Sønderborg, Denmark

Hello my dears!

So after a one-month-long break I'm back here to announce you that I'm still alive. :]

So this time I'm writing you from Sønderborg, Denmark... You may ask what I'm doing here, as most of you already know I'm studying European Studies here... It seems I'm going to have nice and unforgetable time here... So far I still can't understand I did it again - changed the country of living... Sometimes I'm asking myself why I do this, why I move so often... well I'm still thinking how to formulatte the answer...

My impression about Denmark? People? Feelings?

I would say strange... Taking in consideration all the countries I was living in... do know why it is hard for me here at the moment... It seems to me I'm tired of getting to know new people... I hardly remember their names and what they do here... But maybe it's temporary feeling. Anyway I'm going to live here 3 years.

2nd feeling I have here - I feel old. Well as you know I almost have a bachelor degree in Tourism Management and here in Sønderborg at the Southern University of Denmark I'm going to study one more bachelor. So most of the students here are like 4-3-2 years younger than me... I'm not used to that... Usually I was in touch with older or same age ppl and now the situation got into the melting-pot... But I think it can be adopted as well...

I still don't have any impression of Denmark... It's only my 3rd day here and all I saw was a silent downtown, couple of supermarkets [Bilka, Aldi, Kvickleys, Spar $ Lidl] and my university... But it seems it gonna be nice experiance to live here.

I'm IN!!!

Hello my dear friends!

I just wanted to inform you that today I got the answer from the Southern University of Denmark informing me I'm accepted for the European Studies! So I'm starting to pack my things and on Saturday morning I'm leaving Kemer! It's long way to Lithuania! Cheers! Hope to meet you soon! Somewhere!

Oscar

I'm back! I burned my T-Shirt

My dear friends!

I'm very sorry for not writing for a long time! I did not disappear! I'm actually still in the same old Turkey, in the same room in Kemer! Ofcourse a lot of things happened since I was here last time, I can't even all of them remember but anyway I'm fine and probably this is what you want to know! :). Anyway... probably only some of you know that it might be one of the last days I'm working for my company "AKAY" (www.akaytour.com). Tomorrow is the day when I'll realise about acceptance or refusal for the first university I applied. This is the University of Southern Denmark (www.sdu.dk)... So if they accept me at the same moment I'm packing my things and quiting my job from the 1st August... To be honest I miss Lithuania, my familly, my friends a lot... I miss a lot my freedom to travel, to move all the time, I miss my spontaneity... I feel a bit stucked in Turkey... I need to follow the rules which sometimes aren't acceptable for me... it's hard but as all my friends are saying c'est la vie... It's time to change, it's time to move, it's time be alive, it's time to be Oscar again.
Anyway you probably still don't know but I'm living in the same room together with another guide from Latvia - Juris. I thaught it gonna be a problem, but acctualy it is not... So today accidentaly I proved himself and myself that I'm dumber and he is only dump... I was ironing my uniform and accidentaly I left the iron on the t-shirt... Ofcourse you all know what happenes if you leave the iron on the clothes... So I have a nice mark on my back of the t-shirt.... But Juris told me this is the sign that I'm leaving very soon! :) I hope it's like he says...
Anyway my darlings... I still didn't mentioned that I won't go so easy - by plane - back home to Lithuania... I decided to go by land visiting nice countries and cities such as Istanbul (Turkey), Thessaloniki (Greece), Skopje (Macedonia), Prishtina (Kosovo), Tirana and Shkoder (Albania), Podgorica (Montenegro), Sarajevo (Bosnia Hercegovina), Zagreb and Rijeka (Croatia), Venice and Padova (Italy), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Budapest (Hungary), Banska Bistryca (Slovakia), Cracow and Warsaw (Poland)... Well my plan can change depending on the situation... well maybe all kind of situtations.... Anyway if you are in one of these cities or you want to meet me contact me... If you can host me it would be more than superb! :) To all of you I promisse to announce the most important moments from my trip by land! All of you who wants to see more photos from my life in Turkey please check the www.facebook.com/oskaras.

Best wishes and good luck!

Your Oscar

Dikkat! Oscar var

Attention! There is Oscar!

