I had a good day at school today. I learned more German; I can now say "my native language is English" (Meine mutter sprache ist Englisch) and "my home country is America" (Meine vatersland ist America), and I impressed my English teacher. No, not with my knowledge of the English language, but rather with my knowledge of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
We were talking about my school, Afyon Lisesi, which is actually a very historic place. It was founded in 1894 and both the current President of Turkey, as well as a former one, graduated from there. Atatürk also visited my school, which makes it pretty special. My teacher asked me if I knew anything about Atatürk, so I told her I knew that Atatürk is considered to be the Father of Modern Turkey because Turkey took huge steps towards modernization under his direction. He also instituted modern Turkish as the official language written with Latin characters, and he ended the Ottoman Empire, and started the Republic of Turkey with a democratic government. My teacher was impressed by all this and she asked me where I learned it. I told her that I learned this in History Class, WHAP (World History AP) class, to be more specific. All that homework two years ago was worth it, here is proof that WHAP can actually be useful in the outside world.

When I got home, I found out that I will be going on a trip to Cappadocia next week with other Rotary Exchange Students. I am really excited about this, I have been wanting to go to Cappadocia since I came to Turkey. In the mean time, smile everyone, because tomorrow's Friday! Hope everyone has a great weekend!