Hey!
This is the last post for this month, but do not worry! i ll write you if i did any shopping today or tomorrow(i m sure this day is tomorrow somewhere in US)! For today, i did not do shopping! BUT!! i had a graduation gift from my lovely/wise adviser/ listener! Sorry guys! i did not wait for 2 more days to wear that neclace... Somethings cannot be postponed!
Besides, neclace was not the only present that i got from her! i had great dinner also. Salad rocks!!!! And i should not forget to thank my little brother and my caring uncle. This was sooo not forgettable.
This was a good day, still is! Because, i have just send an application to this festival thanks to my dear M. He called me few hours ago to say that today could be the last day to apply! This is a festival in Norway. Check it out if you like, 'cos it seems like they gave us one more day to think! If i & M ll be there, you ll know every detail for sure. (Ssshhh!! Do not scream! Everybody is sleeping! at least here:)
And tomorrow...will be a looong day! Slow Food Lady and i and my roomy will meet and discuss Slow Food Movement! i am planning to write you about interview which i -again- am planning to make. If it will not be an interview, it will be something that you are going to be surprised!! Wait for it(Barney effect)!!
Lessons to be learned:
1) Enjoy your day!! So.. keep reading this blog:))
2) Let your roomy to know that you are not going to be at home for few days before you already arrive there!
3) Say 'Thanks!' to your friends/family.. and good bye to Nutella!
Cheers!!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Shopping-free SEPTEMBER, 28th(we got a mail!!)
Hey!
Today, we got a mail from Slow Food Lady and guess what!! We -i and my roomy- will go to meet her on Thursday!!! i am happy:)
Then this means, i am going to set my new challange as... No Packed Food OCTOBER! BUT!! It seems like it is going to be a goooood challange, real challange, challange-challange! You may think why i think like that. Let me explain(i do not know why i am asking this every time as if you can say 'no')! Today, my very good friend from high school B came home and we spent hours full of thinking and sharing... Of course one of the topics we talked about was my blog. You surprised, right? i am sure you did! So, we started to think what we can do to live without packed food. Without chocolate in package, chips in package, snacks in package, pasta in package, milk in package, nutella in package, soda in package, tea in package, soy sauce in package, cereals in package, yogurt in package.. Ok i m not going to tell more about my eating habit, you already notice that is not that healthy.
Btw, after thursday, i ll be at home with my sustainable mum and not that sustainable sister:)) So for 4 days, it could either be easy or seriously hard! Because, even mum is sustainable, there are many dangerously delicious dishes that i can hardly resist. But deal is deal!! i trust myself!!
Lessons to be learned:
1) Psychology classes help me to motivate myself! Hollywood teaches more about making you feel hero:P
2) Do not eat junk food! It can be hard to quit if you want to be an environmentalist one day!
3) Do not bother your friends with your blog page. Can be dangerous!!
Cheers!!
Today, we got a mail from Slow Food Lady and guess what!! We -i and my roomy- will go to meet her on Thursday!!! i am happy:)
Then this means, i am going to set my new challange as... No Packed Food OCTOBER! BUT!! It seems like it is going to be a goooood challange, real challange, challange-challange! You may think why i think like that. Let me explain(i do not know why i am asking this every time as if you can say 'no')! Today, my very good friend from high school B came home and we spent hours full of thinking and sharing... Of course one of the topics we talked about was my blog. You surprised, right? i am sure you did! So, we started to think what we can do to live without packed food. Without chocolate in package, chips in package, snacks in package, pasta in package, milk in package, nutella in package, soda in package, tea in package, soy sauce in package, cereals in package, yogurt in package.. Ok i m not going to tell more about my eating habit, you already notice that is not that healthy.
Btw, after thursday, i ll be at home with my sustainable mum and not that sustainable sister:)) So for 4 days, it could either be easy or seriously hard! Because, even mum is sustainable, there are many dangerously delicious dishes that i can hardly resist. But deal is deal!! i trust myself!!
