What I Would Miss

There's not enough space to fill in all the m's this little chocolate log deserves when writing its "mmm."

Mel posed a question to me: "What would you miss that was genuinely Turkish if we were to leave Turkey today?"

To this, I came up with several different examples of things that we had actually first experienced in Germany. This includes drying clothes on a rack instead of a dryer, using the metro, the electric kettle, and light switches. A couple of these were just stabs at finding something different from America. For example, I'm not really all that sure that I'd miss using the drying rack. 

However, I was able to come up with one thing that was uniquely Turkish (thus far) that we regularly enjoy and will truly miss whenever it is that we leave Turkey. Nearly every night we enjoy a single brownie made by ETi. It doesn't sound like anything special, but check out THIS VIDEO! I don't know what this dude is saying, but even the words sound delicious. 

Maybe that's a little weak considering how different day to day life is here, but when you talk about every day life, it's the indulgences that really stick out. But in case you'd care to know about some other daily differences, look below.

I'm not even sure if drying machines exist here.
Instead, everyone has one of these foldout things and
is willing to wait the 2 - 6 hours for their clothes to dry.

EVERYONE uses an electric kettle over here.
I think it's because more people drink tea and coffee.
Truth be told, we're sold on it, too, and we'll definitely get one wherever
we go next since it heats a liter of water in under a minute!

Light switches almost all look like this over here.
None of the American "nose up, nose down" business.
What's more is that it's backwards.
For America, the up position is on, but not for Europe/Asia.
We're STILL getting used to this.

The one on the right here is the electrical outlet.
I don't know what the one on the left is.
So don't bother brining your hair dryer unless you have a converter.

Here Mel holds a tea or çay cup.
I don't even care for tea, but we pretty much had
to buy a set when we saw how pretty the glassware was.

The tap water makes our tummies feel funny and may contain brain eating amoebas.
In answer to this, Turkey sells a LOT of bottled water, which usually arrives to your home in less than 30 minutes.
The air pump on the top of the bottle is terrible and takes an engineer to work correctly.