2010.

I was searching for a word to define what this year has been for me. Whenever I think about it, I am really having a hard time to come up with one single word covering all months. Yet I suppose, the two most outstanding feelings I have felt during this year would be love and stress.

Let's see what I have been doing since the beginning of this year:

• The first moments of this year, I was studying Inheritance Law. At 00:00, we toasted Jack Daniel's. Then I went back to studying (I got an A- from IL, so it was worth it).
• January was rather dull, since the beginning was mostly about finals. After finals, I was in Izmit. No biggy.
• February was mostly about MUNTR 2010 preparations, we have visited the hotel and all. Adaptation to the new and the final semester of my LL.B. life.
• March 1 -5, MUNTR 2010. This was the first time I have seen my face dehydrating. Red dots. An average of 2 hours of sleep every day. Approximately 23 kilometers of walking in 5 days. Exhaustion, sickness. Fun anyway. At the end of March, Fotini called me to meet up in Istanbul.
• April, Fotini came back into my life as my girlfriend after our reunion on April 3, 2010. We consider April 5 to be our anniversary. Midterms.
• May. Final exams start and final days emerge in Bilkent. Fotini arrives in Ankara by the end of the month. One word: Stress. Interviews. Job applications. Blegh.
• June. Fotini was in Turkey and we spent most of our time in Ankara and Değirmendere. I get accepted into White & Case Ankara.
• July. "Flashlights Beneath the Dust", July 1-5. Fotini leaves on July 5th, 2010 for Paris. July 21, 2010: I leave for Sweden.
• August. Sweden until August 14. Probably my best trip abroad. Perfect month. On my way back, I immediately return to Ankara and pack up to move to another place closer to work in Aziziye, Çankaya. Fotini moves to Brussels to study in ULB.
• September, internship starts. Fotini visits me again for two weeks. Adaptation process, realizations of student life being over. Short-term depression, sense of solitude, plenty of stress. Official internship at the Courthouse starts on September 20, to last a full year.
• October. Nothing significant.
• November, Fotini visits me back. Probably the best month of the year along with August. My first visit to Brussels. Nonetheless the best 10 days of the year. Lots of Duvel and many many others. Now I have a home in Brussels.
• December... World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is released. I have learned that two of my best friends are leaving for Europe in January.
• Today is December 30, 2010. It has been a radical year.
• Ankara has proven me right again about how significant it is in my life, and how it will simply go on even if I leave it one day.

Fun times. Fun year.