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Kara

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About Me

About Me 1 outlook: You can’t change life but you can change the world.
2 flaws: I care too much about what others think. I’m working on that. Well, I keep telling myself that I am working on it. I say “like” a lot and probably talk to fast. I’m not spending too much time on that one though.
3 authors: CS Lewis, Robert Frost, Karis
4 seasons: I love them all. That is another thing about me, I don’t like making decisions. But just look at the seasons. Spring: Beautiful flowers and butterflies. I love butterflies. Something about that beautiful metamorphosis that they go through. Summer: Carefree, fun, and a bit uninhibited. Fall: The colors that leaves take is enough to take my breath away. I love just walking through the woods completely surrounded by those leaves. Winter: Snow. Waking up in the morning and seeing everything, ground, trees, and sky turned white. It’s so beautiful and pure.
5 drinks: Diet Dr. Pepper, Coffee, Hot Chocolate, Shirley Temples (anything with grenadine), Guinness
6 places I’ve lived: South Carolina, California, Massachusetts, Virginia, Michigan, and Turkey
7 things I want to do: Make a scrapbook, buy a dSLR, SCUBA dive, have a family, do service work in Africa, go to Brazil, own a KitchenAide.
8 lines in my favorite poem (Blue Butterfly Day – Robert Frost)
9 minutes I spent trying to figure out something in my life that had to do with the number nine. If you think of something, let me know.
10 artists I love: Sister Hazel, Matthew West, Dispatch, Third Day, Lyle Lovette, Tim Blane, Derek Webb, Zac Brown Band, Carbon Leaf, Five For Fighting

My Interests

You!

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Sister Hazel Carbon Leaf Dispatch Third Day Jars of Clay Hanson Tim Blane Incubus Matthew West Jack Johnson Damien Rice

Movies:

Finding Nemo Love Actually Pretty Woman Spirited Away

Television:

Gilmore Girls 24 Random 1

Books:

Mere Christianity The Screwtape Letters Bible Girl with a Pearl Earring Life of Pi Harry Potter Blackberry Wine

Heroes:

“The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.”

My Blog

Why?

Why does hate exist? Why is it so hard to love your enemy? Why does hurt exist?   There's a right answer. A correct answer. A good answer. God has a plan. Life isn't easy. You learn from pai...
Posted by Kara on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:51:00 PST

The Bayram Break

This one is a loooooooooooooooooong blog, so be prepared.   For the celebration of the end of Ramadan, we were given three days off of school. Since the two days that connected this break to the ...
Posted by Kara on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:31:00 PST

Turkey in Turkey

(For pictures go here: http://bluebutterflyday.blogspot.com) Thanksgiving plans of an extravagant get together had been whispered throughout the group since our arrival in Turkey. Everyone wanted to c...
Posted by Kara on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:48:00 PST

Istanbul

(For Pictures go here: http://bluebutterflyday.blogspot.com)   Following our group dinner, we all piled into taxis and headed to the train station. The taxi ride quickly turned into a crazy adven...
Posted by Kara on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:16:00 PST

The Village

A few weeks into the program, we took some time away from the big city of Ankara. We got on a bus and traveled about an hour to the village of Kazan. It was a small village, home to perhaps 250 people...
Posted by Kara on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 06:51:00 PST

The Castle

Is there a better way to understand a new city then to simply see it all? Well, we attempted to do this by taking a trip to the Ankara Citadel. It is an old castle that was built using Roman ruins. It...
Posted by Kara on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:26:00 PST

Ankara

The first week in Ankara was quite hectic. After arriving on Sunday, we met in the lobby of one of the dorms on Monday morning to head into town together. Our language classes and core course class (C...
Posted by Kara on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 02:31:00 PST

The Arrival

So I'm not sure if I did something to offend Turkey, but my arrival to Ankara did not go as smoothly as I had hoped. I flew out of London Heathrow at 7:30 in the morning and arrived in Istanbul at 1:0...
Posted by Kara on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 03:08:00 PST

London

So I did it. I got on a plane and took off toward the unknown. I made a small pit stop though. The first three days of my adventure would be spent in the beautiful city of London. I was able to stay w...
Posted by Kara on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 03:07:00 PST

Why Turkey?

This is the question that I have recieved over and over since making the decision to study in Ankara, Turkey for the fall semester. Let me begin to answer it by clarifying that I had never imagined Tu...
Posted by Kara on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 05:08:00 PST