Lessons to be learned:
1) Psychology classes help me to motivate myself! Hollywood teaches more about making you feel hero:P
2) Do not eat junk food! It can be hard to quit if you want to be an environmentalist one day!
3) Do not bother your friends with your blog page. Can be dangerous!!
Cheers!!
Monday, September 27, 2010
Shopping-free SEPTEMBER, 27th(good things!)
Hey!
Today was a good day! Not only because i did not buy anything, but also 'cos i received a mail from my friend L... from erasmus!! Few days ago, i sent mails to some of my friends from erasmus to tell them that i started to write a blog about my environmental challanges. Actually, this was the main reason that is why i write this blog in english and not in my own language: i wanted my foreign friends to read my blog also. No!! Right sentence should be: i wanted to force my foreign friends to read my blog also:)) What can i say? i have been a very very good good student in Management!! So, PR forever:)
Yes! Then my dear friend L replied me back saying me that she liked it(i can't keep myself sharing with you like a Marshall sharing 'baby-on-board' in How i met your mother!). BUT!! More important than this, she also had good news for environment and the community! Here is what she told me. Unfortunately, this is in Danish, but still you may want to have a look! Google translate helps! The idea here as she shared with us that this is a project about to have 'affordable, ethical and tasty vegetables and fruit:)' (exactly in her own words! Is not it a-ma-zing?)
Ok! Let s make it more clear. Sometimes, i behave like you already saw what she sent to me. However, you did not unless you are a fan and also a hacker!! In that organization, people spend 3 hours in a month to produce organic, local fruits and vegetables and have right to buy in cheaper price in return. It started in Copenhagen and they ,as part of the project, extend it to Amager! She, unlike me, is too modest saying that she is not the most active one.
Now, you see what is a-ma-zing!! This seemed to me as a really good project, since: it enables people to see where our foods come from, to understand it needs too much effort to make them ready for us to eat, to work together, to see there can be local and organic fruits and vegetables with an affordable price.. And it seems like it is going to be i bigger project! You see, just one step.. or maybe we should say one BIG step we need to go forward. Then we become Ussain Bolt! (Am i exagerating again?!)
Btw, L was the person who introduced 2nd hand store in Tilburg to me. It was my first time to visit 2nd hand store. i was sooooo, tooooo, veeerryyy impressed!! i m sure i am going to tell about it also. Do you think i am too talkative/ writative?!
Lessons to be learned:
1) Internet is not the only way to communicate with people, and Farmville is not the only place that you can produce something! (i know it sounds weird when 'i' say this:P)
2) Go to 2nd hand store and be impressed!! (good feeling!)
3) There is not such a word like writative! Do not believe everything you see!!!
Cheers!!
PS: You can believe me:)
Today was a good day! Not only because i did not buy anything, but also 'cos i received a mail from my friend L... from erasmus!! Few days ago, i sent mails to some of my friends from erasmus to tell them that i started to write a blog about my environmental challanges. Actually, this was the main reason that is why i write this blog in english and not in my own language: i wanted my foreign friends to read my blog also. No!! Right sentence should be: i wanted to force my foreign friends to read my blog also:)) What can i say? i have been a very very good good student in Management!! So, PR forever:)
Yes! Then my dear friend L replied me back saying me that she liked it(i can't keep myself sharing with you like a Marshall sharing 'baby-on-board' in How i met your mother!). BUT!! More important than this, she also had good news for environment and the community! Here is what she told me. Unfortunately, this is in Danish, but still you may want to have a look! Google translate helps! The idea here as she shared with us that this is a project about to have 'affordable, ethical and tasty vegetables and fruit:)' (exactly in her own words! Is not it a-ma-zing?)
Ok! Let s make it more clear. Sometimes, i behave like you already saw what she sent to me. However, you did not unless you are a fan and also a hacker!! In that organization, people spend 3 hours in a month to produce organic, local fruits and vegetables and have right to buy in cheaper price in return. It started in Copenhagen and they ,as part of the project, extend it to Amager! She, unlike me, is too modest saying that she is not the most active one.