Look who is living and taking care of the lemon tries next to my hotel. As far as I know (the bar attendant - Tiger (strange name) - told me) the dog is living now in Istanbul. Tiger told as well that dog is black and big, and has a huge head... :] In told to my office that I'm going to have this sign on my door very soon!

Enjoy!

Eurovision and strawberry pie

Hello to everyone!

Sorry for not writing for quite a long time! :) So a lot of things happened since my last post was published. I don't remember all of the details which happened during last 2 weeks but I'll try to express about some of them...
First of all EUROVISION... This year I was watching Eurovision in a big restaurant called Tropicano here in Kemer. It was fun! I'm very happy about the winner, he was one of my favourites from the very beginning - cheerful song, handsome guy, magnificent and at the same time simple performance. I'm proud that Baltic States gave 12 points to Norway as well, I think this year Eurovision was quite fair... Anyways my favourites did quite well. I love Estonian and Icelandic songs as well. ahh... When I heared Estonian song I felt soooooooo Estonian for a minute, I miss a bit this country and people, this calm and ordinary, planned life... I was a bit sad about Portugal, I think they were suppose to be in a bit higher position, anyway Lithuania didn't do that good as well but it looked very proffesional... About Azerbaijan, I felt a big preassure from Turkish and Azeri people to admit that the song was brilliant, I'm sorry guys it's not my type of song and I wouldn't vote for it...
In conclusion I hope that after Turkey didn't do that well in Eurovision they are going to stop to play Hadise every 5 minutes... After listening that song 10th time in a row I felt really sick. It's good song, but in Lithuania we have kind of expression: "That what is too much is unhealthy".

2nd thing what I mostly remember from my last too weeks is a strawberry pie... Do not think that I'm obsessed by the strawberries... As you probably all know I'm eating in a hotel called Astoria... And mostly Russians are eating there... Well I'm sorry again talking about Russian ethical culture (I have Russian blood as well too so it is not intolerance or Russiaphobia)... So what happened when I entered the restaurant I saw a wonderful pie with a lot of red, fresh strawberries on it... After I ate my hot dish I was ready to take a piece of the pie... And what happened... The pie was still there... but without strawberries on it!!! :O and still one woman was collecting the last strawberries around... I was totally shocked and woman saw my embarrassment in my eyes but she discomfited for a while and was continueing to take the last strawberries...

Some nice thing happened yesterday... Finally I started to sell excursion to the customers as well. It means I'm going to earn a bit more... My first clients were Romanians... unfortunatelly they didn't buy anything... But still it's a good step after a while...

Kisses to everyone I miss you a lot!

Your Oscar

Strawberries

İyi günler, arkadaşlaram!

Officialy today I'm dead... And I have right to be!!! Why?!? These last two days I was working as a donkey [it's the Lithuanian expression describing hard work]... I'm just wondering how can I still be so powerful and smile to everyone wishing pleasant stay in Turkey or flight... [joke from yesterday conversation: "atrabotinaj" smile (for Russian speakers it will be clear)]... My Russian is getting better and better every day, but I'm doing such a funny mistake :D :D :D... So why am I dead? Well everything started yesterday morning (oooh long time ago :) ) I woke up at 4:30 AM in order to do departure tranfer for Lithuanians... And... later arrival transfer for Lithuanians... So I was back to office at around 1:30 PM... I managed somehow to get something to eat and then at 4:00 I was going to give an excursion for mixed group of Latvians and Lithuanians... Since my Russian is not so good and my creed doesn't aloud to speak to Latvians and Lithuanians in Russian I was giving information in two languages (Latvian+Lithuanian)... Believe me it was hard and tirening...
So my first ever excursion went quite well and it seems people were happy... Anyway from excursion we can back at around 2:20 AM and after ten minutes I was already in my bed... And guess what at 6 in the morning I was suppose to do transfer from the airport! Nice no?!

Anyways I'm even starting not to think what I'm writing here... I'm just happy I got finally in touch with some other guides from my company and I have with whom to talk and we even found some things in common! I'm trying to be as I'm = nice :D :D :D

Soooo... but I think i know who charged me with some extra energy... It were strawberries which I got from cute Lithuanian guide! I was so happy to taste this soury-sweet berry first time this year... Mmh...

