Bored..........

Hey girlies,

with summer finally in full swing and my lack of time off and therefore inability to make it to Turkey, I must say that I find the American summer without the anticipation to go to Turkey rather boring and bland.

There might be a few reasons to this connundrum; one of which is location and the fact that DC has no beaches and another being the fact that other than Yola I really don't know many people but I must admit that I am really really bored.

Besides the bored part, the boring environement is also draining my willingness to do anything usefull so I am in this vitious cycle of non-stop annoyance or lack of productivity. So tell me dearest friends what should I be doing to boost up my situation given that there is no swimming or beaches in near sight ???????

Miss you all hope your summers are in full swing...........

Sabine

I am back

from the land of daylight (well also darkness) and the land of good food/wine/company.
Yes I am talking about Norway and Espana.
See for yourself.

and here is more if you want more:
Norway: http://picasaweb.google.com/selinzalma/20070704_NorwayTrip02?authkey=yU5v5qzkcsI
Madrid:
http://picasaweb.google.com/selinzalma/20070708_Madrid?authkey=vFJ9IQONpuI

Hello!!

To all browniiess!

Its great to hear from all.. the news and the geyiks..

And maybe a little late but

Congratulations to Yola and the baby - must be fabulous :)

And I just read the news on sabah that Tanla posted -I am so proud of my school!!

So Selin since you are in Istanbul how about organizing the grand Brown gathering ??

With new and old and all brownies and will be brownies and current brownies

one big happy family ;)

loves to all

g

And the Turks had never before layed eyes on the fruit called the mango...........

A bag of 5 kilos of mangos which Kerim Can and Beril managed to buy from a refrigerated trailer that was the only grocery store on the island at 7 am in the morning











old city san juan..........

Ask and you shall receive........

Advanced travel to Isla de Vieques............

leaving pr on our vast plane........

First hours in Esmerelda..........

Horses horses everywhere............

And you thought you had tolerance to the sun..................

Sabine steals Beril's mango:)

and then there was Joey.........

Hello brownies :)

Here are pics from the shower for Joey.

See you soon in DC

My Brownies, I thought I would prove to you that I am indeed in Istanbul. See above for your viewing pleasure.

tanti, once you are done picking sylvia's nose, can you please come back to turkey and start picking mine?

yo! where is the brownie love?

cube 63.... the backroom

i was the only one who posted the whole time.

it's your post.

you post what you want on your post.

dude, all i'm saying is that i'm trying to keep these brunonians together and they all have sign in problems!!!

are you guys not smart enough?

are you not browniesssssss....

oh... does anyone have one?

ps: tanti is in ny just for a day.. and those are the places we have been! And those are the words tanti told to sylvia!!

ps: and here r our photos in ny

tanla's car 2

...and here is another shot of it...

there's some great body work there lady... and that paint job simply rocks!

tanla's car

yo tanla!

your car was parked on the sidewalk the other day...

"idris mutlu" at brown

you should see this.

It is amazing. This boy from Siirt has won full scolarship to brown. He is on the cover page of Sabah today...amazing story and just the perfect guy for Brown. I love Brown!

He is the son of a 6 children-family, his dad is a porter and his mom is illiterate. He has finished his primary school by working as shoepolisher and selling "simit"....and now here he is having won the full scholarship to the coolest university in the US...yeahy!

PS: I am very dissapointed by the way they have written about Brown however..."ABD'deki Brown Universitesini kazandi -- He has been accepted by Brown University in the US" as if this is a decent unknown school somewhere in the US!!

cheers.

(PS2: it is in www.sabah.com.tr 25/5/2007's firstpage news.)

Come out, come out where ever you are ????????

Dearests considering the lack of any posts I am assuming everyone is having a quite boring beginning of summer or a rather exciting one with no time at hand.

Which one is it???

final...

7) we went swimming usually after partying around 7am..There were less people this way, much better! (this is how we did not get tanned at all)
8) and this is one of the many samba nights we had!

5) matty, sylvia and I on top of Corcovado (where the statue is located)

6) there were amazing graffitis all around the city!

Rio photos con't

3) rio seen from the top of Christo...

4) and our divine Christo... here he is!

more rio photos on high demand!

1) you can see the "double hook-up" photo of me and Sylvia! What a happy family were we:)

2) we rented bikes on sunday and biked the whole beach side from Ipanema to Copacobana

to be continued...

