The past few days we have been going over to our company office doing some orientation stuff to help our time in country. We actually have to cross over to Asia every morning (Istanbul is the only city in world that spans two continents, Asia and Europe). It is about an hour commute that consists of a 1/4 mile walk to the bus stop, a bus ride another bus stop, a metro bus across the Bosphorus Strait, and the about a 2 mile walk to our office. Yesterday was the only day it wasn't raining and today on the way home it was snowing. I can't say I am going to miss that commute at all. We start language lessons Monday and practice Tuesday night. I am really excited about both things. I really want to be able to communicate a little bit and football is always fun. Below are some random photos since I took since we went to the church.

These are from an awesome downtown coffee shop called The Cherry Bean. It was a good day to chill and enjoy each others company.

The first picture is of doners. they are delicious meat wraps. The pretzel looking thing is a simit and the others are roasted chestnuts which are not very good.

These are all random city shots that I liked. all of the spires are mosques

The first is my roommate Matt at a doner stand and the last three are snow pictures from today in the city. We also had a huge random power outage in Turkey for almost two hours.