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December 5, 2011

Roasted Chestnuts and Watermelon Radish Salad

I am used to being a foreigner. For the past 10 years I am. Through my travels and living abroad. Even in my home country. “You speak Russian without an accent“, - a Moscow taxi driver notes. “I am a native” - I murmur.

Being a foreigner is always discriminating - in a very cool but also very annoying way. On the one hand you get a license to do outrageous things that violate local customs. Yet on the other hand you are never given full excess to the local living. And you are constantly balancing between keeping your identity (and sanity) and yet integrating.

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September 4, 2011

What It Takes to Rent a House in Istanbul

I moved out of my old place and I have rented a house in Istanbul. And moved in with the guy. Second time. Second time with the same guy. Because two months earlier we have moved in our new lovely place in Sapanca. Now we are living in two houses. One on a hilltop over a lake of Sapanca and the other one at the bustling metropolis of Istanbul.

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