Bayram = Slik! :)

Selvom Mehmet ikke holder ramadan og faster osv. så køber han alligevel masser af slik idag når der er Bayram.Han har købt en kæmpe æske chokolade til hotellet, og i morges havde han lagt chokolader til mig:) Jeg må hellere købe en lille ting til ham også, efter arbejde.

Tyrkisk aften

Igår aftes tog jeg hen på hotellet Mehmet arbejder på da der var den første tyrkiske aften i denne sæson.

Jeg nåede lige at få noget at spise, og så var der tyrkisk folkedans, mavedans og "staffdance"

Desværre kunne jeg ikke få så mange billeder da min tlf løb tør for strøm :(

Jeg kom ikke til tyrkisk undervisning idag, jeg var simpelthen for træt og kunne ikke overskue en lang aftenvagt bagefter....

Tyrkisk bar

Et par billeder fra Tyrkisk bar fra onsdag aften, desværre har jeg ikke blitz på så det er ikke så tydeligt.

Tyrkiske traditioner - Børnenes dag, 23 april

 Idag er det børnenes dag i Tyrkiet, så der har været en masse aktiviteter og optog i byen. Desværre nåede jeg ikke at se det, men har fået taget et par billeder af det der var tilbage :)

 Vores kontor er et sted inde bag flagene :)

Du ved du er tyrker når.....

Jeg har fundet denne sjove liste på en hjemmeside, det er meget præcist faktisk. Har udeladt nogle da der var en del. Men det er disse jeg kan nikke genkendene til:

• You take your shoes off before entering a home and you don’t get why non-Turks find that funny.
• You always invite people to have a cup of tea before, after or in the middle of an activity or even if there is no activity.  Helt sikkert, vi har fået te hos en slagter, vores lokale filmmand, en butik med krydderier og mange flere underlige steder.
• Your parents have a minor disagreement and don’t talk to each other for 10 days.
• You call an older person you’ve never met abla or abi. Mehmets små nevøer kalder mig abla, det er så sødt :)
• You hide everything from your parents.
• Everyone is a family friend or somehow related to you.
• You love eating kebabs, Iskender and eating in general. You always cook for at least 10 people and at dinner parties there’s enough food for the next two months.
• You make coffee in a saucepan.
• You always say ‘open the light’ instead of ‘turn the light on’. Det er jeg også begyndt på! Lidt pinligt men det hænger ved når alle andre siger det.
• Your mom thinks the future lies in the bottom of a coffee cup.
• Your parents compare you to all of their friends kids.
• No one ever seems to call ahead of time to say they are coming for a weekend.
• You think that you are the greatest nation in the world and other nations are either jealous or want to destroy you.
• And you think everyone in the world is concerned with what happens in your country. You’re shocked when you learn that some Europeans or Americans are unable to locate your country on a map.
• You live in a secular country but you believe in God and of course you are Muslim. This means that you might fast during Ramadan yet still have no qualms about consuming alcohol the other 11 months. You’d still go to Heaven though, because God forgives.
• Your mother can make yogurt from nothing. Mehmet får altid en hel masse yoghurt, hjemmelavet smør, honning osv. med fra sine forældre :)
• Some of your male relatives look like mafia in a suit.
• You ask your dad a simple question and he tells you a story of how he had to walk miles to get to school.
• You talk with your guests at the door for 20-30 minutes when they are leaving. Også rigtigt, man får aldrig lov til at gå, og bliver altid budt på mad.
• You show your love and affection to people by physically hurting them (esp. pinching, slapping, biting)
• You eat olives, cheese and tomatoes for breakfast.
• You always bargain for everything. After all, everyone who is in the selling business is cin gibi and everything is always overpriced.
• An hour late is still tolerable.
• You tan better than everybody else in the sun – and if you don’t this is subject once in a while.
• Men and women: you get kissed, hugged and squeezed in your cheeks a lot.
• Your mother is the boss in the house. You adore her and will do everything to keep her happy. But you also think she nags too much.
• Everyone you know has brown or green eyes.
• You are convinced that everything your mother does is the way it’s supposed to be done. Even when you’re grown up.
• Also you are convinced that the Turkish cuisine is the best and you think that the rest of the world eats bland and boring food.
• And you can defend the statement that baklava, dolma and cacık is originally Turkish, not Greek, with an impressive amount of arguments. ALT er originalt tyrkisk hvis man spørger en tyrker og de andre lande har bare stjålet det :)
• You may have broken a lot of rules from the Holy Book but you can proudly say that you never ate pork in your life. And you still fail to understand how other people can eat it.
• You know at least 40 ways to cook an Aubergine.
• If you gain 2 kilo people will tell you you’re getting fat. If you lose 2 kilo they are concerned about your health and appetite.
• The first thing you say when you make a call is: Neredesin? (Where are you?)
• You ask every taxi driver and every new person you meet where he’s from in Turkey.
• If you’re a man there are two people in your life that you can’t say no to: your mother and your girlfriend/wife. Hehe :)
• You’re very generous and a great host by nature. And you always tip.
• You say no by rising your eyebrows and front head and making a clicking sound with your tongue.
• Asking directions in traffic doesn’t hurt your manhood, vacuuming does.
• You respect older people and offer them your seat in the bus. You greet your grandparents with a kiss on their hand.
• Your home is very clean, full of crystal and embroidary and overheated in winter. Your sheets and blankets never match. .
• You live at home until you get married. But your mother will never stop worrying if you eat enough and if your laundry is clean.
• After a night out you want to eat soup.
• You always have a ‘friend’ to call to speed up the process if something needs to be fixed, arranged, bought or done. Even for official paperwork. Altid!
• A meal without bread is incomplete. And bread is always white. Tyrkere kan sagtens spise et helt brød alene til et måltid.
• You can open a sunflower seed with your teeth in less than a second and eat 100 of them within one minute. And you love to eat raw plums called Erik, with salt of course.
• You smoke.. a lot! and probably started at 16.
• You believe in destiny and that everything happens for a reason.
• You are a night person and you love to sleep in till noon. Or, you just love to sleep.

