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...
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...
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