I don’t know what happened to my friend Omer. I haven’t seen him on Facebook for many days. Did I tell u I went to the Turkish Consulate on Wed. for the Bayram celebration? I was dressed in bluejeans because I had spent all day showing a Turk visiting from Miami on the Staten Island ferry and if I went home to the Bronx just to change I would have just enough time to turn around and go back to Manhattan.So when I got to the consulate I was so embarrassed to see that almost all the men wore suits and jackets. It was a very formal event but everyone was clustered around me to look at the wad of photos I had taken of Turkey during the past 40 years, including places in odd corners of Turkey that most of them had never been to. Everyone wanted to introduce me to everyone else and my attempts to speak Turkish helped.
I don’t know what happened to my friend Omer. I haven’t seen him on Facebook for many days. Did I tell u I went to the Turkish Consulate on Wed. for the Bayram celebration? I was dressed in bluejeans because I had spent all day showing a Turk visiting from Miami on the Staten Island ferry and if I went home to the Bronx just to change I would have just enough time to turn around and go back to Manhattan.So when I got to the consulate I was so embarrassed to see that almost all the men wore suits and jackets. It was a very formal event but everyone was clustered around me to look at the wad of photos I had taken of Turkey during the past 40 years, including places in odd corners of Turkey that most of them had never been to. Everyone wanted to introduce me to everyone else and my attempts to speak Turkish helped.