My last 10 hours in Istanbul

I lost a bunch of CD's of some mathematical software, including SPSS, Prentice Hall mathematics texts' online versions and Geometer's sketchpad full edition. I searched over the house over and over again, even checked under my bed. They just disappeared. There isn't much to do, I guess I have to admit that I lost them.

Packing up is always a bit painful for me. Deciding what to take, what to leave home is really a difficult issue. This time it was harder than last year since my flat in lausanne will be unfurnished. Still, Switzerland is only 2 hours away from Istanbul, and flights with (Turkish version) are really cheap if you book in advance. It goes down to 50 Euros for one way ticket between Istanbul and Basel.

This was good to know, aye? Meaning, I don't have to take everything with me this time. I must survive at least until October break, which coincides with Ramazan this year than I am most likely to come back, actually in two months and will take the rest of my stuff. Meanwhile, I'll aclimitise myself to Lausanne weather.

I am taking one bag with me only; enourmous in size but still only one suitcase. Plus, of course my books and shoes in two other hand luggages. It will still be somehow difficult to carry all that stuff considering my partially disabled left-hand. By the way, I've had a small surgery last week. It seems to me that I'll need some time before it goes back to normal and function fully. I actually shouldn't have left this to the last week of my one-month stay in Istanbul. I didn't want to postpone it any further but no one had told me it would take so long to recover.

I am most thankful to my mom, and my sister; since they did most of the job. One important difference worth mentioning this time is "EasyBag" or SpaceBag. It is a nylon bag to save from space that is normally filled with air between your clothes. I warn you, you save from space but you may damage your bag, if you overload it. This contradicts to what the manfucturer claims, they say it decreases the overall weight of the suitcase, but I'll disagree. Indeed, on the contrary, more space means heavier bags, because unfortunately our clothes are not lighter than air, I wish they would. Learn more about this great innovation in travel here, click on the pic.

You can buy Space Bag in Turkey from this page (best deal) or from Cagri Supermarkets as we did for ~10 YTL per bag.

Turkish Space Bag.

Enough advertising; let me tell you what will happen tomorrow. Somebody will pick me up from Geneva airport, since I changed my return ticket to Geneva instead of Casablanca when I first bought it in Morocco. Then, I will pick my keys from the school and start the paperwork and bank account, telephone arrangements right away.

I should be able to write more tomorrow. All I can do now is to hope everything will be in order during the coming days, starting from tomorrow.