apartment etc
July 17, 2004
now i have an apartment
real estate agent fee: 750,000,000 TL = $500
rent: 550,000,000 TL = nearly $ 400
deposit: $500
i am grateful to my parents who are very helpful. We need to do some painting and cleaning before moving in...
Good news. Ebru and Eric are coming to Istanbul next week!
July 16, 2004
Finally some relief!
Several issues have been bothering me recently and i even began to ignore this online diary (and in general, everything in my life)
First of all, i will sign the contract for my apartment tomorrow! Yes, i finally made it. i have been living like a nomad since i arrived here and i have been postponing some of the research stuff because i wasn't settled yet.
Secondly, I began to live problems of 'studying up'. last week i had two appointment with well-known journalists. i wasn't that successful in expressing my research objectives but they weren't interested in at all! Today, i had a good and productive chat with Prof. Ugur. Hopefully, next week he will introduce me NTV's and Referans' chief editors. He also discussed my objectives so he will look/negotiate for a position for me accordingly! And in a less determinate future, he will talk to Ertugrul Ozkok, chief editor of Hurriyet, about me. So far, this newspaper, which is very significant for my research objectives, has been inaccessible for me...
