I was sketching the Hagia Sofia from the south, with huge tour busses pulling up and discharging behind me very minimally in the back of my consciousness. tony walking up and asking 'has he been watching you the whole time?' was startling, some bus driver was indeed staring very intently at my drawing. had just a little left, and sketching must be fascinating to turks, because two other boys came up as i was finishing and started talking. i figured they would probably drift away and ignored them, letting tony interact, but they were persistant and very friendly and we ended up talking to them for a long time. They were overly anxious to be hospitable and talk up their country, it was a little strange - we definatly wouldn't do that for our country. Maybe our immediate area though. They were generous with their chips (dorito-ish) and cookies! whoa best food discovery of the trip was their little bags of cookies.... they were both ahmets, an english teacher and a math major... the english teacher was rather more confident, although not necessarily better in his english. boys, 18, weird to be running into younger people in travels. drank the traditional apple tea in the traditional tea-cups/saucers.... fun and practical combination. they dearly wanted a picture, so here is perhaps the only posed picture you get.... rather a bad one, shrug. wall in the back is of the hagia sofia's gardens.
I was sketching the Hagia Sofia from the south, with huge tour busses pulling up and discharging behind me very minimally in the back of my consciousness. tony walking up and asking 'has he been watching you the whole time?' was startling, some bus driver was indeed staring very intently at my drawing. had just a little left, and sketching must be fascinating to turks, because two other boys came up as i was finishing and started talking. i figured they would probably drift away and ignored them, letting tony interact, but they were persistant and very friendly and we ended up talking to them for a long time. They were overly anxious to be hospitable and talk up their country, it was a little strange - we definatly wouldn't do that for our country. Maybe our immediate area though. They were generous with their chips (dorito-ish) and cookies! whoa best food discovery of the trip was their little bags of cookies.... they were both ahmets, an english teacher and a math major... the english teacher was rather more confident, although not necessarily better in his english. boys, 18, weird to be running into younger people in travels. drank the traditional apple tea in the traditional tea-cups/saucers.... fun and practical combination. they dearly wanted a picture, so here is perhaps the only posed picture you get.... rather a bad one, shrug. wall in the back is of the hagia sofia's gardens. 
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