group_pic Originally uploaded by PeckoPivo. A wonderful weekend prepared for us by Cultural Understanding Team of LC Istanbul. It included site visits to Dolmabahce Palace (Palace of the Sultans), Summer Palace (of the Sultans, of course), Aya Sofia, Cisterne… Sunday`s Global Village I unfortunately missed… But I heard that I was a star even if …
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I`m back in Istanbul… After two weeks of being away (check out the itinerary: Istanbul-Belgrade-Munich-San Francisco-Seattle-Chicago-Munich-Belgrade-Istanbul) and missing the greatest celebration ever (Galatasaray became the champion in a Hitchcock kind of an ending)… It was an exciting trip. Really…First I went to Belgrade and had an unforgetable weekend with my friends, family and most importantly …
Oh my god… I just realized how full of different feelings and emotions my life is. particularly at this very moment.So I`m in the airplane, flying from Seattle via Chicago via Munich via Belgrade to Istanbul (Chicago-Munich part at the moment of writing this). My country`s future is being decided as I fly and I …
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Istanbul Trainees May 2006 Originally uploaded by PeckoPivo. From left to right:Joanna (USA), myself, Magda (Germany), Friedemann (Germany), Niels (The Netherlands), Caro (Colombia), Beth (USA), Nadine (Germany), Shawky (Egypt), Rajtzi (India), Metin (Bulgaria/Turkey – not a trainee) and Orkhan (Azerbaijan). Each of us unique and different, yet we somehow manage to live together in an …
Had to change travel itinerary 🙁So this isthe final one: May 12th – Istanbul – BelgradeMay 14th – Belgrade – Seattle via Munich and San FranciscoMay 21th – Seattle – Belgrade via Chicago and MunichMay 22nd – Belgrade – Istanbul So, 2 days less in Belgrade, but still good… Even if it was 6 hours, …
Finally got my 3 year multi-entry business visa for USA 😛 and am travelling to Seattle (well, Redmond actually) to attend the first Microsoft Global Community Affairs Summit. The whole Community Affairs team – people from all over the world, responsible for more then 600 projects and hundreds of millions of US dollars of community …
galata-ankara1 Originally uploaded by PeckoPivo. Galatasaray – Ankaraspor…full stadium……Galata won 4:0……fantastic atmosphere……Sasa Ilic, my favorite player (was captain of Partizan Belgrade for 7 years), scored twice!!!…one part of the stadium screams “Sasha”……the other one “Ilic”……and I feel goooooooooood… 🙂 galata-ankara4 Originally uploaded by PeckoPivo.
just uploaded a couple of most recent pics… Wanna see how I enjoy Istanbul? Then go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/peckopivo 😉
– finished my transition with Aakash and started working independently (he left to India to start working there) – almost got robbed in front of my apartment (the night after Aakash had his cell phone stolen), so we decided to move to the dorm until we find an apartment in some decent part of the …