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It was a beautiful weekend! Friday night was a wonderful time spent with friends. We started out with our friend's birthday dinner at an amazingly cute restaurant in town. It was so nice to have a break from school food! (side note: the school food is great, but having the same thing all the time is starting to get a little old!). We all headed over to the US embassy for happy hour which is always a nice time. Hearing English is good for the soul right now.

Saturday morning I woke up nice and early to head off to see my school's volleyball team play the DoDDS school. It was nice getting to know some of the girls. They reminded me of the girls from camp for some reason! But I have to say, the best part of the whole morning was.........OREOS!!! Yay! After 10 weeks of craving the chocolaty goodness, I finally got my hands on some oreos and even poptarts! After getting home, I jumped on a bus for a shopping adventure in town! Yay for figuring my way around all by myself!

Today I had brunch with a few friends in town. So. Good. There was even bacon involved. (First of all, its hard to find anything with bacon in Turkey, and second of all I don't really eat meat...but I had to make an exception for bacon...in Turkey!) We were going to go to the English bookstore, but ran out of time and had to run back to school for our "UN Day Celebration." I have to be honest, I was not looking forward to it, but I ended up really enjoying spending some time with my pre-K team and seeing the kiddos outside of the classroom!

Overall a really great weekend! Should be an easy upcoming week and then I'm basically in Italy! yay! 9 days!

In class we've been talking about Fall and the different changes we see. We pulled out some fashion magazines and the kids were to look through them and find good clothes for this time of year. I'm thinking this little guy was trying to earn some brownie points! Way cute!