HEAVEN!!!

This city is also the city of cats for sure ! Perfect place for a cat lover like me ! Kediler aaww

...finally we arrived to Mersin, all I could think of was "THE SEASIDE ! I want to see the seaside!". I didn't care if I had to carry my 20kg suitcase with me along the way, I wanted to see it, smell the salt in the air, I just love the sea and couldn't wait to finally live next to it. But before we were introduced to the Mediterranean sea, we were introduced to our fellow Erasmus students who led us to the flat where we'll be living together before we'll get our own flat. The multicultural flat contained 2 French and 2 Spanish students, now richer with 2 Hungarians. I was really happy to meet them, before we came, they already offered their kind help by writing messages to us, asking if we had any questions, and encouraged us that everything will be okay, and we'll have a memorable semester. I was a little afraid that we wont fit in, because they already knew each other since September, but to my surprise we felt nothing like that, not even for a second. I can honestly say we met good, fun people. We put our stuff down, and went to eat our first meal together. I can't remember the name of the place, since I could only remember my name at that point. Everything was still so new, so unbelieveable, I only ordered turkish tea or 'çay' in it's more famous name. I couldn't eat, maybe from the excitement, maybe because I was so tired from traveling, I only had strenght to finally walk alonside the sea, and all I could think of was "I'm here...I'm really here". suso still nice

...the very first thing I noticed was that the weather is not even close to being as cold as back home, in Serbia. While at this second in Subotica (Serbia) it's 2 degree Celsius in Mersin it's 16, but people here dress like it's 2 degrees, because this weather is the winter weather for them, so they feel it more cold than we do. The second thing I noticed, is the way they drive...Fast and Furious movie makers could learn a thing or two from some middle aged bus/car drivers. Also in the bus the radio was screaming turkish music above my head, which I, to be honest, really like. Certain rhythms and sounds remind me of serbian music, so it's not so foreign for me, also many words, habits and behaviors reveal that once the two nations lived together... suso is nice.

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Proud to finally say :

Cheers to the new adventure!

I'm in MERSIN, TURKEY !!! After months of waiting for this day to come...
What I felt when the plane touched down? I can only explain it with an example :

You sit in a restaurant, already ordered your meal, a meal you never had before, but just know it's going to taste awesome, so you order and wait, wait for the waiter to finally show up with your food in their hands. And you get more curious and hungrier in every minute that passes without you getting your order...and then ! They show up and put the long-awaited meal right infront of you. You can smell it, touch it, it's aaall yours. That's how it felt, finally being where I only imagined myself being. A place I was only talking about going to for months to friends and family members who were looking at me with curious and worried eyes.
Picked up my luggage and the doors of the airport opened. A familiar face with a smile greeted me and my friends not so fresh but full of curiosity expression. My friend is also my classfellow from Szeged University, so I'm not the only one who decided to take a step towards this unknown world from my environment.
A kind turkish student from the university where we'll study picked us up, and showed the way to the bus that will take us to Mersin, where we'll live for the next 4 months as Erasmus students.
From Adana airport to Mersin there's a one hour bus drive, and while traveling I forgot how tired I actually was. Looking out of the window of the bus like a child and inhaling everything I saw, like I saw it for the first time...I was thinking : "Everything here is the same, yet everything is so different."

To be continued...

Perfectly said. :)