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Conrad's Blog - An American Life in Istanbul

Conrad's Blog - An American Life in Istanbul

http://conradwoodring.com

This blog is a record of my life in Turkey as an American. I focus mostly on my interactions with Turkish culture and the divide between east and west.

Recent Posts

  • The Best Food in Southeast Texas: Part IV

    Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 20:31 in texas, food, Wine, hookah

    Mucver (a turkish food), fried tofu with satay sauce, and fried fava beans with garlic and cumin. It was super yummy! The pinor noir from the bliss winery. Very good. Rather than use the clay piece on top of my hookah, I carved out a grape fruit and ...

  • Ready for Work!

    Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 20:10 in texas, work, safety

    So this is me on an almost typical day at work. In order I am wearing: A. Dark safety glasses. Before 8am and on night shifts we cannot wear the dark ones. They obviously protect your eyes from flying debris. We are also required to have goggles on u...

  • Southeast Texas Bag Pipe Band

    Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 20:08 in music, texas, irish, beaumont, bag pipe

    I am not joking. There is a bag pipe band based out of Beaumont, Texas. I thought it was crazy too. When I heard about it I thought it was a joke or a trick, but sure enough, they exist. Saturday night I went to Mackenzie’s Irish Pub in Beaumon...

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-15

    Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 22:10 in texas, twitter, tweets

    Today we moved a 120ft tall 150ton reactor up .25'' removed supports, then lowered it .5'' using only steel wedges and mallets. # Powered by Twitter Tools...

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-08

    Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 22:10 in texas, twitter, tweets

    There was a death at work yesterday. # Ugh… I have to work on saturday. # I feel so adult. I went and looked at houses tonight. # There is a designated squirrel hunting season in texas. # On fox news today: government is a threat to freedom. # ...

  • Halloween in Beaumont

    Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 19:45 in texas

    This year for Halloween I got dressed up and went with friends to see Ben’s former band, The Scraps, play a show. I went to several of their shows before they broke up this past summer – one of their band members moved out of the area. On...

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I ADORE ISTANBUL! It makes Paris or NYC look SO provincial! THE TOP of everything! AND SO CHIC! LOVE THE PEOPLE TOO! LOVE YOU! Pascal.

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