali.
When we came back we wrote a poem inspired by our trip and Dante's Inferno.
Here's mine: (I didn't read it in class because I'm rather shy when it comes to sharing my work in front of the whole class)

Midway in our school's journey, I went astray
from the school schedule and woke to find myself
in Cermodern, oh yay! How shall I say

What Cermodern that was! How excited
I was! I expected to see Dali's flies,
soon and I realized and was enlightened

that we were in the depths of hell instead.
No flies flew as we journeyed up the pit
through purgatory to heaven's cloudy bed.

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I like rhyming poetry.

Demon Pox

Demon pox is apparently an illness, and my favorite character from Clockwork Angel—Will the bipolar, rude, arrogant 17 year old—is obsessed with it. He mentions demon pox every time the conversation is about illnesses. I find it amusing.
Will is awesome. But weird too. I thought the author was accidentally mixing him with Jace (the male antagonist of the Mortal Instruments) but then the main character (Tessa) uttered my concern, so the author is doing it on purpose? Okay...

I was kind of pouring my heart out but decided not to post that here. I saved it on another file on my computer, though.

In Literature class we had to complete a story given as an exam. That day I was rather emotional, and the piece I wrote was a reflection of my emotions. I thought it was rather depressing. But it helped me. It helped me a lot. I faced myself and realized things. Now I know my flaws. And getting a 90% doesn't hurt either.
See the magic writing can do?

I didn't get my bottom braces—still. But the dentist did tighten the top ones, so its rather painful. Oh well, better than one week of soup.

I remember years back, when I was smaller, we went to some place in the coast of Turkey for holiday with my childhood friends and their families. The hotel rooms were in small houses built on ancient Roman architecture. Every building was named after an important Roman, and the only ones I remember now are Julius, Augustus, and of course, Brutus. That's my earliest memory of Brutus. My father told me about how he betrayed Caesar. And ever since then I've liked Brutus. He's just seemed cool to me.
In the play, Julius Caesar, I liked him still. I thought he was awesome. But after watching the movie I'm trying to hold on to my appreciation of the character...don't let it go, Begüm! No, look! Here comes Antony, don't let him pull Brutus down! Noo go away Antony, I've liked Brutus for years!
I don't know if it's the always worried look on the actors face or just the stupid choices he makes, but...I don't like him as much anymore.

I decided to memorize Antony's speech next to Caesar's corpse. I just like it too much.
I also love Brutus' 'let us be sacrificers, not butchers' speech too.
"Let us carve a dish fit for the gods, not hew a carcass fit for the hounds!"

One of my friends looks like Kael (main character of my book). I was extremely excited when I realized this and Señora Berna got mad at me.
At least I found a reference.

Yayyy I did absolutely no homework todayy!

Yay

Hello!

I won't be on the computer much because I have loads of stuff to do and I need to study.
But here's a blog entry before I do anything else.

My cousin had a birthday party yesterday, and when buying his gift on Saturday I got to visit Arkadaş Kitapevi. I directly walked to my little corner of 'fantasy books' only to see that the order of the books had been changed. So I walked around until I found the new location of the shelves. They had books I always see there, but they had the Mortal Instruments series too. I started reading the series last year and read the latest book 1-2 days after it came out (I got it in New York) last Spring. The newest book is coming out soon and I'm pretty excited about it.
The series is about these warriors called Shadowhunters who hunt down demons. They're somehow related to angels, and they carry swords which shine when their names are shouted. The story takes place in NY and includes awesome werewolves, vampires, warlocks and faeries.
I like the concept and the idea. At first I hated the main character and loved this guy called Jace but as the books continued this opinion was flipped upside down.
Honestly, the books are frustrating, devastating, and make you think "This is just so awkward, why am I still reading it?"
Why did I read it? Because I wanted to know what was going to happen. Because I liked the concept.
Anyway to the point, there's this other series by the same author called the Infernal Devices. It takes place 2 centuries before the Mortal Instruments. I saw the first two books of this series in the bookshop, and I decided to buy the first one.
I've only read up to the 50th page so far because I'v awfully busy, but I like it so far. The only problem I have with the book is the fact that the main two characters (Tessa and William) remind me of the main characters of the Mortal Instruments (Clary and Jace). Oh well.
Müfit says the book is terrible.
I don't know if he's just being destructive or if the book actually is terrible...yet...

