We were driving home today and decided to visit part of my school's land. I heard there was a lake down this road, and I was in for a shock.
It was like a door into another world.
There was a sign and a road next to the TV station. We traveled down this road with trees on one side and the company complex on the other. And then, we broke through the hump in the hill to the hills of Anatolia. There's no plain that I've seen. Our road rested on a ridge of a hill that gradually let us down. We could see deep valleys on either side and the big lake at the bottom.
Some houses and some shanties were scattered along the valley. I will have to go back with a camera because it always is too much to take in with my eyes. It's never what i expect: A beautiful concrete mansion with peach trees and a concrete fence and wire running around the perimeter. A shed with a concrete fence running around the perimeter. A wire fence with some chickens and turkeys. A go-cart track. A chalet-type house. An American style house complete with a front porch. Some men standing by their vehicle, eating, watching their cows forage through the grass and garbage in the area. A wood and tin shack built on the hill in a space dug out against the hill like you would if you were camping and hiking through the same area.
I had an school ID card to get into the private lake area, it was the first time we tried it, and we were a little surprised it worked as the school is pretty strict about the IDs. We travelled around the lake stopping at an old ottoman house for tea alongside the lake.
It smelled like Minnesota.
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