Rugs....

This was interesting and probably one of my least favorite days thus far. We woke up super early to go look at rugs. That's right, rugs. I like rugs and I appreciate the fact that these rugs are hand made, one of a kind, made of wool, absolutely gorgeous and really hard work, but is it necessary to look at them at 9am? Really?

They were beautiful though and extremely expensive. There were a few people from my group who bought them from $250 to $1,300 a rug. Not for the weak hearts. I would buy one except I don't want to pay an addition $400 to ship it to the USA and I'm not lugging it around for the next 6 weeks. Nice try, but I have enough to tote around. The cool part about these rugs was that we got to go to the village where they were made and meet the women who actually made them. We watched them spin the wool, dye it, build the looms and the frame work and watch them construct the patterns. That's hard core stuff. It takes months to finish a decent size hallway runner rug let alone a full size rug for your living room or something. Anyways, I looked at rugs, beautiful rugs, but rugs still.

We had a chance to experience village life in Turkey, which honestly isn't much different than any other village that I've been to. Egypt, Slovakia, and Bosnia all had villages very similar. The ideas are the same: a mosque or church in the center, with people of crafts or skills closest to the middle and then the farm lands on the outside. Nothing extreme and nothing that really looked or stood out as being very different. Just humble people living humble lives and not a life that I would want at all. I can't Shelby Township. I feel isolate even there. Put my in a village in Slovakia for a month and I'm screaming with cabin fever. I just can't do it. And the air? What's so fresh about that? It only stinks of cows, horses and their dung. There is always some stupid rooster who wants to end up on my breakfast plate because of their constant whining in the morning with their cock-a-doodle-stinkin-do. Nope. I totally understand why there are village idiots and its because certain people cannot deal with the village life. I would be the village idiot in no time! I'll take Shelby Township and the MAC any day over a village and that's saying a lot my friends.

Other than annoying villages, I am slightly aggravated with out eating schedule, and you all know how important that is to me. This is not to be taken lightly. Our wake up times are constantly changing, from 6:30am to 7:30, to 6:30 again, sometimes 7. We eat breakfast super early, lunch at around 3! Who east lunch at 3!?!?!? That's more of an early dinner or lunner! That doesn't work for me. Everyday here has seen a later dinner. On our first night it was at 7pm, now we eating dinner 9pm! And its not because the Turks eat dinner late, but because we are traveling so much that we don't even have time to eat! Its tough.

Anyways, I'm disappointed that no one has been telling me what they've been up to in Michigan. Fill me in kids!