It's been a long time...

Yes, I haven't updated my blog for months and so many things happened, I do not know where to begin... maybe because so many things happened my brain was so busy that I could not sit and look at what happened, it was a kind of rush, stress, plans, emotions of a new beginning mixed together.

As I told you before I was starting to grow more and more unsatisfied with my previous job, mainly because of the way I had to work, to many things at the same time, so stressful, my brain could not cope with the effort of trying to do so many things as good as possible. The problem is that I am a perfectionist so even with so much work I was trying to do everything as good as I could. With a different attitude I am sure I would have done much better... the Turkish attitude :-)

The natural consequence was that I decided to go for another job. There was no much to choose in a government city like Ankara and I was getting more and more concerned about what I could do. I was getting phone calls from Bucharest because of my CV being posted on eJobs.ro but I did not go for any of these offers. However after 1st of January 2007 with the EU join, the IT market in Romania started to move so fast that I realized that I will probably find something in Bucharest much better than any jobs in Turkey. I started to get better offers and I decided to go for one of them.

So, since 14th of May 2007 I have been working in Bucharest for Perot Systems. Together with moving to Bucharest lots of problems came, like finding a flat to rent in Bucharest (not an easy job), updating my documents - expired ID etc, getting used to a Bucharest so much different from what I knew - so much crowded, noisy, hot, aggressive, expensive...

Getting the necessary documents for Zuhal and Gean to get here (visa) was another annoying story but thanks to my flexible job I could manage to make time for everything.

Zuhal came in July to Bucharest for one month and we had some time together here, with good and bad experiences. There are photos from our trips here. Unfortunately bad ones prevailed so we postponed for an undefined date her move here. So I am alone here and Zuhal continues to work at Hacettepe University. Even if we disagree about what we should do in the future we are working on a solution. Any suggestions?...

In the meantime we see each other about monthly. I have just came back from Cesme, Turkey, where we had a nice holiday together. Photos here.

Gean is starting a new kindergarten at Hacettepe tomorrow. Next year he will go to school.
The kindergarten is just next to the Fine Arts department so he goes together with his mother to school.