{"id":7420,"date":"2024-10-04T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=7420"},"modified":"2024-10-08T14:08:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T11:08:43","slug":"the-international-chronicles-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=7420","title":{"rendered":"The International Chronicles\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BY MAH\u0130R HASSAN M\u0130AN (ECON\/II) <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name: <\/strong>Mohammed Ehsan Ullah Shareef        <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Department: <\/strong>CTIS        <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country of Origin: <\/strong>India <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What were your first impressions about T\u00fcrkiye?  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a lot of walking \u2014 \u0130stanbul Airport wasn\u2019t easy on my legs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you like best about Bilkent and T\u00fcrkiye?  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The people. I can\u2019t repeat myself again on this one. The weather might get cold but the people always have a smile for you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What will you miss most about Bilkent\/T\u00fcrkiye? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Averaging 10,000 steps daily. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s your favorite place on campus, and why? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Study room in the CTIS building; it defeats the library. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s your favorite Turkish food and why?  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baklava. I am not a fan of sweets, but this tastes so good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where do you expect to see yourself 10 years from now?  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A more fulfilled person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s one thing you learned from Turkish culture?  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I learned it in my Turkish class: spray kolonya and offer the guests sheker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What places have you visited in T\u00fcrkiye, and which one is your favorite? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ankuva is the only place I have visited so far, and I loved it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s an interesting question or comment you hear frequently at Bilkent\/in T\u00fcrkiye? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBilkent is so hard.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Describe yourself in three words. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go do it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY MAH\u0130R HASSAN M\u0130AN (ECON\/II)  Name: Mohammed Ehsan Ullah Shareef         Department: CTIS         Country of Origin: India  What were your first impressions about T\u00fcrkiye?   There is a lot of walking \u2014 \u0130stanbul Airport wasn\u2019t easy on my legs.  What do you like best about Bilkent and T\u00fcrkiye?   The people. I can\u2019t[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[168,83,164],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7447,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420\/revisions\/7447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}