✈️A T L A N T I C I N S T I T U T E✈️

Like I mentioned in my last blog post, I'm going on a trip somewhere. So, I'll talk more about the trip when I come back but for now I'll tell you that It's somewhere in Europe. I actually won an art competition that was run by Atlantic Institute a couple months ago and the prize was a trip to Europe. I've actually won this competition four times and the first time I won the trip was to Turkey.

Like the trip I'm going on this time it's just gonna be me and my mom then we meet up with the others in the group. We went to Turkey for 10 days and it was quite the adventure. My mom and I started off our trip and met the rest of the group in Istanbul. There were about 5 other participating students that had won who came on the trip with their respective teacher. So, we adventured throughout the country visiting Istanbul, Izmir, Ankara, Konya, Ephesus, Cappadocia, and Bursa (maybe more but I don't remember). On the last trip I think I was like 10 or 11 so its been a pretty long time.

My favorite thing from the Turkey trip was when we got to visit the sponsoring families. There was this one amazing family who had this garden next to their house and it was so legit. There was a cherry tree and now every time I see cherries I remember that family. But, while we were there we literally saw everything there was to see; The Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia, Library of Celsus, Whirling Dervishes and a ton more. It was a great experience and I really love traveling so I can't wait for this trip and many more to come.