Now, you see what is a-ma-zing!! This seemed to me as a really good project, since: it enables people to see where our foods come from, to understand it needs too much effort to make them ready for us to eat, to work together, to see there can be local and organic fruits and vegetables with an affordable price.. And it seems like it is going to be i bigger project! You see, just one step.. or maybe we should say one BIG step we need to go forward. Then we become Ussain Bolt! (Am i exagerating again?!)
Btw, L was the person who introduced 2nd hand store in Tilburg to me. It was my first time to visit 2nd hand store. i was sooooo, tooooo, veeerryyy impressed!! i m sure i am going to tell about it also. Do you think i am too talkative/ writative?!
Lessons to be learned:
1) Internet is not the only way to communicate with people, and Farmville is not the only place that you can produce something! (i know it sounds weird when 'i' say this:P)
2) Go to 2nd hand store and be impressed!! (good feeling!)
3) There is not such a word like writative! Do not believe everything you see!!!
Cheers!!
PS: You can believe me:)
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Shopping-free SEPTEMBER, 25th & 26th(what if!!)
Hey!
Sorry for the delay but i m not going to write about eco-labeling. Today was a tough day. Not because i am sooo atracted by a shirt or shoes or necklace or all, but i did thought. You know it happens sometimes!
Yesterday, i received a kind mail from Slow Food Lady that next week in some day we could have tea together: i, my roomy and Slow Food Lady. This was one of the good news. The other good news is that we are going to have 'tea'. Probably, you do not know: i am tea addicted. Till here, i was a normal person except of drinking liter of tea everyday.
After that, i started to think how we are affected by the conditions we live in. This can sound weird to you. i mean it seems like a basic question that every 4-year-old kid can ask or answer. (My intention is not to offend kids who are 4 or under 4.) However, sometimes due to lack of imagination or memory, we do not think what it can mean. Yes, i know it started to be a meaningless writing.. BUT!! Here is my point:
When i am at home with my sustainable mum, we have our meals at home. Meals are home-made, actually mum-made. We are going out for some special occasions like to celebrate something or for something that we can not cook at home and believe me there is not too many things that mum can not cook. Therefore, i can say there is almost no fast food in my life when i am with mum. To make it clear, i would like to explain what kind of meals we have at home. First of all, we do not fry everyting. Neither burgers nor coke are part of our daily diet. We have cooked vegetables sometimes mixed with meat(can be chicken or red meat) and have always salad. Moreover, we do not buy everything in packages. It was a shocking moment for me to see salads-ready to eat- in packages. And ready to eat soups.. When i say ready to eat, i mean it! You just need to heat up. You do not need to cut all ingredients, to boil the water, to mixed them, to stir till they get ready.. NO!! You just need to put them in the microwave and here it is! When did we become that lazy??
i know you started to say 'But you do not have a kid, you do not have a house to 'run', you do not have a full time job(btw, how do you know that i do not have a full time job!!)'etc... You may be right.. or you just accept everything as it comes. People survived when they do not have ready-to-eat soup! i am not saying that we need to live as our hunter-gatherer ancestors had lived. i do not think that i could live in such a patriarchal society also. Again i hope you heard my sarcastic laughter about modern-patriarchal society!!
BUT!! What if we were born ,not 3000 years but 10 years earlier? Could we still talk about how hard life would be without ready-to-eat soup?
Lessons to be learned:
1) Mums are lovable!
2) Try living with not-ready-to-eat meals!!
3) Do not judge people according to their occupation: i could have been a full time worker!!!
Cheers!!
Sorry for the delay but i m not going to write about eco-labeling. Today was a tough day. Not because i am sooo atracted by a shirt or shoes or necklace or all, but i did thought. You know it happens sometimes!
Yesterday, i received a kind mail from Slow Food Lady that next week in some day we could have tea together: i, my roomy and Slow Food Lady. This was one of the good news. The other good news is that we are going to have 'tea'. Probably, you do not know: i am tea addicted. Till here, i was a normal person except of drinking liter of tea everyday.
