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Month 5 (Part 2) - Turkey & Lebanon

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Merhaba (Turkish), Salam, and Bonjour (Arabic and French spoken in Lebanon)! I totally lied when I said I would write again in a week. It's been a month..... I'm sorry again I'm only writing this just now. For the past month or two my phone stopped working in Jordan and so I kind of just took that as an opportunity to be more present. If you have messaged me anytime in the past two months and I haven't responded, I'm sorry. It's because my phone was only working when I was connected to WiFi, so whenever I would come back home from being out all day, my phone would go crazy with all the notifications coming in at one time. This really overwhelmed me so I kind of just avoided a lot of messages and emails etc. That was probably kind of irresponsible of me, but oh well. Again, I apologize if I didn't respond, I'm slowly catching up to my emails and messages. Being disconnected actually helped me a lot while I was in Jordan because in just a month, I felt I...

Month 5 (Part 1) - Turkey & Egypt

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Merhaba (Turkish)! Or, Salam (Arabic)!!!  Currently I'm writing from Jordan. I got here almost two weeks ago and I haven't felt this at home in awhile.... More on that in my next post. Month 5 is going to be in two parts mostly because, I just have way to many pictures to share. This post is more of a brief on my first five days in Turkey, and then like a photo journal of my Egypt trip. I'll post about the second half of month 5/September next week. September was also a whirlwind of a month. I ended up spending the month travelling around A LOT because my next project wasn't until the beginning of October in Jordan. Plus, I already had set plans to meet up with friends along the way, between Skopje, Macedonia to Amman, Jordan. It was already on my itinerary to visit Turkey not only because it is on the way to Jordan, but mostly because I was planning to see an old friend from Istanbul with whom I studied in Italy with nearly ten years ago. I also had always wan...