Sphere:

It's a warm pre-summer night, sun has gone down early and the darkness is spreading its blanket over the sands.

That's because the french dinner contains less fat than the anatolian prepared meat
but i prefer a bit of fat i guess? The french women are so skinny. Skinny = no fun!

Or maybe Turkish men should work harder in bed (tho i think there will be many girls out there begging their men to please stop )

But the question was about characteristics Not looks

Doesn't your boyfriend speak Dutch? Then i could translate for you now Tho i understand if thats not allowed in a TurkishClass.

In real life you get sent to the principal if you do something else than studying the subject of ur current lesson

Well said, Ramayan.. very well!! Don't we have a TurkishClass day

But i still wish everybody a Happy Valentine and may you find the present that you want to give

Hello dear Sophie

I didn't mean to hurt anyone either and with holiday-resort-man i definitely didnt mean your love Just to put the record straight

Now that i think of it, it's really difficult to answer such a question. Because, as you said, it really just concerns you in your story, me in my story. I think the only way to really get an answer for yourself, is to have one yourself.

I wonder what love actually is. But in the same time i realise it's a thing we cannot speak right about. Who knows what it is? What word will be capable of telling? Let's just keep on writing poems about what we all feel and leave love to love

I'm not too fond of Valentine's Day myself, but that's probably because in Holland it has become VERY commercial. In every shop you find silly cheap teddybears with hearts saying 'I love you'. It's like giving such a teddybear has made it unneccesary to show your affection daily, here in Holland. From many girls i hear that they have a great day with Valentine's Day, but that their men are not so loving and caring during other days. So because of that i am not too fond of it myself. A lover needs no day to show love But i must say, i do like it more since the Turkish name Also because i found AMAZING love-chocolats in one of the shops here

At my school we can send roses to our friends in the week before valentine. You buy a card, write something on it, plus their name and class.. and they order it to them. I use them to let me friends know i love them. Therefore i like flowers most as a valentine's gift: they are not commercial, but just beautiful and pure the way they are.

I really don't see why you can't send a man flowers for Valentines'Day I think especially over distance, this is a wonderful present!

Yes, but.. not to hurt anyone up here.. but how can love be love if you are not sure? When you start a romance-affair with a holidayresort-man.. do you love that guy? Or do you love being loved? Because if that's so, ofcourse the waiting is hard. It's easy to love over distance. But it's quite difficult to show and to feel the other's love over it. So if you are not totally sure, the waiting gets too hard.

I quote Shakespeare:
"Love is not love as it alters when it alteration finds"

(im not sure if this is literally, but it comes VERY close )


Maybe I'm just being overromantic, I don't know
But believe me.. i know the distance by now.. I cried too many nights in my cold lonely bed, i skipped too many classes at school because i lost the point in it, i spent hours and hours laying on my bedroom floor, staring at the sky, remembering all the things that we came across together. And now I'm looking at hte calender, seeing that it's almost two years ago we met.. and i cry for all the things we haven't done yet. But i smile for all that is laying ahead of you.

If you learn to control the distance, distance-love that ends like mine, is probably better than an around-the-corner-love. For the simple fact we have another dimension in our relationship: we learnt to talk. we learnt to use words. we don't speak eachothers bodylanguage yet, but at least we know what we mean when we just talk. Many 'normal' relationships end, because people became unable to speak.

Kadir and i built love upon many words. Made love with many words. We can talk. We cannot date like normal couples. I never had a clothing-crisis, because he has never come to pick me up for dinner. I never went to school with the excited feeling of going out for a dance with him tonight. But one day i will

If i look back so far (how dramatic does that sound ), i remember all the fun moments on the phone, the sweet sms and the nice loooong conversations on msn better and more, than the nights spend alone.

Well, at least i wish everybody luck with his/her long distance love.

It's most of all a matter of having faith in yourself, not only in the other. When you live together, 'I and YOU' becomes 'US and WE'. If you live apart, 'US and WE is still I and YOU'. So you need to have faith in yourself as well!!