Day 11

Dear Blog Readers,

I'm afraid today's entry will be boring, but I think I should write one anyway. Additionally, this is a procrastination method, because I have homework I should be doing.

Today was a really relaxing day. I got to wake up late, because my professor cancelled class. I got some turkish food for lunch and then listened to a presentation about culture shock. It was pretty boring and actually uninformative. I think it's less culture shock that we are experiencing right now and more of just home sickness and wanting things to be easy and not having to try so hard to just order lunch. After the presentation, we met in groups and realized we had to do a group presentation about one of the museums we went to last week. None of us were happy about it, because we hardly understood anything the man, who was leading our tour, said. I bought more minutes for my cell phone and went grocery shopping, which was productive. Then we went to dinner in the dining hall and had a really fun and relaxing time. We attempted to do homework after dinner, but that was 5 hours ago and I am still not done. Not good. I should really start trying to do that again, but I am afraid that my professor is just going to shoot me down no matter what, so it is kind of demoralizing. I know he doesn't mean most of his criticism, but it is still hard to hear, and it just doesn't motivate me. It's funny, I want to be motivated, but I'm not. I feel like it shouldn't be this hard to motivate yourself. I guess it is just pushing farther outside my comfort zone and I'm not ready to do that yet. Hopefully, I will be ready soon. Next on my list of things to tackle, is doing my laundry, which badly needs to be done. And figuring out what made the kitchen smell so disgusting and trying to fix that. I also need to make my room look less like a prison, there is nothing on the walls and our bed stuff is white, so it kind of looks like a mental institution or something. Anyway, I should actually do my homework now. Hope everyone is doing well!