After that, i started to think how we are affected by the conditions we live in. This can sound weird to you. i mean it seems like a basic question that every 4-year-old kid can ask or answer. (My intention is not to offend kids who are 4 or under 4.) However, sometimes due to lack of imagination or memory, we do not think what it can mean. Yes, i know it started to be a meaningless writing.. BUT!! Here is my point:
When i am at home with my sustainable mum, we have our meals at home. Meals are home-made, actually mum-made. We are going out for some special occasions like to celebrate something or for something that we can not cook at home and believe me there is not too many things that mum can not cook. Therefore, i can say there is almost no fast food in my life when i am with mum. To make it clear, i would like to explain what kind of meals we have at home. First of all, we do not fry everyting. Neither burgers nor coke are part of our daily diet. We have cooked vegetables sometimes mixed with meat(can be chicken or red meat) and have always salad. Moreover, we do not buy everything in packages. It was a shocking moment for me to see salads-ready to eat- in packages. And ready to eat soups.. When i say ready to eat, i mean it! You just need to heat up. You do not need to cut all ingredients, to boil the water, to mixed them, to stir till they get ready.. NO!! You just need to put them in the microwave and here it is! When did we become that lazy??
i know you started to say 'But you do not have a kid, you do not have a house to 'run', you do not have a full time job(btw, how do you know that i do not have a full time job!!)'etc... You may be right.. or you just accept everything as it comes. People survived when they do not have ready-to-eat soup! i am not saying that we need to live as our hunter-gatherer ancestors had lived. i do not think that i could live in such a patriarchal society also. Again i hope you heard my sarcastic laughter about modern-patriarchal society!!
BUT!! What if we were born ,not 3000 years but 10 years earlier? Could we still talk about how hard life would be without ready-to-eat soup?
Lessons to be learned:
1) Mums are lovable!
2) Try living with not-ready-to-eat meals!!
3) Do not judge people according to their occupation: i could have been a full time worker!!!
Cheers!!
Friday, September 24, 2010
Shopping-free SEPTEMBER, 24th(... the map!!)
Me again!!
i realized that i wrote 'the map' but did not mention about it.
So here is the story of the map:
2 months ago , my roomy promised me to buy a world map as a bday present. It seemed as a win-win game. My 'win' part was that i would have got the present that i wanted for years -there are many questions about what i did not buy it by myself still- and for my roomy's 'win' part was that i was not going to ask her about where some countries are!!
However, it did not work in the way that she wished for since i started to ask for countries which i could not find on the map where they are. i have never been sooo good at geography :S
BUT! Everything has a turning point. As i told you, i started to read 'Confessions of an Eco-sinner' by Fred Pearce and he has written in the early pages where every stuff comes from country by country. It means, now , i have reason to learn where these countries are to see how Eco-sinner i am as he discovers how he is. Yes, sometimes i am having hard times to explain myself why i am like this, why i need to find an ecological -not saying rational- reason to learn :))
The good part of that game is that it seems like i ll learn each country by heart. The bad part is i ll learn each counrty with a broken eco-heart! Because, different countries mean too much carbon release due to transportation which we support by buying it. However, it may also mean, as Fred Pearce said, we may be proud to have contributed to some local economy or given a leg up to some hard-pressed community.
i wish we did not have to 'help' these countries and had fair trade -i mean it- instead.
That was the story of a map!
Lesson to be learned:
Study geography when you are young!!
Cheers!!
i realized that i wrote 'the map' but did not mention about it.
So here is the story of the map:
2 months ago , my roomy promised me to buy a world map as a bday present. It seemed as a win-win game. My 'win' part was that i would have got the present that i wanted for years -there are many questions about what i did not buy it by myself still- and for my roomy's 'win' part was that i was not going to ask her about where some countries are!!