Anyways my dear friends! Kisses! And Hugs :) and all other warm expressions which makes you happy!

I love you, I love you not! :)

Your Oscar Türkiz :) :)
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Sunshine after the rain...

Hello my dear people I love! :)

It takes the bun, but we had 2 days of strong rain here in the region of Antalya... I know that in Lithuania it was even warmer than in Turkey (amazing, no?!?!?). And in Lithuania poor people don't have rain already for more than one month. Lucky you! :) But anyway after the rain everything looks fresh, even the people started to smile brighter and to be nicer. :)

So on Sunday I had day-off and I decided to go to Antalya to visit my new friend Özgür from CouchSurfing.com. Once again I'm happy that something like CS even exists! That day I finally saw the sea, but for me it was still cold to swim... Well I still have enough time for this! :) After wonderful Sunday the rainy Monday came... It was absolutely dark everywhere... I even didn't want to go out from my tidy, warm hotel room... Anyways... in order to get some stuff for my stomach I kicked out myself from the hotel (believe me, I was really thinking better to suffer but not to go out)... Later in the office it turned out that I have one more day-off... I was absolutely wondering how it can be, but anyway... it is still not a high-season and there isn't that much work to do... So in general I spent the whole day in my room... I was so lazy... My luggage was still unpacked and my clothes were all around it... But I really didn't have enough power to tidy everything away... Anyways... In the evening I got the phone call from Ismael saying that on Tuesday I need to be in the office at 5:00 AM... It means I need to wake up at 4:30... Well I thaught it was good reason to go to sleep earlier! I was NEVER doing it before in Lithuania or even ARMENIA... Well maybe I'm chaning to a good side??? Who knows, we will see in 6 months :)
Tuesday morning... it was awful... a lot of rain drops were still falling on the slippery white paver. It was silent all around the hotel except the drops falling into puddles... So I made my transfer together with some Turkish boy called Asi or Isa... He told he is studying Tourism in Antalya, well he looked not older than 17... Anyways it was nice to talk with him, at least I got to talk to someone... Everyone is so busy around me... In the airport I met my friend Özgür... It was his first day at his work, and what a coincidence he was cheking-in the passengers flying to Vilnius, so we got some 30 minutes to talk about the life and "wonderful" weather in Antalya. Later I met tourists who came for holidays... Haha they didn't seem to be very happy because of the weather conditions... I felt quite exhausted to talk with every second person from the plane about the weather in Turkey... I just smiled and wished a pleasent stay in Turkey... Mamma mia...

So today is Wednesday and I have day-off again... I still don't know about tomorrow... But I kinda feeling I'm going tomorrow to the airport again... :) It means I need to go to sleep today quite early :) anyways I like this kind of transfers, I need just to smile and to answer some questions... All other texts are recorded into the CD :) So basicly I'm announcing only the name of the hotels... Today I finally unpacked... I put all my clothes into the cupboard. It looks much nicer now and my room became even more bigger!

Today I got an invitation from Özgür to go to celebrate some Turkish fest called "Hıdırellez" (acctually it's today) on Saturday. I hope I'll have free day it should be nice to meet him and the whole CouchSurfing community on the Lara's beach, to have some BBQ...

By the way for my dear ladies (especially Liena)... Today I found out that I have kind of spider ferm in my room... So I kicked them all out... I didn't kill them, just kicked them out... No injuries were made during this process... But I need to admit that in the night I killed one mosquito who tried to bite my sweet skin... haha bastard... He didn't know I'm stronger when it is... :) OK for now that's it! I'm adding some photos I made on Sunday while I was in Antalya.

Kisses and good luck!

P.S. Thomas-Nicolai please answer to my e-mail!

My new friend Özgür :) Smile to everyone!

First days at work

Hello my dear friends!