Ikke så spændende bryllup....

Igår aftes skulle vi jo til Tyrkisk bryllup som jeg havde glædet mig til.
Det viste sig bare at være ret kedeligt så vi blev der ikke ret længe, da vi ikke rigtig kendte nogen udover tjenerne fra hotellet. De serverede heller ikke engang noget, havde regnet med noget kage eller i det mindste noget at drikke, men nej. De gæster der var kommet tidligere havde fået en juicebrik hver (?) meget underligt.

Så vi gik en tur ned til vores lokale filmmand, fandt et par film, gik hjem og lavede popcorn og så faldt jeg ellers i søvn...

I morges vågnede jeg så op til dette :)

Det er altså dejligt at have en kæreste der ikke arbejder for tiden.

Men så har jeg lovet at lave morgenmad på torsdag når jeg også har fri, så må vi se hvis der er bedst :)

Tyrkiske helligdage - Kurban Bayram (offerfest)

Denne helligdag, der faktisk foregår i 4 dage, handler primært om at ofre dyr.

Reglen er at alle voksne der har penge nok, skal ofre et "bondegårsdyr" det vil sige en ko, en ged, et får osv. til gud. Det betragtes som en synd ikke at gøre det. (Det er dog ikke fordi der er særlig mange der gør det her i Alanya, det er mest i landsbyerne)
Efter ofringen, laver man et kæmpe måltid ud af kødet og inviterer familie og venner, resten gives til de fattige.

Jeg tror (desværre) ikke jeg får set noget af denne helligdag da det ikke er så normalt at ofre dyrene inde midt i byerne. Det kunne ellers være lidt spændende...



Oversat: God Bayram!