Now poor ba3eee .. we slaughtered one .. and the other was got so lonely and decided to play some soccer :D  

Now look at these cute ba3eeeks ... we were going to a picnic .. so we bought two ... they looked like they were friends ... then unfortunately ... one had to go first ..... (slaughtered) 

Thie is when the apples were out in our farm .. so we went to pick them .. the blue basket was mine .. i think i picked all the rotten ones lol  

This is what the fruit and vegetables were put in .. they were outside in boxes .. mmm and the watermelon was open ... too much bacteria and bugs around :s  

NOWWWWWW if you are wondering how the stores and makert are in kurdistan .. i took 3 pics .. people were looking at me like (hey wat are you doing) .. so i didnt take alot  

And these Mish_Mish (appricots) .. YUmmy they were soOooo GOOD !  

This Picture was taking in the Gund (village) i belong to ..  

Beautiful houses .. All in Kurdistan ..  

Look at this house .. Pay attention to the wires .. lol .. it was all for electricity  

This is my cousin's home .. also in 7al Al-Malayin .. the housees are so colorful  

Bumper Cars @ Dream CIty ;)  

Dream City had Video Game hall .. It actually had some of the games that we have here .. It was fun for kids =)  

Ummm .. Dream City was no Dream City .. Before Going there all my cousins were like .. Oh let's go to dream city .. I thougth it was big deal .. It really wasn't .. Actually for us the people visiting them it wasn't so much of a big deal .. But to them it was =) Coz that's all they have so far ..  

.. Welcome TO Dream CIty .. LOL Kurdistan's Recreational Park ..  

This is another pic of Ashawa ..  

When the weather was not so bad .. People could actually go out and enjoy their time .. This is called "Ashawa" .. It's in duhok .. We had so much fun here .. I would walk up and down the stairs with my cousin .. The water was freeziing !!  

This was also a pic that i took from the balcoy .. Just showing the beautiful Mountains .. I miss them so much .. Stinky Nashville has no mountains ........  

I love this pic .. Just outside of our house .. This family had a lil garden and a place to make bread in which we call "tanir" in kurdish .. Their bread was real good!! She made (sawket gijnij, and regular bread) .. One thing that i was surprised with was ... They don't make kurdish bread their anymore!! They just do the regular bread .. OR take their flour to a bakery and have them bake it for them ..  

This is a picture of kids that made their own soccer field .. It was all dust and looked nasty to play in .. But that's all that those kids had =) And they looked like they enjoyed it very much =) 

I took this picutre from the balcony of the house we stayed in .. The mountains are beautiful =)  

This is the hosue we stayed at .. The place was called "7ay Al-Malayin" .. Umm I guess to translate that to english it would be the Millioner Place or Street ( I guess) .. I really liked the house we stayed in .. We had it all to ourself .. But it was too much work .. We had guest everyday .. WE had to clean the house like wash it all .. And dishes .. Oh god so much work!! 

Turkey was too much fun .. Even though the people were not very nice and respectful .. I didn't care! I went there to enjoy the place, which i definately enjoyed.

Once we got to Zaxo boarder! Oh you dont know the feeling! It's such a nice feeling to feel that its true you're stepping in Kurdistan. We first had to stop at this Kurdish station. They were so nice!! They brought us tea and we asked us where we came from. This guy had some family in Nashville that we know .. IT was fun talking to them .. After that we drove 10 minutes to meet our our relatives .. I don't know how to describe my feelings towards what happened when i saw my uncles, cousings, aunts, and best of all my grandma. Oh i just didn't know who to hug and i just cried and cried .. It was such a happy moment .. The drive from Zaxo to Duhok was about an hour .. On the way i saw all the beautiful mountains of Kurdistan .. IT was just too beautiful =)

If you put the issues of hot weather aside, Kurdistan is the best .. Its so much better to live between ur family .. and ur own people .. But it was just hard .. Once you get used to living outside of kurdistan .. Its hard to go back and actually live there ..

I went to many places and had a lot of fun .. now for some pictures from Kurdistan Rangin ..... =)

This was outside of the Sultan Mehmet musume. Beautiful =)  

This was just AMAZING!! This shirt belonged to one of the sultan's. I bet that sultan was very fat coz the shirt was huge. But the intresting thing was that all over the shirt the quran was published on it.  

This is Sultan Mehmet Mosque. These were all mosque but they turned them into musumes. Just beautiful. 

This is a summary of what the haja sofia is.  

This is how the inside of Haja Sofia looked it. They had names of the Khalifas of the prophet Muhammad (s) written on the walls.  

This is the Haja Sofia also called Aya Sofia Mosque which is now a musuem. They told us it was a mosque then they turned it into a church and turned it back into a mosque. At the end they made it into a musume.  

This was a mosque just a block away from the Madrid hotel that we stayed @ in turkey. 

Getting There .....

My trip to kurdistan was awsome! I went to alot of places and enjoyed it very much. I would like to start this blog and put pictures and talk a little about my trip.


We left from Nashville to Chicago was about 120 minutes. It was my first time going to Chicago airpot. It was huge!! Alot bigger than stinking nashville airport.

The flight from Chicago to Istanbul was about 12hours. It took forever to get there. The plain was full of turks. There was only one Kurdish family with us from Minnesota.

We got to istanbul safely alhamdulila! A kurdish guy at the airport helped us with our luggage and took us to a hotle. The hotel was called "Madrid Hotel". The owner were turki kurds. They spoke some weird kurdi. I couldn't understand a word they were saying. One guy spoke english thank god.

We stayed in istanbul for 3 days. I enjoyed it very much. We went to Haja Safia musuem. It was so beautiful. I've never seen a mosque that big.

We went to a resturant to eat lunch. The food was so nasty. The guy was smoking and serving food at the same time. IT was so discusting!!!

Then we went to the shopping center. Ummmmmmmm they had cute clothes =) Shopped there for hours.

At night we were so tired but we still went out and just took a walk around the place.

The next day we went to Sultan Mehmet Musuem. It was kind of similar to haja sofia. But there was something special here. We went inside and saw Prophet Muhammad (s) sword and other things that blonged to prophet Muhammad (s). It was so amazing that they still have that in the musume!

The next day we packed our stuff and took the plane from Istanbul to Diyarbakr. It was about 2hrs. Diyarbakir's airport was very small. They didn't even have terminals! We had to come out of the plane on the stairs.

They they drove us from Diyarbakir to Zaxo. I hated it ! The turkish jerks made us stop in their checking stations so many times. It took us forever to get there.

Well i took a lot of pics in turkey and kurdistan. I'll just post them and have a little note of where they were taken =)