23801. Kamil Koç being the better option for getting me to Istanbul
earlier.
23802. The hotel offering a fruit plate, a Turkish coffee, to bring up
my food.
23803. Vahan Abi praying for me and reminding me that I am safe.
23804. His sermon being so good for me.
23805. Ticket with Crystal.
23806. Heath getting me a picture of my translated passport in time.
23807. Finding an atm to withdraw money.
23808. A bus dropping me off so close.
23809. Getting a power of attorney knocked out quickly.
23810. Birkan’s wisdom on the process.
23811. An immigration worker calling me ablacığım and answering all
my questions.
23812. A quiet spot to sit and talk to Ronnie.
23813. Getting my mom’s package.
23814. A taxi to take me back after so much walking.
23815. A bus, a metro, an underwater metro, two more metros, a taxi,
a bus, another taxi and 4.7 miles.
23816. POA ✅
Rejection letter✅
Package ✅
I did all of the above in about 5 hours which is miraculous for
Turkey but super miraculous for Istanbul.
23817. Enough bathrooms.
23818. Enchilada dinner goodness.
23819. Marin’s delicious chocolate cookies.
23820. Heath taking 70,000 lira off my hands.
23821. Big hugs from Jude.
23822. Yasemen calling.
23823. Getting to be in Istanbul with Ashton and Elif.
23824. A nice big quiet hotel room to rest in.
23825. Info about another visa option from Will.
23826. A place to sit inside and wait on a bus.
23827. A straight shot from one airport to the other.
23828. Illianna and Heather arriving ok.
23829. Time to decompress.
23830. Waking stronger and with affirmations to keep pressing forward.
23831. Bryan’s card saying things I needed to hear.
23832. Nice free lounge food.
23833. A sweet time with Roozbeh and Mahshid.
23834. The friendship and treasure they have been for me over the last
few years.
23835. Sickness forcing some rest.
23836. Illianna and Heather to help pack boxes when I was feeling
puny, to get plain foods for me and pick up tape.
23837. Seeing Buket for a few minutes.
23838. A time of prayer and hamburgers in my home.
23839. Realizing I’ve lived almost a quarter of my life in Usak.
23840. Time of prayer on Sunday. Blessings and prayers of
strengthening.
23841. Hearing the Lord say “Well done, good and faithful servant.”
23842. Ismail and Erdal helping me to figure out how to get
permission for the moving truck to park on the street.
23843. Getting to bed early.
23844. A few minutes alone to remember the good at my Uşak home.
23845. Ismail getting emotional when he saw me emotional.
23846. The landlords saying they would miss me and saying how
respectful I had been.
23847. Lisa coming down to help me close out this chapter of my life
and get my stuff back to İstanbul.
23848. Laughing in the car about bird stories.
23849. 22 hours of sleep in 48 hours of time.
23850. Claire serving me and getting the apartment ready for me.
23851. Lisa talking to someone to get us on the university.
23852. Can Bey walking Claire and I around for 30 minutes trying to
find out where we needed to go.
23853. And then he bought our lunch.
23854. Getting lots of questions, answered at the university as well as
getting contact information for people.
23855. A quick sushi dinner with Kara.
23856. Easily getting transcripts and a diploma.
23857. Getting the application submitted.
23858. A day to crash and rest.
23859. A funny story about me trying to say hypotenuse as hippo-ten-
oos.
23860. H&L.
23861. Sage telling me he loves me and they’ll come see me wherever
I am.
23862. Seeing Porkchoplar.
23863. Peace during the bad news.
23864. Hearty and tasty chicken.
23865. Enough money to pay for the crazy expensive taxi.
23866. A sushi restaurant and grocery store right beside my hotel.
23867. Lisa to listen to me as I grieve.
23868. GL and Les taking time to listen and speak into my life and
make phone calls for me.
23869. A new Ellie Holcomb song speaking exactly what I needed to
hear.
23870. Chad and Deanna insisting on taking care of me.
23871. Brian B. also fighting for me.
23872. Permission to buy tickets.
23873. Chad driving me back to Famagusta when I was stranded in
Lefkoşa.
23874. H&L making it through PC.
23875. Getting to spend time with Orhan and Madlen.
23876. Chad and Heath taking me to the airport.
23877. Getting to see the Campbells for a couple minutes at IST.
23878. An open seat beside me.
23879. Breezed through PC in the states.
23880. Surprising my parents with a Santa headband.
23881. Getting Culver’s to eat.
23882. Finally napping in the car.
23883. Josh and Caley waiting up for me.
23884. Aubrey Rose in person!
23885. Ebru Hoca giving me feedback.
23886. Seeing all my family in one day.
23887. Hannah helping with my letter.
23888. Mary offering some money and a place to stay.
23889. The translated site redoing my translations after they wrongly
translated them into German.
23890. Crystal driving me back and forth to book club dinner.
23891. Good quality time with her.
23892. Sweet time with Hannah, Jolina and Kaitlin.
23893. Being generous and receiving generosity.
23894. Whoville through A Rose’s eyes.
23895. Matching socks with the big niecphews.
23896. Honey baked ham.
23897. Rediscovering my laugh.
23898. Post nap pic with Aubrey Rose.
23899. Christmas Day nap.
23900. Playing joker with family.
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