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yaramaz · Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject:

What is this site? I googled it and nowt relevant came up. I need to know!!!

sandyhoney2 · Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 189

http://groups.msn.com/englishgirlfriendsofturkishmen

Here's the link.

Cheers.

yaramaz · Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 5:54 am Post subject:

OMG

rachel1978 · Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 12

stories like that really annoy me! why are these women so stupid, they fall in love and lose all their senses. I guess they feel flattered that a younger man may fancy them but clouded judegement or what. I'm sure there are some genuine people who fall in love with younger/older people but why they sign things over to them is beyond belief. The worst place I went to was Tunisia, there was a british women in her fifties at the hotel who was married to the chef and had just moved out there with him. Before she met him he was sharing a small flat with 15 people all sleeping on the floor, no cooking/washing facilities etc earning �80-100 a month for 12 hour daily shifts! When they met on her two week holiday and she went home he would ring her and ask for money for food, cigarettes etc and then he decided he wanted his own flat and she sent money for a bond and paid 6 months upfront etc. Finally she moved in with him last year and they married, within a month of getting married he wanted �1,500 and would not give a reason why. She gave it to him and then he asked for more and luckily she hasn't given him anymore at the moment and when I met her they had been arguing about it again. How long this will last I don't know! In the same hotel the rep was dating the lifeguard who was earning �60 a month, she was going on about her wonderful boyfriend etc and then I found out he was going out with her once a week (if she was lucky) or making booty calls at the end of shifts. She had also given him �2,000 and he wanted more money, she hadn't made up her mind yet whether to give him more or not. Silly women!! they are everywhere!!!

justme · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1944 Location: Istanbul

Good rant, Rachel!

I can sort of understand why younger girls fall for this sh*t, but women in their 40s and 50s is mind boggling-- I mean, have they been locked in the house prior to their summer holidays, so that they have NO life experience whatsoever? I wonder what they would do if their daughter came to them asking for 1500 pounds to give her 'boyfriend' in another country, for an unspecified reason.

What also shocks me is how many people seem to believe in the EastEnders version of love: 'He says he loves me and wants to be with me and now we'll be together happily ever after.' Except apparently they don't learn anything from EastEnders either...

Again I reiterate how troubled I am that these people are reproducing!

rachel1978 · Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 12

yes I feel better now I've got that one off my chest! lol

Baba Alex · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 2411

justme · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1944 Location: Istanbul

Shocking, isn't it? Shocked

Why even provide people with television if they can't learn the many lessons it has to teach us?

yaramaz · Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 11:57 am Post subject:

I learned everything I know about teaching from that Taipei diaries series on Reality TV...

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Gill76 · Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 2

Hi Rachael,

I am thinking about doing the same thing as you. I have just returned from a year teaching in Turkey and as I have friends in Fethiye I would like to move there are teach privately, but I am not sure about the working visa etc.

Could you let me know how you are getting on - I am planning to return to Fethiye maybe August/September.

Thanks

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

You will have your work cut out. Trying to make a living with just private lessons is tough even in Istanbul and having lots of contacts and experience but in Fetihye which has endless numbers of Brits, some of whom teach voluntarily and an economy based on tourism six months of the year.

dagi · Joined: 01 Jan 2004 Posts: 425

"but he calls himself jeff because everyone says he looks like jeff Goldblum "

In Izmir I talked to a guy who called himself John, cause all his friends said he looked like John Travolta. He was one of these touts who follow you all around, keep bragging about all their foreign friends, want you to be one of them and of course have lots of cousins, brothers or whatever with shops and business you need to check out......

What's that thing with these guys giving themselves English nicknames?

Yabanci · Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 30 Location: China

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

If you have tried this then why do people tell you it is not possible?

Either you tried it and it was not possible or you tried it and found it not possıble.