uh- I mean FUTBOL
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| Turkish Soccer uh- I mean FUTBOL |
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| Never underestimate the role of soccer in Turkey. An average North American has no idea about soccer fanatacism in Europe until you have been there. The city literally shuts down when there is a major match on. Students will leave class early and you will be left wondering what's going on, until you glance out the window and see them all huddled around a kafve cheering on their teams. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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After about a week of life in Istanbul, I was innocently preparing some class notes when I heard shots fired from outside my balcony. Could it be, I panicked, that my quiet working-class suburb was really a hot bed of insurgency. What had I gotten myself into? I hit the deck, worrying about stray bullets and all, and crawled to my roommates, who were making dinner unperturbed. When they realized why I was where I was, tears of laughter rolled down their faces as they explained to me the basics of UEFA. My students, from that point on, mimed gun-shots whenever a big game was coming up, so that I might have some advance warning. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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