Hello brownies from all over the world!
Tanti it was such as good idea to create a communication place for us! I missed you all. When you mentioned about New Orleans trip, my heart made 'cızz' (also 'jazz') suddenly. I remembered of our house, of the broken jakuzi (!), of the drunk nights, of the beeds, jazz..anyways, I hope we get back all together soon at another vacation like that.
By the way Yola, congratulations!!! (a little late though, sorry for that..) is it a he or she ???
Also, a late (I am always late what's happening to me!!) Happy Birthday to all the brownies who had their consecutive birthdays on February, March and April (this sounds like a 'toplu dugun' ama olsun hiç yoktan iyidir!)
I kiss you all and see you again from here,
galya

I love rio!

Sylvia and I just came back from Rio... There are really no exact words to describe this city. It is magical, beautiful, mystic, poor, rich and sexy and most of all it is all about samba and caipirinha (their national drink which we have adopted very quickly!). It was actually a great vacation and I am having an extremely hard time in adopting myself back to normal now hehe! If anybody did not watch "city of god", you guys should...there you all see the favellas which is all around in Rio. I actually never knew that "gecekondu"s were imported globally! And the "christo" statue on top of Rio is magnificent...I might just adopt christianity..he is really welcoming me over there. This must be my destiny!

Hey, I wished you girls were there with us... it reminded so much of our New Orleans -- Canada -- Miami trips!

Hope to have some more of them sometime -- maybe this time with JOEY!

Brown Alumni Join Protest in Ankara

hundreds of thousands of people
shouting "lightbulb Tayyip"
in front of the Anıtkabir last weekend.
For those who may not have heard the event,
it was a protest in opposition to Tayyip Erdoğan's probable presidency.
Slogans also included:
"Al git anani
Kasimpasa imamı"
and collective chantings of songs such as
"Dağ başını duman almış
Gümüş dere durmaz akar"
which created the atmosphere of a sunday picnic.
It was soooooooo crowded...
Hayirlisi insllah.......

soon there will be baby...

yola has a baby in her belly
we shall soon discover
if he will be smelly
or she be pretty...

Why the reproach?

"Bu ne sitem abla?" says Yola.
I was subject to a reproaching email from Tanti, reminding of the blog link and sarcastically commenting for those "of [us] who do not contribute. "
Here I am, here I am. I am so truly sorry it took me a few days to write.

But honey, the office was closed -- Passover and all - you keep forgetting your holidays. We're actually closed today too, but here I am, lonely in my office, contributing to this genius blog. What a great idea, Tanti.

This week I shall post a photo of a quite pregnant lady. And by Thursday afternoon will let you know whether you'll have a little niece or nephew.

love,
me

eskisehir

and I shall recommend you to go to eskisehir some day..
I was there last weekend with mama and papa ozuzun and with bunch of old lovers.
you know it is a small but very kitsch city.
along the porsuk river they have contructed 8 bridges... in all different colours.
and the anadolu university has such a cool campus.
here are the kids who have posed for me and the bridges!

happy eastern for those who celebrate and search for the eggs

sylviam and tronx!!!

happy eastern..

why is tanla?...

why is tanla wearing her primary school uniform?

thank you for your effort in
creating dialogue among the brown alumni
long live tanti
for it is on this endless page that the
brown spirit shall continue to fluorish...
i send you all my deer salutations and love

who is tanla?

Hi, my name is tanla.

you can also call me "tanti" if you wish.

I think I am a nice person.

and loveable in the same time.

and this is how I look with my new haircut.

and lastly I wish to say:

"I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?" (the merchant of venice)

blue

a wise one once told me...

"i hold two crosses.
one is blue.
the other is you."

tanti i love the poet in you
but why horses?

god has taled to tanla first!!!

tanlaaaaaa...
would you like to tell us about your dream from last night... when the brown bear came to you in a white beard and said:
tanla, you are the chosen one... only you can bring together these lazy, wretched brownies who aRE way too involved with partying that they do not realize who is there and not... tanla, my dear child, be strong, and turn your laptop on... now go, thee shall go to blogger.com,,,

well, was it this? am i close?

anyways, thank you!!!

how is that for a deer start?
and the us folk are still a sleep...

we can talk!

in God I believe.
I believe this is soo cool,
sharing a blog just us.
I believe we can do this;
share our lives, toughts, sorrows, photos, "geyiks" for some of us especially
I believe we can make each other laugh some
or bore if necessary.
I believe in brown
and in us I believe.
in deo speramus welcomes you all!
it shall begin.
throw me some bone here...
c'omon.