Another thing I want to talk about is this dream I had this weekend. I saw two, one was about me being this expert fisher but I want to explain the other one. This one was on a huge cruise boat, but everything was older. The first thing I thought of? Steampunk.
I saw a family: a tall father with dark hair, a teenage sister, and a little brother. The one who stuck to my mind was the brother. He was around 8 years old. He wore a white shirt and a jacket and boots, but most importantly, white gloves. The father and the sister lost the boy on the ship, and they found him in this cafe sitting with a creepy old lady. The lady pulled off the kids right glove, revealing his steampunk prosthetic hand. It was actually pretty cool. But then the lady started talking about the kid using his talent and stuff and the kid got frustrated and ran off. The sister followed him. She found herself on a sidewalk by a bridge (wait, what happened to the ship?). Then she had her little adventures. But the kid was so vivid. I can still see him staring at me with his childish anger.

Yay English class tomorrow! More Julius Caesar!
This deserves an emoticon. ^_^

I like Foster the People. Yup.

That's it for today.

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I'm having such a terrible week.
I'm trying to stay happy.
My problems are a grain of sand compared to other peoples deserts.
That should cheer me up.
I have to force it.

"House come to order!"

Hi!
I was writing an entry about our trip to Istanbul but since Ezgi summarized our first day on her blog, and I don't want to explain every day, so I'll just talk about certain occasions.
My first time at our committee was quiet and exciting for me. I was in the Environment Committee (EC), made of about 75 delegates. We were supposed to be in a hall named the Bubble but since our opening dinner was going to be there, we were packed in a small hall. I was representing Germany. Next to me was a girl (Georgia) and a guy from Palestine (Ghana). Our chairs were named Paulina, Joy, and Gürcan. Paulina's eyes closed when she smiled and Joy reminded me of a stereotypical German girl but with ginger hair. Gürcan had a red nose. That's my first thoughts about them.
We did icebreakers, which are basically little games to break the ice between the delegates. We did one where we all wrote a question and put it in a box where everyone one by one picked one and answered it. I asked "If you were famous, what would you be famous for?" I think it's a more interesting question than "How many siblings do you have?"
The girl who answered it said "Swimming." See? If there are any swimmers in the house they might go chat with her about it and new friendships made!
I picked the question "Who let the dogs out?"
Our second icebreaker was a cliche: 2 truths 1 lie. The chair picked a delegate to tell the truths and lie and another delegate to guess which one was the lie.
My sentences were:
I love drawing.
I'm a tumblr addict.
I love pasta so much I spent 4 days in Italy eating it.

I'm sure everyone here knows which one is a lie, but the guy who was guessing said "The first one!"
This of course shocked me, and that day they all learnt something they would discover throughout the conference: the delegate of Germany likes drawing.

That's pretty much it about the first day. I mean, Ezgi's said it all.

Day 2? It was lobbying day. We wrote our resolutions. I think my situation was pretty hilarious. I picked a topic about nuclear energy, because Germany is against nuclear power. When the groups were gathering, there was already this huge circle of about 20 people supporting nuclear energy, and I was left out of it. So when I was frowning and just standing there awkwardly, a guy I'd seen before in MUNESCO said "Oh you're against nuclear energy too?"
So we formed our own group. We tried to make our resolution not against nuclear power, but limiting it.
I honestly thought it was a bad resolution from the start, but oh well. I met cool people like Dilara, Aymir, Nergis, etc. (Nicaragua, Ireland, and Bolivia respectively)
While Nicaragua and Ireland were running around looking for signatures, I was doodling a dragon in my notebook. A girl approached me and asked if I liked anime (Japanese cartoons). I said "Yes."—which is partially a lie—and we had a conversation about animes we liked. She said she liked drawing too, and she drew something for me in my notebook. Then she gave me her deviantART username, and we kind of became friends. She's such an awesome artist. I mean, AWESOME.

