Finished

Finally the crowning achievement of my trip, I think this is one of the best pictures I have every taken.


A side street in the Taxim in a blizzard.

Almost done

Picture of a Mosque in the snow


A bridge in Istanbul, I cant remeber which one it is


Inside a palace


At a bar later that night



Inside the Hagia Sofia


Call to prayer in Istanbul

Starting the second round of pictures

I took more than 150 pictures over this trip so I'm only posting a small portion. I have some videos as well to post.

The Blue Mosque


Inside the Blue Mosque



Inside the Istanbul spice market

Again Istanbul

Outside the Hagia Sofia


Inside the Hagia Sofia

Again Istanbul

Another group shot with the tour guide


Inside the Jewish Musum of Istanbul, the only Jewish musume in a Muslim country


Some famous stairs


The streets

More Istanbul

The Cupola of the Synagogue



The outside, there were two blast doors about 3-4 inches thick and they must have weighed about a ton each


Just me


A picture of the second Synagogue

More Istanbul

A shot of the of the old city


Walking up to the first Synagogue


A plaque in the Synagogue


Inside


A little artistic B&W shot

Finally posting some Istanbul pictures

Now that I have some time to myself (I've been out partying, going to the port, going to the park over the past two days) I can finally post some of the pictures that I took in Istanbul. I took about 130 pictures on the first day so I am only going to post the better/interesting ones, the rest are on facebook.


First up, a friend and I going out on the first night in Turkey



A few shots of the dinner (we had about 12 people with us that night)





The first full day in the tour van, we had 8 people on the tour.

Just some pictures of the dorm room

I have told a couple people about the state of our dorms here and they are a long way from even my freshman room. When I first walked in the room I was like, "How am I going to live here for 5 months...” Now that I am settled in and unpacked its almost livable.

More pictures

Went to an Israel-Romaina Football Match Yesterday

Some friends and I went to an Israeli national football team match against Romaina last night, and we won 2-1! It wasn't too crowded but it was still pretty cool to see a professonal football game.

Giants win! Giants win!!!

So last night a couple of friends and I went to a microbrewery in the city called the Dancing Camel. You had to buy a ticket online and there were only 100 available because it was an all-you-can-drink, all-you-can-eat, type thing, which was amazing! Anyway, I have absolutely no voice anymore from screaming at the game and we didn't get back until about 5:30 in the morning because of the time difference. Plus it was nice to see utter rejection on the faces of all the Pats fans that night; New York finally got their revenge for 2004!






And a video of the bar.