February!!

I can't believe it's February. I just accepted a volunteer position/internship at Amnesty International Turkey, which I start on Monday. I'll be working there three days a week helping with fund-raising and their International Criminal Court campaign. I'm excited.

Now I'm looking for more teaching hours so that I can still live well here-- I have an interview with a language school on Tuesday and I am emailing back and forth with another one at the moment so hopefully one of them will come through. I'm really looking forward to getting settled into my new routine, whatever it may be.

In the meantime, I've been discovering just how cheaply a person CAN live in Istanbul. A loaf of bread is about $0.35, a bag of pasta $0.55, beer at the cheapest bar I've found is $1.85 for 33cl. So...I'm being as savvy as possible. Eating lots of pasta, eggs, and tuna melts.

More pictures soon, I promise! I took a lovely one the other day of the view of the Bosphorus Bridge from the top of the stairs that lead down to my street. :)