I'm back in Benghazi and I just had a round of exams. I got my IGCSE's alongside my AS Level exams done and it was kind of hectic. I had a total of 11 exams, 3 AS Levels, and 8 IGs. If it were up to me, I think I did pretty well, but we'll see what the examiner thinks.

I think my most difficult exam was Math. I hate Math, and I didn't exactly study well for it, but ehh, what's done is done now. My results come out in March, and then I have another round of exams in  May which include 3 AS Levels, and 2 IGs and those results come out in August.

I'm currently waiting to hear from the university I applied to. Their deadline for applying was on the 15th of this month and I know it's going to take a while for them to reply, but I just can't wait anymore. I hope to be hearing from them soon and I sure hope it's good news.

I go back to school tomorrow, I'm kind of excited, I miss going to school and all and as part of Student Council I'm going to try to manage to organize more events/activities for school this term.

Last term we weren't very 'fruitful' on organizing events or activities. We just set up 4 girl volley ball teams and had a volley ball tournament. We were pretty lucky on having enough girls sign up for the tournament; actually we had to beg for some girls to sign up as girls here aren't very active or sporty. It's kind of annoying sometimes. Some of the girls just decided to bail out and it was just bad. But however, we got through it. The boys organized a soccer tournament and that went pretty well.

Also, we had to work on the 2010/2011 school yearbook, which I thought was completely unnecessary. I suggested we should just make like a 2010/2011/2012 yearbook because when the uprising started school shut down, so basically we missed half the year. So, when we came back in September, I was rushed into getting the yearbook done and I hate rushed work. I was told I had to give it in before Eid break, but that was physically impossible because it wasn't together yet. I was kind of working on the whole thing on my own and obviously I needed help. I got help from 2 guys from the 11th grade. They were sort of confusing at first, but we worked a few things out and then something happened, apparently I was kicked off the yearbook team by our principle and then I thought that was crazy because I was in charge of the whole thing, but then the 2 guys, didn't want me to get upset about it, so they tried to make me stay, but I refused, so I handed in all the yearbook data, and just let them work on it.

Excuse me, but honestly their outcome was pure and utter shit. I'm not even going to buy a copy of it, cause it's THAT bad. It was just SO badly done. 

However, we're hoping that this year, we won't have any interruptions or another revolution, so that we can have a pretty neat school yearbook.

Well, this feels almost pointless, but what the hey.

2 meter Kebap!

We went out to dinner with the family in Kadikoy(Anatolia-Asian side) It took us a wee while to get there. 
First we had to take the subway from Levent, to Taksim, from Taksim to Kabatas, and from Kabatas we took a Ferry to Kadikoy, then Kadikoy to Kartal. I even managed to take a nap on the way, and when I woke up I said ''Good Lord, I traveled all around Istanbul, just to eat a damn Kebap, it better be worth it!''
I forgot the name of the restaurant, however, this place is famous for it's extremely large Kebaps.  The size depends on how many people your table has. Our Kebap was about 2meters long. We were 10 people, so each person got about 20cm of Kebap!

It was SO delish! SO DAMN WORTH IT!

:)

Happy Belated New Year!

Okay, I know I'm five days too late, but I've been a little bit busy, studying and shopping, you know trying to make the most out of my last days in Istanbul.

For NYE, my sister, our friends and I planned to go to a street party. We were told to avoid Taksim Square because i'ts like douche-bag-central on NYE. So we crossed that off our list. Then there were a bunch of other places like Nistantasi or some club, but then we forgot all about those places as my aunt invited us to dinner, and we thought it would be rude if we didn't go.
We had this delicious dinner! Turkish food obviously, and we had some really good roasted turkey! Gosh, my mouth is watering as I write this.
  

Turkey Time!

My cousin, Gurcan and I :)

We had Pumpkin cake for dessert, YUM!

After this delicious meal, we all slipped into a food coma. The house went quiet for a bit, then we all gained conscientiousness again, and it was time for the countdown, and that's of course, the power went out in the last 5 seconds of 2011, it wasn't too long before they were back on.

I certainly made no resolutions this year, I make some every year, but never end up doing them, so I think I'm just going to stick to my old ones, and try to accomplish those, before making new ones.

Well guys, have a happy New Year, let's hope 2012 is better than 2011 :)