We arrived safely in Istanbul about 5 pm local time Monday. I flew here with one of my roommates and teammates and met the third when we we landed. We are living in a nice little apartment some where in Istanbul. The only problem is there are five of us in the house right now so things are a little crowded. We napped a little and tried to stay up to watch the national championship which started at 3:30 am (we get ESPN American, God is good). Long story short we woke up at noon today and went to sight see running off of about 6 hours of sleep in the last two days. We went to what used to be a church, then a mosque, and now a tourist sight. It was built in 540ish AD and it was awesome. We met up with some other students who are here teaching English and had a lot of fun getting to know each other and being out of place together. If I can ever get my sleep cycle back normal I think I will be awesome.