Campus!

I finally decided to post some pictures of campus! Enjoy seeing my lovely school.  I really think its one of the most beautiful campuses I've ever seen, if not the most beautiful.

So this is the gate to the Güney Kampüsü, or South Campus.  The largest campus, the one with a forest and all our classes on it!

This is a view of the Güney Kampüsü from my classroom's balcony!  We have a pretty sweet classroom, but the sun coming through the massive windows makes half of it miserably hot to sit in, so whoever comes in last gets those seats, haha.

So here's the opposite, a view of our building from campus below!

This is the movie center on campus.  So far we've watched three Turkish films here; Organize İşler, Babam ve Oğlum and Umut.  I've enjoyed them all.  The first one was a comedy about some criminals in İstanbul, the second was a really sad movie about a guy and his family, his wife dies and then later he dies while his kid is still really young. Umut was an older movie (Black and white!) and was actually pretty depressing.. a guy going crazy because he's super poor and cant pay his debts or feed his family very well.. it had no real resolution either.  I'm not even entirely sure.. I'm terrible at watching movies and even worse at explaining them, so don't blame me!

This is the building where we have lab, which consists of us sitting in a room and doing all sorts of pretty repetitive listening exercises.  I kinda like it though..

I just like this area... there are so many beautiful ones though.

Michelle from my class playing with some of the numerous kitties on campus :D  I love how people feed them and don't care if they come into the buildings.  Sometimes they end up in our classrooms even, it's happened a few times.  I remember that was one of the most surprising things for me at the beginning.  There were cats wandering around distracting people during our placement exam :P  I approve of this attitude towards kitties..

This is my dorm.  Its actually pretty far from Güney Kampüsü on Uçaksavar Kampüsü.  Going to class in the morning isn't so bad, but walking home is all uphill, like this...

This is only a tiny portion of the hill, but the walk is about 20 minutes in the heat and humidity.  The forest is on either side of the road most of the way...

... But sometimes you get breaks in the trees along the way to see the incredible Bosphorus.  Boğaziçi is in Europe, but you can see Asia right across the water.  Look how close it is! :D