A Personal Story by Cemre Cicek Tumer

job

aynimoyildirim — 2024-10-01 17:22:37 UTC

One day I told my mother that I wanted to get a job. She said okey. After that I met someone while I was looking for a job. He said that we could work together next to him. After a little thought it made sense. I got ready to go to the job meeting the next day. At first they thought a little because I was not 18. After begging for a while they decided to take me to the job. I was very excited when I came to work the next day. It was very hot day and I was outside. And I wasn’t doing anything. I was just trying to get customers in. I let 2 people in in 2 hours. I was so bored. Then I went on break and called my mom. I told her that I was very bored and wanted to quit my job. She said Ok. Then I ran away without saying anything to anyone because I was ashamed. In the end They called me for 2 hours, then I put the phone on airplane mode and went to sleep.

Prom Day or University’s Announcement

necabet — 2024-10-01 18:25:42 UTC

On the 19th of July, two events were supposed to happen on the same day. Ankara University’s answers and prom day. I had to choose one of them, besides, the time of announcement of the answers was unknown. The day before, I had decided that I wouldn’t attend prom. So, I had warned my classmates and went straight to my bed. It was very hard to fall asleep for the first 2 hours. I was so nervous that I forgot how to sleep.

The morning hadn’t started any better. My hands felt almost glued to the phone and I was checking the University’s website. This went on for 9 hours. I was still checking the notifications. I looked like a real freak. My parents tried to distract me, but failed.

My torment had been over. An announcement appeared on the website. And I found out that I got faculty of law, as I wanted.

It was worth it, but I would never want to feel that much nervous again.

2024-10-01 18:42:39 UTC

When I was 7th grade I was going to Boğaziçi study course and I had a friend named Eren. We got along very well. One Saturday we both went to course by bikes. When the class is finished we decided to hang out and he said "Lets go to Erdek with bikes". It was crazy for me at first but I agreed in the end. I don't know how but I agreed. We started cycling and it was going good at first. When we were halfway there we decided to have a break. When we are sitting I noticed that my tire was flat. First we panicked but later we decided to walk to Erdek with our bikes to fix my tire. When we got there a old couple saw and helped us fixing the tire. They even took us atleast 5km and we rode our bikes to Bandırma at the end.

2024-10-01 18:54:24 UTC

I was going to cram school last spring. It was a normal day. I was on my way to the bus station. I saw a crow. It was flying around. I didn't mind it and I kept walking. Suddenly, It came towards me and attacked me. I screamed and ran fast. I ran for a while then crow stopped to follow me. It didn't hurt me physically but I was terrified.

sudenurpekvardar — 2024-10-01 19:12:56 UTC

Last year at this time me and my two close friends went to watch a volleyball match. The match was a men's match of Ziraatbank and Fenerbahce. The winner would receive the cup. Ziraatbank won the match and the cup ceremony was held, and then everyone left the hall. As with every match exit, meatball-bread sellers had blocked the entire road. Somehow after we got out of that way, we started walking and talking to my friends. My friend Zeynep suddenly stopped and bent down, elif and I didn't understand what she was doing. She picked up the credit card from the floor. The credit card was a Ziraatyoung card. We thought that the owner was one of the Ziraat infrastructure players. Since it was after the match, there were a lot of police around. We told one of the police officer. He said he couldn't take the card, he couldn't help us, and we had to leave the card where we found it. All three of us were shocked and it seems annoying. We decided to write the name on the card from Instagram. The man answered immediately and sent us his number. We called the man and told him where we were. after 5 minutes, the man came and took the card. He said that he was the conditioning coach of the Ziraat team, that he dropped it while eating meatballs after the match. He thanked us and asked us what we wanted in return. So we said we didn't want anything, we were doing it for a favor, but the man kept insisting. He said I can invite you to watch training or I can give you a jersey. We said we didn't want anything again. He asked which player we liked the most. All three of us said Bedirhan Bülbül. He said that he would give Bedirhan's jersey to all three of us and that he got along very well with Bedirhan. He thanked us and said that he would send his jerseys in 2 weeks and left. after 2 weeks, what the man said came to our mind and my friend sent a message. 3 Hours after my friend sent the message, the guy blocked my friend. So I texted his number and of course he blocked me too. It seemed annoying and strange to all three of us what the man did. We were both deceived and helped the man.The man has shown us again that we should not trust men!!

my little mistake :)

meriboz08 — 2024-10-01 19:13:45 UTC

When I was 3 years old I was playing my brother at home and there was a hallway connecting the kitchen and living room. So when we stopped playing I walked out of the hall and before the incident happened I was wondering around the kitchen. Then I saw my brother leaning towards the remote control on the couch and I wanted to catch it so I ran along the hall to get remote control. Then as I jumped I bent my knees. After that I broke his arm but hopefully doctor told that it wasn't critical

2020 Turkey GP

20186e471 — 2024-10-01 19:15:41 UTC

In 2020 September, me and my dad decided to buy a ticket for Formula 1 Istanbul Grand Prix. We bought 2 tickets for us. I was looking forward to watching the race. But we didnt buy the plane tickets (luckily). After 2 or 3 weeks later they announced the races will be without audiences because of increase on the Covid19... When I heard that I was really disappointed about it. After couple of weeks, race time has come.Lewis was starting from 6th place but it didn't take long for him to take first place. After winning the race Hamilton won the championship for seventh time too.

car accident

ybpgm66 — 2024-10-01 19:23:11 UTC

This happened when I went to center of Ankara. My parents and I had some plan about buy something. I needed pants and a chair[because my old chair had broken] We wrote down our needs in a sheet of paper. My father took carkey and we left the house. At first, went to the furniture shop for buying a chair after that, we went to cloths shop, as soon as finished the shopping we ate some food. After that we went to gençlik park for sitting in the grass. I found the best sitting area. After sitting, we left the park because it was past six pm. we were going to the free car garage for took the car. our return started. While we were waiting in redlight, one of the bus hit our car very fast as soon as turned green. After hitting I had hit my head on the glass, I fall into a coma after accident. In the end I woke, Unfortunately I don’t remember anything else about accident.

