Chapter 3- Tallinn, A Winter’s Tale

It was time to go to my ESC project, which I had been waiting for years and had been applying for intensively for the last six months. On the morning of 3rd January, I went to Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport with my sister and brother. Before I went to Tallinn, I had an antigen test […]

The fear of the unknown is an interesting thing. Why are we scared of something that we have so little knowledge about? The fear will cloud our judgment and make us act out of emotion. I had about half a year time to develop a fear of the east of Turkey. A goal of my […]

A method of traveling that I have never tried before: Hitchhiking. The concept is rather simple: Stand on the side of a road, put your thumb out and wait for a car that can give you a lift in your direction. In this blog I want to share my experiences with hitchhiking and what I […]

Merhaba, nasılsın? Hello everyone, as you can see, I try to improve my Turkish every day. Two weeks ago I passed the A1 level exam and I can say that it was very difficult. Actually not only that, my whole month is so hard for me. The thing is, with the internship, I was trying […]

I fell in love with the east of Turkey. But how did I end up here?  Before  Already at the beginning, I was sure that I want to see as much as possible from Türkiye and maybe even the neighboring countries. It was one of the reasons for me to do a year of voluntary service. […]

Izmir. At one point it was just another city. A city which I would probably never visit. Never learn what it could offer to me and what it would maybe hide. A city like all the others I never imagined seeing or living (or even heard of). But despite this Izmir now started to become […]

I always wanted to experience living abroad since my early 10s. It was February, snowy and cold outside. I was sitting at my desk and searching on media how is it living abroad like, as always I do on the internet. On that day I found a video on youtube, about European Solidarity Corps, then […]

Since 2016, I have attended various youth exchanges and training courses representing Pi Youth Association. Being an ESC volunteer was always something in my mind, but I was waiting for the right time. 2017 was the year of an amazing beginning for me. I started working in a lending society thanks to the score I […]

”Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, serving as the country’s economic, cultural, and historic hub. Istanbul is the most populous European city and the world’s 15th-largest city. […] The city served as an imperial capital for almost 1600 years […] The city grew in size and influence, eventually becoming a beacon of the Silk Road and one of […]

In the third week of April, I and the other volunteers had several holidays due to Easter. So, we decided after some time to go on a long trip again and our chosen destination, therefore, was Istanbul, and we could finally visit the largest city in Turkey. None of us had been there before, but […]