Years and Years I just finished watching “Years and Years”, and I was wondering I have not seen any other movie/TV series that paints the world’s insanity this well! I do not recommend watching it during Covid-19 quarantine though, the world is terrifying enough these days and watching something like this could make you feel down. This mini serial is trying to anticipate what is likely to happen in the future, and by future, I mean the next 15-20 years, not something like apocalypse movies! These days everyone is talking about global warming, ruined planet Earth, about corruption and stupid politicians, about wars, refugees, about fragile economy, and… but what is the end? What will happen next? What are the consequences of our behavior in this world? This show gives us a possible image of future. It looks a bit surreal; during watching it, you might tell yourself "This is impossible to happen." But that’s what all the people from the past said! Who could believe someday there would be something such as smartphones for example. Now what are we supposed to do with this wild and insane world? While watching the show I kept asking myself if activism really works. Do the campaigns for saving nature or human rights, or things like that really work? I am asking this as someone who cared a lot before, but these days honestly I am very disappointed with any form of activism. “Edith” in the show, who used to be a campaigner and activist before, struggles with the same doubts and gives up on her activities for a while, but I think the series has an optimistic view about activism overall. Somewhere in the show, Edith says, “When you kill a monster, another one will raise.” You campaign against a bad law, even if you succeed there might be another bad one next, you get rid of a cruel politician, a worse one is waiting for you! Activism is a non-stop fight. It should be constant. This show really spoke to me, I think it is absolutely brilliant and thought provoking, with its convening acting, plausible story line, and perfect soundtracks. I highly recommend it to watch.

Turkçe Podcast Merhaba arkadaşlar :) Herkese iyi günler. Türkçemi geliştirmek için Türkçe podcast dinlemek istiyorum. Burada bana en sevdiğiniz podcast'leri tavsiye edabilir misiniz? Ama çok da zor ve derin konulardan bahseden podcast'ler olmasin. (masala felsefi, bilimsel, folan), çünkü Türkçem hala o kadar iyi değil. Teşekkür ederim.

Turkce diziler Herkese merhaba. Türkçe öğrenmek için, türk dizileri izlemek istiyorum. Ama onları nerede bulacağımı bilmiyorum. Bana web siteleri indirmek için tavsiye eder misiniz?

(Please imagine a creative title here) (Part 1) It’ been like ages that I haven’t written anything, and I don’t even know where to start. I graduated from university about a month ago, time literally flies. I can’t believe that! I mean when I came to italki I was 16 and now look at me, I’m 23! An official grown up with a bachelor degree! Some people in my age get married, some of them even have kids, life looks very serious now. Although sometimes deep inside me I feel like I’m still that 16 year old teenager who registered on italki to learn English! But life doesn’t work that way, you have to deal with reality and face the facts. And here is the fact that I should face up to; I’m 23, I’m an adult. I was talking about my graduation, so yes I wore a gown and threw my hat into the air, took my graduation pictures with my proud smile on my face, and then went to my room at the dorm and decided to pack my stuff into my suitcase and go back to home! I mean my parents’ home. I lived and studied at Tehran for four years. After graduation, I struggled a lot to make the decision that if I want to stay at busy, noisy, big and shining Tehran and work there and live on my own or go back to my small, silent and sometimes boring hometown to live with my parents again. It wasn’t an easy decision to make at all. Well, both decisions had some pros and cons obviously. It’s not easy to live in Tehran, it’s probably the most expensive city of Iran to live in, something like NYC of US! The air is polluted, subways and buses are always crowded, the city is too big that it takes ages to go to one place from another, so you spend too much time transporting that you barely find time to do the things that you like or even to sleep enough. Most of the people have lack of sleep, and you see those tired and stressed out faces everywhere all day long. Yet it’s like people are the slaves of this city, it has something that people can’t give up on it. It was hard for me to give up on it too. When I was a teenager, I dreamed of studying at a top ranked university at Tehran. This city was all that my hometown was not! In my mind, it was full of events, full of different people with different thoughts, and full of new places. You would never get bored there! (To be continued at comments section)

Going to an interview when you don't intend to accept the job

Do you think it's unethical to go for a job interview while you don't want it? (Or it's like you're 90% sure that you don't want it.)

Do you think it's wasting the interviewer's time? 

Or you think it's just okay?

I'll be thankful if you share your experiences about this. 

Günlük Türkçe Notlar 4 Merhabalar! Uzun zaman olup Türkçe öğrenmeye çalışmadım! Yeni öğrenmeye başlamak için, Türkçe film dizileri indirdim ve unu izlemek başladim. Filmin adı "Bir aşk hikayesi". Onun adına belli ki bir aşk filmi. Anne ve Çocuk aşki, erkek ve kadın aşki. Iyi geldi bana bu film. Bugüne kadar 5 bölüm izledim.

What is a good gift for a university professor?

One of my favorite professors who I really care about is going to move to another country, 

So we (some of his students) want to give him something as a gift, to remember us. 

We want something unique and meaningful to him. 

Do you any suggestion? What kind of gifts are common in your country to give to a good teacher?

Günlük Türkçe Notlar 3 Bugün İranda tatil oldu. Ben sabah çok geç uyandım.. Kahvaltıda bir tane muz ve iki kurabiye yedım. Onan sonra yeni ay için planlarımı yazdım. Bu ay Iranda yılın son ayı. çok işim var bu ayda. Yeni yıl için hazır olmak lazim. Şimdi bir duş alacağım, sonra akşam yemegi pişireceğim. Ne pişireceğim bilmiyorum ama, pişirmeyi çok sevmiyorum. Yarın yine üniversiteye gitmeliyim. Keş ki yine tatil olsaydı.

Günlük Türkçe Notlar 2 Herkese günaydın. Bugün ablam ile üniversitesine geldim. Burada bir seminer var, ona katılmak istiyorum. Ablam benden yaşlı. Mühendislik eğitimi alıyor. Şimdi bu notu yazıyorum ve seminerin başlamasını bekliyorum. Bundan sonra, iki kahve alacağız ve sminera gideceğiz.