As much as I am an instructor here in İstanbul, what becomes more insistant is that I am here as the student of a city and a culture and a language. But more to the point, it is the city and the culture and the languauge of my wife, and I can’t help but feel that, in meeting this city, I am meeting her again. İstanbul is enchanting, beautiful, romantic, slightly crazy, and full of wonderful complexity. Exactly as I should have known. Exactly.
The campus was once an odd labyrinth of identical courtyards and tunnels, now it seems rather smaller and homey, although the uniformity of facades is still disconcerting.
The campus was once an odd labyrinth of identical courtyards and tunnels, now it seems rather smaller and homey, although the uniformity of facades is still disconcerting.
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