The Adventures of Joe Trap

While I was waiting for my Operations Management professor, and I met a girl named Neslihan from Turkey who was sutdying in England. She had been living here for six years, and only goes back to Turkey to visit, becuase she loves the multi-culturalism of London. I don't blame her. She is getting her BA in Marketing and Advertising after this year since she had a break of 6 years. I learned about turkish -something--it's a candy that is really good! We started talking about American influence, which we probably shouldn't have...she had some harsh views of the US. For example she won't go to Starbucks, Mc Donalds, or any American business (yet she owns an iPod) becuase she doesn't agree with our business practices with "sweet shops", etc... (what does Turkey have? Most likely a simular agenda...I didn't bring this up though). One thing that bothered me was that she claimed that the US Government commited Genocide with the Indiginious people (commonly mistakenly called Native Americans, or Indians). We didn't commite genecide of any race, we forced them to give up the right of not paying taxes and move off their reservations OR stay in them and live a tax free life. I do not agree particularly with either of the options, but by no means is this a motive for genocide! Iggnorance! Other than that sour topic, we got into a deep discussion about Trance music, and the London clubbing scene (on how the bouncers were strict on dress code). She will let me sample some of her world music or some psy. trance . Cool, I love new music! Perhaps I can attempt to give her a more positive impression of America too.


After waiting an hour and a half, Dr. Bisi gave me his card to give to my professor, and he seemed very impressed with my work in the coursework for Operations Management. It was good to hear that we was happy with the month's worth of work I put into this project...I'm sure Dr. Hitchcock will be most pleased with the report.

Today it stuck me a bit that I was leaving, not to mention those I had begun ti care for around me. I hung out with Diane for the last time. We took a stroll down Oxford Street and went to We went to an Italian restuarant and had a great meal. Pasta from the restaurant always ends up much better than my pathetic. I honeslty enjoyed the time we had together, and had some developing feelings for her. It was sad, and she is leaving back to New York this week. I felt a bit miserable on the way home, becuase I didn't want to accept that anything would work out. I knew it was coming, yet I don't feel this way very often. It still came as a shock since It snuck up on me. Oh well :(. We'll keep in contact, and hopefully I'll see her again. It made me realize that in around 15 days, I will be gone as well...Kind of puts a damper on things.

Cheers,
Joe