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Cake day: July 30th, 2024

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  • I was at one of the best schools in Turkey for a week on exchange.

    The cafeteria food i got to try was good but probably nothing special for Turkey in terms of dish selection and such. I really mostly remember eating sucuc scrambled eggs and sipping tea every morning.

    We only had one dinner at the school while I was there which was very nice and fancy, but it also was separate from the normal boarding school dinner. So quite a bit nicer for just our group of 60 especially I’d guess in terms of presentation. The chefs running the show were the same tho so the taste should be quite good even for regular dinner.

    The rest of the evenings as far as I can remember we were eating out and getting hammered in downtown Istanbul so the host students at least had some allowance to burn and so did the rest of us.

    I don’t think I really ate anything that was close to bad or unappealing that entire week, but im also not that picky and Turkish food obviously slaps.

    German (no menu unfortunately): https://www.istanbullisesi.net/ Turkish (with menu) : https://istanbulerkeklisesi.meb.k12.tr/




  • I wouldn’t think so, mostly because it’s long and not straightforward to read/pronounce.

    I find my parents approach to naming to be quite reasonable : Give a short and easy to pronounce/understand first name, and a more creative/interesting and longer second name.

    Short names generally make things easier, and about half of the people I know that have long first names (3 or more syllables) have adopted a shortened version of their name or an unrelated nickname for everyday use.

    Steffie instead of Stephanie, tini instead of christine, Ulli instead of ulrich, johan for Johannes, max for Maximilian…