Koc University

So I am currently in Turkey about 45 minutes to an hour outside of Istanbul. We are staying at Koc (pronounced 'coach') University in Sariyer, Turkey. The University is a very strange place. It is in a somewhat remote area outside of Istanbul, and it is very heavily guarded and surrounded by barbed wire. It has a bookstore, a grocery store, a hair salon, travel agency, restaurant, exercise facility, bank, post office, and pretty much everything except for a swimming pool. The buildings are all made out of the same color stone, as is much of the ground in between them. So it is like being on some strange military compound, and I'm not quite sure how I feel about it. I will do my best to take some pictures of the campus for you before I head out, but I don't have any yet.

When we want to go into Istanbul or to Sariyer (the nearest town) it is kind of a big undertaking. So unfortunately we don't have the freedom to explore Istanbul like I would like to. But we have been down there twice thus far. I am sorry for getting behind on my blog updates. I will do my best to get it up to date (with pictures and everything) in the next couple of days.

Here are some pictures of the campus: