hippies, free bracelets, and more conversation!

so i finished class this afternoon and decided to head to my normal coffee shop, which ended up being closed..... so, we went to this other cafe i pass all the time.. it's called Agape Cafe, and it has two signs: 1 that is a light up sign with a nargile and coffee cup and 1 that is in big rainbow bubble letters.. ha! so naturally, i HAD to try it some time.. so why not now since i had a guy to go with me.

so, we go in the door, down a hallway with small shops and then up these sketchy stairs and into the cafe...i walk in first and it's all guys and it's smoky.. which we expected

so we go in and sit at this booth and then the guy asks what we want and we ordered cay and then when he came back we had already pulled out our notes to study and our ipods and he starts talking to j and there's a girl behind me at another booth...so he starts talking away in only turkish and we are trying our best to follow and respond

then the girl turns around and says "i want to give you this bracelet as a gift" in tukish...it was one she made. and i love the colors! it's like multi colored and pretty sweet...then she gave j one too.. same one, so now we look like we have friendship bracelets..even better. haha.

and so we ended up talking to them and like 4 other people or an hour and a half 98% in Turkish about what our jobs were and our family and stuff...and ya.. definitely hippies and i loved it

so later after we left, j said stuff like that happens to him a ton here and he said "does it not happen to you? and i was like "NO! if it's guys they dont talk to me bc im a girl if its a girl and a guy, she's interested in talking to the guy, not me, if it's 2 or more girls, they have people to talk to, and if it's one girl, she's probably independent enough she doesnt want to talk to anyone or she would be WITH someone...

so, yeah. it was cool.. and i got a pretty sweet bracelet out of it too!

then, at tea time, a girl i've been trying to talk to more sat by me and we talked a lot.. she's coming over for lunch tomorrow afternoon and i'm excited! she tried to encourage me in my language by saying i need to SPEAK it more (true).. so she suggested we meet once or twice a week.. she said we'll speak turkish one hour and then we can speak english 1 hour and so on.. sweet!! i have been really hoping for this, so lets continue hoping it plays out... :)