The toilet seat is the greatest invention known to man

So some of you may know that I wasn't in the best of moods last week and rightly so.... I had a 101 fever a couple nights and to top it off I had some G.I. issues that I will spare you all the details of. But I will say that Turkish toilets are annoying me so much that I have contemplated different ways to make a toilet that reminds me of home...

If you don't know what a Turkish toilet is I recommend googling it right now...

Okay so now you know. I figure if i can find a chair or a stool of some sort I can solve all my problems with the help of my fancy Swiss army knife that Pat and Beth hooked me up with (thanks to Beth's parents ;-) I guess I never realized how much I appreciated that porcelain seat i have been sitting on all these years. Well enough of that shit, I'm sure you would all like to hear a little about what I am doing huh?

Basically it is a bunch of language training every day which will last up until the end of November at which point we travel to our final site and stay with a new host family. By the way my current host family is really nice I have 2 brothers, a sister, and a mom that worries about my health 24/7. Anytime I go into the main room she is offering me tea or some other delicious meal. I finally communicated that I am not fasting (its Ramadan here) therefore I do not need to eat their 3 meals in addition to my 3 meals. Regardless I am still forced to eat them because if I dont i think my host mom would cry. But its all good, people are friendly and the town is beautiful.

sorry i havent wrote much but come December i should have more Internet access

Bis lama!!
Brian