Anyway, we went to the hotel after that. Ezgi asked to use my computer to blog—and I would never let her even touch my computer if I didn't love her and trust her so much. I took a surprisingly quick shower and Ezgi didn't get much time to blog. I don't remember what else we did that night.

Third day was short. We started debating and the day ended around noon. So we changed into comfy clothes and...went to Büyükada! On the ship, we ate food, took photos, saw awkward stuff floating on the sea. I especially pointed out the jellyfish.
With Cem we fed the seagulls. It was such an amazing experience for me. I'm fascinated by birds, and seeing them fly by your hands and playing "Catch the Food" with them is just so much fun. Cem held out pieces of the simit or açma we had and one of the seagulls came so close to us we backed away. One of them actually hovered in the air until it got its piece. Then everybody else joined us and it was just...fun...

We all bought flower tiaras at Büyükada (every one a different colour. mine was blue of course). Ezgi and Bade disappeared in the first few minutes, so we hopped on a horse carriage, made a deal with the driver, and took a short tour. Cem and Boray joined us soon on their rented bikes. We saw ravens, cats, horses, donkeys and cows. I was very tempted to jump off the carriage and ride one of the horses. I miss riding horses. I miss horses.
After we got off the carriage I went and petted the horses for a while before following my friends.
After finding Ezgi and Bade and buying ice cream, we went back.
We took the metro to Taksim and walked around for hours. It was interesting and amusing.

Fourth day? Debating, debating.
I didn't make any speeches but I kept asking questions which resulted in the speaker repeating his speech. Awkward.
I think it was today when we had the boat trip. The first half an hour was horrible for me. Everyone was jumping around, stepping on my feet or crashing to me. I was upstairs for the rest of the trip with my shoes off.
When we got back to the hotel we learned that Cem and Boray had ordered McDonald's for all of us. We sat on the top floor and ate our food. Nom nom nom.

Fifth day...We finished up debating. Our resolution failed (I knew it would, but I still had my hopes up). Eh, the rest was kind of boring. We had the closing ceremony. It was very emotional. The students giving speeches were crying and talking about the end of their MUN journey...Unfortunately we had to leave before it ended. Then long bus trip again.
This time they had movies on the bus, so I watched Spy Kids: Game Over. I loved the movie when I was small, but now I realize how bad the effects are and how awkward the movie is. Oh well.
Bade and I had a little adventure there too. The bus stopped for 30 minutes for a break. We went to the bathroom, and when we came back there were 2 busses parked there, and both of the same company. We kept going inside both busses trying to decide which one was ours. One of the busses was filled with people who seemed rather religious and on the other bus a woman covered in black was praying and it was a little scary since the bus was completely dark too. After a while we realized the bus with the praying woman was ours.

I got home around 2:30 and directly fell asleep. I woke up around 12:00 on Sunday. Then I visited JMUNESCO and it was pretty fun.

Meh meh meh I'm sleepy now.

Yayeeeayeeyay

Ezgi D. let me borrow her Julius Caesar. Thank you!
In art class we designed an adventure with her, which I might draw on my way to Istanbul tomorrow.

I have to finish my resolution. But I'm still distracted. Thanks to a 'friend' who apparently enjoys being away from me for 3 weeks. Haha, funny, dude. Is this a late April Fools joke?

Anyway, for the bus trip tomorrow, I'm planning to read, draw, write (my book!), play on my Nintendo DS, and study for RCIMUN.
I think I'm going to get to see my childhood friend in Istanbul, so that's another reason to be excited!

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