11. Lalalalalaa

Yemyeşil bir doğaa,
Bahar kokan otlar,
Kuşlar, çiçekler ve mutlu inekleer :))

Whenever it becomes sunny or blossomes, i croon this song. It means in English, very green a nature; herbs that smells spring; birds, flowers and happy cows. I know it probably mean "nothing" in English but means to me. :) With this song, i am full of the joys of the spring, as happening nowadays. i passed all of my midterms and in a holiday now. That's fantastic for me after stressful days!

However, i try to value time by reading some books or watching TV series not to be stuck in the future. Wish everyone wonderful holidays again and hope to see you on monday again. :)

10. An Elephant vs. Imperialism

George Orwell mentiones about a police offices who is forced to kill an elephant, in his text. However, his aim to write this text is really different than it seems. In this short story, Orwell criticizes the imperalism in the World, and especially the imperialist country, England. To reflect the negative sides of imperalism, he uses an elephant. Then, he talk about the death of elephant. In my opinion, the death of elephant symbolizes the death of happy and peaceful societies, as a result of imperialism. The relation between the end of peaceful process and imperialism is indicated by police officer who kills the elephant. The crowd and he are the ones who symbolizes imperialism and its supporters. Moreover, the death of elephant is described as a painful and slow process. This idea also gets us to the idea that the death of imperialism signals the collapse of peace of people. This story was nice and for the first time i could guess the final of the story. Actually, the death of elephant may noy so much suprising, so it may not symbolize my success :))


**What a contrast to use "pink" colour in a such story, isn't it?? :)

9. Blue Lottery

Last week, blue team had a mini-presentation of "Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. Then, who is blue team? Hazal, Sevda and me :) Although we had very few audiences, we enjoyed the presentation very much. We tried our best in our midterm week and our relaxation was inestimable at the end of the presentation. I hope final one will be better! :) The story was like a puzzle that you follow hints to reach the result. Therefore, we needed to make a lot of researches and from these searches we got really interesting ideas. As it was my own responsibility, i searched about the symbolism part. When i realized that the surnames in the story were more than a surname in the story, it was funny for me to guess their implicit meanings. For example, Mr. Summer was the respresentative part of the story, whereas Mr. Grave signals the death. Again, hope to see on better final presentations. =)

8. This is not Fair

This week, we started our mini presentations. Nowadays, fresh students are really busy with exams, papers and more, but the final work of presentations were really good. However, the one that influenced me very much was "Hanife".

During the presentation, some data were shown and one of them was indicating that honour killings occur in Istanbul every week. Imagine, once a week! In just a week, a girl who has dreams is killed only as she pursues her happiness. However, all the human being do have the freedom to live what they want or wish. This freedom can neither be prevented nor considered as a guilt. Unfortunately, some people arenot aware..In my opinion, we live in an isolated life, every one lives his own life without considering the surroundings. This is not fair..

Therefore, as Martin Luther, i have a dream that one day everyone can pursue own happiness. I have a dream that one day, every one can have a freedom to give own decisions freely. I have a dream that one day we don't have any other Hanifes.

As well, i have another dream that one day all our exams and our papers will end up and we can pursue our own interests :))