(h2)(b)Welcome to Bill and Carol's Senior Trip Abroad: Month 2!(b)(h2) (i)Yevash, Yevash(i) (slowly, gradually) has been the theme for this month as we continue to take baby steps toward acculturation in Turkey. Each day is packed full of surprises, minor setbacks, and tiny triumphs. This week, for example, Bill found a good berber (turns out that "barber" means "barbarian") and got a spiffy haircut (which comes with a THOROUGH head massage). And only this morning I purchased two tubes of glue by speaking Turkish. (Okay, it required only one short sentence and I rehearsed beforehand, but still...!) And since we are in our second month in the flat, our utility bills are arriving. Bill thought he had arranged to have them paid automatically by our Turkish bank, but nothing seems to work out as we expect.
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