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Synchronous Summers: Photos and Stories

Posted on August 24, 2018 by how_sven / 0 Comment

We’d just driven down scenic M-22 after camping at the Betsie River campground outside of Frankfort, Michigan. We had spent a few days in Grand Rapids before we...

Albania/istanbul/Travel

Intermission

Posted on November 21, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

I spent about three days in the hotel before heading back up to Uludağ to teach at another kid’s camp. I was relieved to have a little bit of rest; this was the...

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Bajram Curri

Posted on October 7, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

The furgon from Valbone to Bajram Curri leaves every morning at 7:00. There’s only one furgonper day and I don’t know why it leaves at such a ridicu...

Turkey/Uncategorized

Setting out: Raging fever and a plate of garlic

Posted on August 5, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

It was time to set out again. For the past month I’d been working at a kid’s camp up on mount Uludağ, about four hours from Istanbul. The university...

Turkey/Uncategorized

Fatura ödemeleri – paying my bills

Posted on June 26, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

Went and paid my gas and electricity bills the other day. Lord, what a nightmare it is anytime I need to go and pay my bills. When my parents were here we talke...

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Mark the Artist

Posted on June 20, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

I’ve met a lot of people in my few years of traveling and feel like I’ve got more than enough characters to make up a pretty funny novel about meeti...

Turkey/Uncategorized

Fred Fishermen

Posted on June 2, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

Went for a walk the other day. Strolled down to Karaköy in the evening as the sun was going down, to sit by the waterfront to watch the ferries come and go and ...

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Portkeys

Posted on May 23, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

I’ve written a lot about objects and how they can have the power to transport you to different worlds. I read most of the Harry Potter books, and the thin...

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Goodnight Phraseology Between Two Dudes

Posted on May 8, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

I recently had a friend of mine from my days of teaching in Prague, Steve, stay with me. I saw him again when I was in Prague again the next year, the fall of 2...

teaching/Turkey/Uncategorized

Falcon Derailleurs

Posted on March 28, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

Before I got into teaching, I worked in a bike shop. It’s usually my job in-between teaching jobs as well. When I get fed up with a place or with the idea...

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