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Ups & Downs
Life in Istanbul is a roller coaster of ups and downs. 1. Dancing is fun. (Up.) Egotastic dressing room photo shoot. 2. There is an angry psycho agency manager harassing and threatening me because the...
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Back in Istanbul, doing my thing.
This morning I woke up at the crack of dawn–before that, really, because I was already awake and editing when the call to prayer sounded. Like a good yogini, I took a break from the revisions of the...
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#Interpreterlyfe
I have been interpreting professionally for the better part of a year now. I work mostly in hospitals, servicing Turkish and Spanish-speaking patients in mental health units, before and after surgery,...
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Interpreter Problems
I work in several different medical settings, including mental health units. I’ve seen a range of mental illness cases, ranging from mild depression and cloudiness to much more severe–violent,...
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Istanbul, AGAIN
It was almost exactly two years ago that I left Turkey for the United States, never to move back again. Friends would ask me when I was planning to return to Turkey. “Next year, inshallah,” I’d say...
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