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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.
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-08
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
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...
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-01
From a girl on my soccer team: you play soccer pretty well for an engineer. # At a carnival in texas, someone invented a new food: deep fried butter. I challenge anyone to come up with something more unhealthy. # According to the economist, texas is ...
The Best Food in Southeast Texas: Part III
Notice all the basil? I finally had to harvest my basil. It was getting too big. A lot of pesto will be coming once I find a recipe that I like. For now, my freezer is full of basil (there was a lot of basil from the other two basil harvests). I cann...
Sigma Nu semi formal
This past Saturday I went to the local Sigma Nu chapter’s formal dinner. After having gator wrestled with one of the brothers, Austin, I became a bit of a celebrity. The brothers had all seen the video, and the ones I hadn’t met knew me. ...
Oil Refineries
Nearly all commerce/industry in this area are either refineries or refinery support service. Other than that, everything is pretty basic. Restaurants, malls, gas stations. Nothing spectacular. Anyway here are two pictures. I work at the refinery on t...


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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