However, it did not work in the way that she wished for since i started to ask for countries which i could not find on the map where they are. i have never been sooo good at geography :S
BUT! Everything has a turning point. As i told you, i started to read 'Confessions of an Eco-sinner' by Fred Pearce and he has written in the early pages where every stuff comes from country by country. It means, now , i have reason to learn where these countries are to see how Eco-sinner i am as he discovers how he is. Yes, sometimes i am having hard times to explain myself why i am like this, why i need to find an ecological -not saying rational- reason to learn :))
The good part of that game is that it seems like i ll learn each country by heart. The bad part is i ll learn each counrty with a broken eco-heart! Because, different countries mean too much carbon release due to transportation which we support by buying it. However, it may also mean, as Fred Pearce said, we may be proud to have contributed to some local economy or given a leg up to some hard-pressed community.
i wish we did not have to 'help' these countries and had fair trade -i mean it- instead.
That was the story of a map!
Lesson to be learned:
Study geography when you are young!!
Cheers!!
Shopping-free SEPTEMBER, 23rd & 24th(Book cycling and the map!!)
Hey!
Yesterday and also today, i did not buy anything but pastry.
After sharing that very important piece of my life(!), i can start telling you what my friend S told me about book cycling. He was told by Hungarian friend -or by a person who have lived in Hungary for some reason, i am not sure about the reason, could be anything including Erasmus!- that there was a system that you can buy the book which you can return after reading. Financial part of that process works in that way: You pay the entire price of a book. When you finish it, you return the book to the store which they pay you back but keep small amount as a rent service. If you do not use the book properly, for instance you tear some pages or spill your coffee over the book, you are not paid back. What if you like the book and want to buy it? Did you forget?? You already bought the book!! So, just keep it:) Then you can live happily ever after...
Meanwhile, i m still searching for my new challange. BUT! i made a big step towards it by sending a mail to one of the activists of Slow Food Action in Turkey. i ll tell you who, if i have a chance to meet her and ask her for her permission. You see how respectful i am about the borders... and modest, but probably you have already noticed it ;)
So, for tomorrow, i ll write about slow food, or maybe i can postpone it till the time i ll be sure about my new challange. Yes, then tomorrow, i ll write about eco labeling. i guess i need to learn what it is before i start writing:)
Lessons to be learned:
1) You can live happily ever after with a book!
2) You can have one night stand with a book, also!!
3) And do not mess up with food!!!
Cheers!!
Yesterday and also today, i did not buy anything but pastry.
After sharing that very important piece of my life(!), i can start telling you what my friend S told me about book cycling. He was told by Hungarian friend -or by a person who have lived in Hungary for some reason, i am not sure about the reason, could be anything including Erasmus!- that there was a system that you can buy the book which you can return after reading. Financial part of that process works in that way: You pay the entire price of a book. When you finish it, you return the book to the store which they pay you back but keep small amount as a rent service. If you do not use the book properly, for instance you tear some pages or spill your coffee over the book, you are not paid back. What if you like the book and want to buy it? Did you forget?? You already bought the book!! So, just keep it:) Then you can live happily ever after...
Meanwhile, i m still searching for my new challange. BUT! i made a big step towards it by sending a mail to one of the activists of Slow Food Action in Turkey. i ll tell you who, if i have a chance to meet her and ask her for her permission. You see how respectful i am about the borders... and modest, but probably you have already noticed it ;)
So, for tomorrow, i ll write about slow food, or maybe i can postpone it till the time i ll be sure about my new challange. Yes, then tomorrow, i ll write about eco labeling. i guess i need to learn what it is before i start writing:)
Lessons to be learned:
1) You can live happily ever after with a book!
2) You can have one night stand with a book, also!!
3) And do not mess up with food!!!
Cheers!!
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Shopping-free SEPTEMBER, 22nd(challange or what?)
Hey!
Sorry, i could not write yesterday. Instead, i went for a walk with my dear friend F's close friend S from Erasmus, to our university which is one of the greenest universities in Turkey. Better than that, it will be greener after the project that we are working on currently. i ll tell about the project later a lot. For now, i d like to keep it as a surprise.
