A night out in Sariyer
As I mentioned earlier, we are rather far from Istanbul, and it is a bit of an ordeal to get there. So unfortunately, we didn't make it down to the city until Thursday, but we did go down to the nearest town, Sariyer for dinner on Tuesday night. Sariyer is a nice little town right on the Bosphorus. So it has a lot of seafood restaurants with beautiful views over the water. We chose one such restaurant, and ended up having a very interesting night.
The view from our table
Most of us ordered the sea bass, which was served whole, much to our surprise. The fish was delicious, and the hospitality was great. The manager brought us an appetizer and later a dessert on the house.
Our group at the table
Me with the remains of my fish
Halfway through our fabulous meal, the manager approached our table and asked if we liked the music that was playing. We said that we did, and he told us that there was a party going on up on the roof with music and dancing. He continued to explain that a student was having a party up there, but only five people had shown up, and she was pretty disappointed. So he asked if we would like to go up there when we had finished our meal. We were a bit apprehensive, but in the end, we decided that we should go and check it out.
When we arrived on the roof and found the party, we discovered that it consisted of about seven Turkish teenage girls in prom dresses. They were very excited that we were there (well to be honest, they were a bit more excited to see the boys), even though we couldn't speak Turkish, and they could not speak English. With the help of the restaurant manager, we found out that it was a graduation party for the girls who were graduating from high school. We stayed for a while trying to converse with the girls, dancing, and drinking free wine. It was quite the experience, and I'm sure it gave them a great story to tell their friends.
Me and one of the new graduates
The view from our table
Most of us ordered the sea bass, which was served whole, much to our surprise. The fish was delicious, and the hospitality was great. The manager brought us an appetizer and later a dessert on the house.
Our group at the table
Me with the remains of my fish
Halfway through our fabulous meal, the manager approached our table and asked if we liked the music that was playing. We said that we did, and he told us that there was a party going on up on the roof with music and dancing. He continued to explain that a student was having a party up there, but only five people had shown up, and she was pretty disappointed. So he asked if we would like to go up there when we had finished our meal. We were a bit apprehensive, but in the end, we decided that we should go and check it out.
When we arrived on the roof and found the party, we discovered that it consisted of about seven Turkish teenage girls in prom dresses. They were very excited that we were there (well to be honest, they were a bit more excited to see the boys), even though we couldn't speak Turkish, and they could not speak English. With the help of the restaurant manager, we found out that it was a graduation party for the girls who were graduating from high school. We stayed for a while trying to converse with the girls, dancing, and drinking free wine. It was quite the experience, and I'm sure it gave them a great story to tell their friends.
Me and one of the new graduates
posted by Erin Kay at 8:24 PM
3 Comments:
Glad to see what you have been up to and that you are still alive.....
need to talk tonight--will you be around?
your mother
wow... who's not up for a random encounter with newly graduated turks? I'm winding down here on my internship, only two weeks left. Tom is in-flight from Amsterdam and is set to land in Detroit at 12:55 so I am pretty much just focused on that at the moment. Time to get ready to go into work, though. Hope you're having a nice afternoon at the moment.
Erin! Your pictures of Romanian churches look just like my pictures of Italian churches. Europe is so boring, sigh. Churches churches churches. Ellen wants you to call her as soon as you get back in the country (urgent urgent urgent, according to her; she's standing over my shoulder right now). Have more fun! Yay!
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