I haven't experienced that much yet, so I'll just share some random thoughts this time. As soon as more things happen, my posts will probably become more coherent.
Something you notice immediately while walking through the streets of Istanbul are the cats. They are everywhere! They don't really do anything though, most of them just lie in the sun (and I'm too shy to talk to them).
Furthermore, I noticed some posters of Karl Marx on campus, which has lead me to believe that some students are communists (there were some Turkish words on the posters, but I was unable to decipher them). I have never met any communists in Germany or the Netherlands (although I know a guy who looks a bit like Karl Marx, but that's a different story), so I'm curious now.
The water pressure in the shower is great. However, I'll have to drop my recently adopted habit of brushing my teeth under the shower, because tap water in Turkey is poisoned. Turkish people know this of course, but millions of foreigners get killed every year because they brush their teeth under the shower. My theory is that this might be a defense mechanism, just like German bureaucracy or English cuisine.
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