Sunday, 11 August, 2013; 9:20 PM; Airport
We're two hours from the departure time, and I'm really excited. I think I'm the sort of traveller who only gets really excited when they're actually at the airport, through security, and listening to the random little girls playing with their dolls and such. Or it could just be the fact that I missed about half the meetings because, you know, school. Anyway, we're here, and I'm EXCITED.
We're doing a different sort of adventure from in Turkey than the one we did in Peru. This is so much more of a culture/ history thing. It's not much of an outdoorsy, danger (ha), hiking type of thing. Of course, while the whole thing is an adventure, the history in Istanbul is recorded so far back, whereas in Peru there's no recorded writing from that far back. There's pottery from 8000 BC, but there's no alphabet type of thing.
Istanbul, on the other hand, has been a center of the Roman empire and the Greeks before them. It started as Byzantium in 667 BC, named after the leader, Byzas, of the colonists from Megara. The next name change happened in the reign of Constantine, in 330 AD, who named it Constantinople and the centre of the Roman empire.
(Starbucks run. Back later)
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