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.
Note the large opening in the main courtyard. That is the "Portal of Knowledge" and, no shit, when you walk through there you can feel your brain, like, EXPAND and stuff....
Note the large opening in the main courtyard. That is the "Portal of Knowledge" and, no shit, when you walk through there you can feel your brain, like, EXPAND and stuff....
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