So... I'm already 4 days in Kemer and Antalya (everyday since I arrived I'm going to/from Antalya)... So on the first day of my new job I went together with a group and another guide from Latvia to a very nice place called Tahtalı mountain. It's 2365 metres high mountain located near Kemer resort. On 1st May I had my first group from Lithuania. Well it was just a transfer from the airport to the hotels but still the first experiance here in Turkey. Later that day I was going to the excursion called "The Fire of Anatolia", it's an amazing dance performance! I was totally amazed by their dancing abilities and how through the dances they were construed an ancient myth. Amazing! You can see a part of their performance below ( I know it doesn't look that amazing on the video). But it is worth it to see it, to feel it, to live it! :)

Fire Of Anatolia - The funniest home videos are here

Since I was going to do transfer at 5 AM and I was back from the dance performance at 1 AM I went directly to the bed... And next morning I musted to wake up at 6 AM to do the 2nd transfer for the Latvian music band... Hehe it was nice to see known person (a Latvian singer Amber) in my group. I mean the whole group consisted only from the musicians! I'm a bit proud the company asked me to make a transfer for them! Nice people! I'm looking forward to see Amber singing here in Kemer.

So I'm putting now the pictures (I found them on the internet) of where I live and where I eat. I'm living at 2* hotel Etenna near my office and I'm eating in another hotel called Astoria, which is near my office. It's as I understand a Russian owned hotel, so everything there is Russian Russian Russian :) The food is delicious there, but I'm afraid to eat the same food for 6 months :O :O :O

So far I don't have any friends here :( :( I feel a bit looser, but to be honest it's hard to find out what kind of people they really are... But I'm happy at least about that Latvian woman called Rudite, she is nice and explanes me everything I ask. I appreciate it a lot! And she knows sooo much about history and so on! She is really a good guide and I can't believe that someone could say some bad words about her! So this is it! Now I'm going to the office to ask Ismael (he is manager or smth likes this) if I really don't need to do something today or tomorrow :)

By the way I got uniform!!! :) I'll put the photo of it next time :D :D I look a bit funny with it! :)


My breakfast hotel "Astoria" The place I'm living "Etenna hotel"

First steps [more cream - don't touch me]

It was my first day in Antalya... Actually I'm working in Kemer, it's around 50 km from Antalya! Well it's not that far away! :)

So about the flight! I'm totally dissapointed this time with Turkish Airlines stuff... It was better before! First of all after I asked the flight attendant couple of times to give me an extra cream I pointed to her hand... She suddenly turned into my and was screaming "DO NOT TOUCH ME" and throw a bunch of cream packages into me... :O I was shocked... Well it is my mistake as well I touched a married muslim woman, but in another hand she is working in the tourism field where they should understand other traditions and culture... Anyway I felt like a looser...
After we landed it Istanbul I just wanted to escape from the plane... It was raining in Istanbul... It was my second time in Istanbul and both times it was raining... Who said that England is the most rainy country?
The next flight from Istanbul to Antalya was also strange... And again it was because of the cream!!! The guy spoke so poor English that he even didn't understand what I want... :( :( And the final point was in the airport... there were 3 busses next to the plane... And can u imagine they were going to two different terminals! So probably as you already understood I took the wrong bus (me and plus 4 more foreigners: greek, ukrainian, russian and japanese). :D I still can't understand why I was suppose to take another bus... Anyways I took one extra hour to explane everything to go back to the airport territory and so on... Strange strange strange... I arrived in Kemer at around 1:50 AM...
Today in the morning at around 9:00 I went into the office... haha... And there I met only a cleaner... Well after half an hour I met some managers who helped me integrate. I'm happy about the people I met, especially the Latvian guide, she is so nice to me. I hope we gonna communicate quite well the whole time here...
At the moment I'm living alone in the room and I hope it gonna be like this all the time ;) I'll put photos of the room a bit later... :) For now that's it... I need to go to sleep, tomorrow I have my first group arriving from Lithuania :) İyi akşamlar!

With love,
Your Oscar

P.S. I cannot put YouTube videos here, because YouTube is blocked in Turkey. So if you can, please write in the comments what kind of simillar webpages can I use instead of wonderful YouTube...

2 hours before the flight

Hello people!!!

Only two hours left and I'll be between earth and clouds? Amazing feeling no? B ut to be honest I don't like that flying cans... Soon a friend of mine will pick up me and we will go to Kabuki for a fast sushi!!! I really hope that 1 hour is enough for the flight registration... :)

And one more thing... Today in the middle of the night I woke up and started to sing a SWEDISH song... It's still some kind of wonder for me... I heared that song only couple of times before... Who know what does it mean?!? The song - look below.

