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NORWEGIAN EXPERIENCE -HAND BAG 40€
NORWEGIAN AIR SHUTTLE CEO Dear Geir Karlsen *Customer satisfaction matters!* I am a customer (after a 36y carrier in the airline industry just retired as station manager and PPL owner). I have Norwegian…
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UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI 1971
I visited the Faculty of Science of the University of Helsinki with the Foreign Student Advisor Mrs. Helena Allahwerdi in August 1970. I had short meetings with the head of the biochemistry department,…
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COVID-19 TEST POSITIVE
CORONA 1-12-2020 On Monday, we woke up with fever, chills, fatigue, and muscle aches. Our teenager son didn’t go to school. Probably just a bad case of flu right? No cough, no difficulty…
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TRAVEL TO FINLAND
PREPARING FOR THE TRIP Since we studied in the same high school, we were good friends with my classmate Sezai at Hacettepe University. He came from a good and wealthy family and he…
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FLU VACCINE, COVID-19 VACCINE
Last week I received two vaccines that are not directly related to the Coronavirus, but they might help by preventing or reducing severe throat and lung infection in case of possible disease. VaxiFlu…
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DEATH IS NOT LIKE IN MOVIES
MY UNCLE GOT A HEART ATTACK My mother’s older brother uncle Hasan, (Hasan Dayı) died from a heart attack when we were waiting for the bus. I was thirteen and he was in…
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MY SCHOOL YEARS
At the age of seven, I started the Çizmeci Primary School in Ankara. Our kind-hearted and patient teacher Mrs. Münevver taught us tirelessly from first to fifth grade. When the weather got warmer…
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COMPETITION BETWEEN NEIGHBORS AND THE BUTTER WARS
THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND ESTABLISHED IN 1918 Traditional competition between Finns and neighboring Swedes has been going on. The people of the 10.5 million inhabitants, the Kingdom of Sweden consider sometimes Finland with 5.5 million…
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MY FIRST SOLO TRAVEL
ANKARA – ISTANBUL 500 KM 8 HOURS When I was in my late teenage years and got a good report card from high school, my father used to keep his promise and allow…