so, having decided (somewhat whimsically) to stay in istanbul after finding a job teaching (bilingual international) preschool, sar and i have set up shop, found an apartment (entirely sarah's doing), wandered the neighborhood (we even have "our vegetable man" who sells us wonderfully cheap and delicious cucumbers and tomatoes, always throwing in a little extra sweet pepper or parsley - or both!), and things are slowly, slowly falling into place.
it still feels sometimes as if this all is a hallucination - especially when moving across bridges over the bosphorous, taking the ferry to the european side, wandering during late nights in taksim, walking (and watching) up bahariye street on the way home from work, reflecting on the call to prayer...
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