Again: I'm leaving, changing, reborning...

Monday night:
My luggage is half packed... It took a time to think what to take and what to leave... And you know what I recognized... I'm always taking the same things: the same jeans, shorts, T-shirts and shirts, sweaters... Well I baught some new things as well...

Tuesday morning:
So... Here we are... I decided not to use my parfume 212 Sexy Man by Caroline Herrera anymore, instead of this I'm starting again to use Echo by Davidoff... I baught their deo as well :) hehe... I think it is lighter for summer and I need to change some more things in my life... So new parfume...

Yesterday I had some nice internet conversations with my friends: Agne (who is a part of my familly), Gabriele (finally I did something good also for her), Vytautas (moral supporter) and Piret (who made me think more about the friends). Piretike, eesti tüdrük, I miss you a lot... I even had tears in my eyes yesterday...

Yesterday while packing I realised that I started to like Beyonce... I have never been keen on this singer, but couple of her songs raised in me such a strange feelings. I was feeling guilty [I couldn't meet all of my friends before going to Turkey], happy and crazy at the same time... Only one thing was spinning in my head: "I'm mental, people. I'm mental"...

I was thinking what am I leaving here in Lithuania. Friends? Familly? Beautiful green country or part of my identity?
After this few weeks I'm sooooo emotionaly exhausted, I don't know if this time going far to south is going to be that much fun as previous time going to Armenia. Am I ready to adopt the culture I love in general? I kinda feel more and more that I'm person from the north. Or maybe this situation shows me that I need to move, otherwise I'll become home-bird...

That's it... Today couple of exams left, I need to go to optics shop and notary... And then the magic bus is waiting for me to start my trip to Riga and from there with amazing Turkish Airlines [it doesn't count they had plane-crash in Amsterdam couple of weeks ago]...

And for all my friends... I think this video is the best way to say good-bye and to reflect what kind of emotions and mood I have. Kisses and Hugs! Kyss og klem :*

Video to share

You know... It's 2:30 AM in Lithuania... I kinda need to go to sleep already... But before this I wanted to share some video (at the same time also a song) with you! I don't know how and why but this Slovak song is already two weeks in my mind... What does it mean? Am I going to meet someone from Slovakia or what?.. Don't ask what are the lyrics about... I have no clue, but he sings really nice... So enjoy!

Introduction

Hello dear friends or at least people I know!

This is the day I decided to write a blog... Haha, I'm happy or at least I'm trying to think that I'm happy... Whatever... Acctually I didn't think to start to write it, but one friend of mine - Vytautas told me that it's a good way of forgetting the daily routine and problems. Maybe he is right, maybe not... But I got interested into expressing my minds in the written form.
So how I feel today?! Well it's two-edged question. Well maybe it has even more edges (tres, quatro, cinco, seis, siete [sorry, I'm just trying to see if I still can count in Spanish]). Today I spent a wonderful day in the forests in the region of Vilnius! After long time I had possibility to do BBQ. I was with two friends of mine Jolita a.k.a. Adele and Lora (she is just known as Lora and that's it) and one friend of my friend... Anyway after discovering a lot of beauties of the nature we found an ideal place [I could call it even a paradise] for BBQ and some card games... I'll always remember that "natural wild strawberry" taste of washing liquid and some extremely old nudists in another side of the river! Anyways guys! Thanks for the wonderful time...

As probably almost all of you know I'm moving to Turkey very soon (two days)... In one hand I'm very happy about new enviroment, new friends, new job etc. [etc.] But in another hand it's quite a challenge. I even don't know how to describe that feeling [nes jaunas, dar kvailas (lit. because I'm young, still stupid]...

And one more thing: I'm totaly lost in my private life... Here you can see two Oscars... One is totaly fallen in love and another practical one who tries to ignore every possible emotion connected with my last two-weeks-relationship. But from everything I see now I'm again kind of again starting to live my life without any private life... That's it for now... I hope it gonna be continued...

With Love and Passion [I like this two words].
Your Oscar