The Rhythm project has met three times and you can begin to hear the group coagulate by the unity of the beat. It's beginning to sound like one pair of hands playing each beat instead of forty. There are still three more meetings next week. We decided to leave our weekend free, so there may be hope of me getting home before 10 in the evening one of these days-don't want to jinx it though. Aside from a solitary snare drum, the instruments in the picture (I play one that is like the big glass jar) and hand-clapping are all we are working with. The beats are pretty simplistic and range from classic "We Will Rock You", latin, and arabic style rhythms. It feels really great to be involved in something outside of work and aiesec, with really great people, and especially involving playing with instruments!

All of this working and playing isn't leaving me much solitary time to read my book. When I come home at night I attempt to read until I pass out, and usually only make it a chapter or so if I'm lucky. Now I know what it feels like to read a book at an average pace-good because it makes it last longer, but bad because I'm always thinking about the damn thing!

In other news a new trainee has joined the Bursa trainee ranks. She is from Japan and I have yet to meet her. This weekend is another one of those famous reception tours, this time it's the Troy Tour. Though the thought of gettin' rowdy with a bunch of aiesecers is tempting, I decided not to join it. I've seen a lot of the historical places associated with that area-Chanakkale, Gallipoli, etc. I'm glad to have seen them, but once was enough for me.

I'd rather use this weekend as an opportunity for some qt with my friends who will be going in the next week or so.