Amazing theather play

2024-10-01 19:39:17 UTC

I was going to the theather with my friends. We were watching "Bir Düş Gibi: Cahide Sonku" at İzmir Konak State Theater. It was amazing. The actress's performance was great. And it was her hundredth theather play. It was care about the life of Cahide Sonku. She had a tragic life. I think everyone should watch this theather play. I felt really lucky that I had watched this theater play.

2024-10-01 19:59:33 UTC

One day me and my two friends decided to run away from school because we got bored so much. We ran away from school and we started walking. After ten minutes a couple came towards us and they asked “how can we go to the perfume shop?” I didn’t know that shop but my friends said “we know that shop you can follow us we will pass by there”

We spoke with them while we were walking. They were French and a little bit old but they walked so fast and the weather was very hot. Thats surprized us. They were like younger than us. We walked around 45 minutes and we found the perfume shop. Of course they said thank you that was so normal but then the woman tried to give us money. We didn’t except money but in the end she put the money to my pocket.

Finally we said thank you and good bye. They gave 5euro to us my friend said let’s go to the change office. We changed it to Turkish lira and we drank ice coffee in a coffee shop.

Football Match

2024-10-01 20:03:32 UTC

When I was 12 years old Galatasaray was coming to Izmir for a football match and I am a fan of Galatasaray. While it was getting boring in the class my older brother had come to school and got me out of school. He told me that he had suprise for me so I was excited. We had taken my older brother's friend and we went to the stadium 2 hours before the first whistle. Galatasaray won that match 3-1 against Karşıyakaspor so it was a good memory of mine and it is the only match that i watched from the stadium. I hope I will go another Galatasaray matches too. But that day we couldn't get out easily because fans of opposite team was waiting us outside. You know it is never calm or peaceful when the match is in Turkiye. In the end we could get out after 1 hours of waiting. Even I felt anxious, worried and stressful after the match; it was so fun to go and support my team.

2024-10-01 20:51:47 UTC

On June 9, I had an exam called AYT. Even in 2 a.m. and 7 a.m. I was trying to repeat all of my notes, all of the topics we learned in whole high school. I was thinking like "It will be great, you will be great after that" Yeah I felt better after that but not during the exam.

My brain was like filled and exploded like some of my friends' tears. I wanted to cry too btw, but I didn't. By the time we arrived home I learnt the Science Center in our city had announced that Alper Gezeravcı will visit the science fair! And the science fair was in the park which is so close to our home. I asked my brother and my parents to come with me but they were tired and not really into this. My last remaining healthy brain cells told me: "Don't listen to them, you might be regret it you can go alone" But rest of my cells were reasonably tired to listen and my body was too tired to move, too. Even if it was in the park across from our house.

Stair incident

2024-10-01 21:32:19 UTC

It was a rainy friday, as always. The boy wanted to sit in the front of the school bus because the front is a lot comfortable for him. While singing the national anthem he was the closest student to the door. As soon as anthem finished he was started to run but things didn't go well. It had rained a lot and he was wearing a slippy shoes. When he took his third step at the stairs he slipped and falled. Everyone had laughed before he felt anything. By the time an angel came and asked him "You, good?" He said "Yes, I'm fine" but he wasn't fine he wanted to curl up and die. In the end his friends came and help him get into car. He tried to sit but his back hurt a lot so he had to sit in the back.

2024-10-01 21:35:37 UTC

This happened when I was in Antalya Kaleiçi with my friends last summer. We were walking around and taking pictures. After that we sat on a bench to take a rest. I put down my bag and my glasses. By the time our friend called us, we packed our things in a rush. We got in the car and we went a few hundred meters. After that I put my hand on my head to wear my glasses and it wasn’t there… We couldn’t go back and even if we did we probably wouldn’t find it in that crowd. I felt terrified because my dad would be upset so I didn’t tell him about this. I am not wearing glasses since then. As soon as I got the opportunity I will go see a doctor and get new glasses…

2024-10-02 00:27:29 UTC

When I was 14. One day, my friend and I decided to play video games until the morning. After that we played some video games and spend time online. Then I asked a question to my friend " lets go to the football pitch and shall we play footbal" it was 6 in the morning. My friend accepted my offer. After that we met outside and we rode bikes to the football pitch. The football pitch was 2-3 km away from our houses. when we arrived the footbal pitch .we could play football for only ten minute because we were very sleeply. We could't see in front of our eyes. And we said that what are we doing here at 6 a.m. Then we came back our houses. As soon as we arrived our houses , we slept.

Course

nnn123 — 2024-10-02 04:19:57 UTC

When I was kid , I was attending to a course and one day , they decided to take away us to swimming pool. We went to swimming pool and we had great time after that we had to wear our clothes and dry our hair but I was a little bit late so I didn't do these things and when everyone went for the bus. I was still there then I thought our bus had already gone . I immediately asked everyone and finally I found my bus. I was really scared and nervous. I was wet and my bonnet was still on my head . I went to home like that