BTW, i did not do shopping yesterday! Do not send the flowers to my room for congradulation. i like them when they are in their habitat:))
Yes, as i said i am still thinking about my next challange. The day before yesterday when we met with my dear friends C(yes, the one that you have already known), G, M, Gü and my roomy, that helped me about my new possible/potential/'future' challanges. C sugested me to collect ,let say, 500 glass bottle and carry them to recycle center. It can also be plastic bottles or cans. At first, i thought it would be le-gen-dary(i want How i met your mother to start!!Barney rocks!!!), but then i need to check if it is legal. Because, as far as i know there is kind of law which says all waste belongs to municipalities. We ll see. Another challange would be, again by C and supported by Gü, to convince primary school teachers and directors to talk 10 min during the class and inform them about what it could be done to get greener. i ll think about it also.
Enough for talking about my challanges. i ,even i am not an expert, want to write a bit about energy harvesting. you can reach more info from here, wikipedia. Start point here is that, we are surrounded by many type of external energy. Other than sun, wide, tide kind of renewable sources, there is energy from radiowaves from our aplliances like TV satellite, cellphones, PC's as well as kinetic energy produced by our body movements or energy from body temprature.. However, these energy types sometimes can not be coverted efficiently to energy that we can use for large power demanding machines, instead they can be used for small appliances. As i told, it is not my major so i am not an expert but it seems soo interesting to me. Can you imagine how large amount of energy just goes(i do mean not it dissappears. it would be disrespectfull to thermodynamic:) without functioning?
Actually, i had one more thing to tell but i decided to write it tonight! Thanks my friend F's erasmus friend S who is also my friend now -getting complicated!- for telling me about different system for book cycling which will be the next subject!!
Lessons to be learned:
1) If you have a chance, go to Erasmus!! Fun is guaranteed as well as friendship.
2) Energy is everywhere!!
Cheers!
Sorry, i could not write yesterday. Instead, i went for a walk with my dear friend F's close friend S from Erasmus, to our university which is one of the greenest universities in Turkey. Better than that, it will be greener after the project that we are working on currently. i ll tell about the project later a lot. For now, i d like to keep it as a surprise.
BTW, i did not do shopping yesterday! Do not send the flowers to my room for congradulation. i like them when they are in their habitat:))
Yes, as i said i am still thinking about my next challange. The day before yesterday when we met with my dear friends C(yes, the one that you have already known), G, M, Gü and my roomy, that helped me about my new possible/potential/'future' challanges. C sugested me to collect ,let say, 500 glass bottle and carry them to recycle center. It can also be plastic bottles or cans. At first, i thought it would be le-gen-dary(i want How i met your mother to start!!Barney rocks!!!), but then i need to check if it is legal. Because, as far as i know there is kind of law which says all waste belongs to municipalities. We ll see. Another challange would be, again by C and supported by Gü, to convince primary school teachers and directors to talk 10 min during the class and inform them about what it could be done to get greener. i ll think about it also.
Enough for talking about my challanges. i ,even i am not an expert, want to write a bit about energy harvesting. you can reach more info from here, wikipedia. Start point here is that, we are surrounded by many type of external energy. Other than sun, wide, tide kind of renewable sources, there is energy from radiowaves from our aplliances like TV satellite, cellphones, PC's as well as kinetic energy produced by our body movements or energy from body temprature.. However, these energy types sometimes can not be coverted efficiently to energy that we can use for large power demanding machines, instead they can be used for small appliances. As i told, it is not my major so i am not an expert but it seems soo interesting to me. Can you imagine how large amount of energy just goes(i do mean not it dissappears. it would be disrespectfull to thermodynamic:) without functioning?
Actually, i had one more thing to tell but i decided to write it tonight! Thanks my friend F's erasmus friend S who is also my friend now -getting complicated!- for telling me about different system for book cycling which will be the next subject!!
Lessons to be learned:
1) If you have a chance, go to Erasmus!! Fun is guaranteed as well as friendship.
2) Energy is everywhere!!
Cheers!
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