Things are going full speed ahead here. The journalism conference is myself and 14 other journalists from around the globe. We have people from Asia, Africa, South America, Europe and India (don’t know which continent that technically fits into). We are also represented by nearly every ethnicity on earth, except for Aleutian-Americans, which is fine because nobody wants those whale-eaters around to ruin the party.
Yesterday we were at NPR and today we went to the Heritage Foundation, a think tank, and a prominent DC newspaper. We are also hearing each other’s presentations on the state of the media in our respective countries.
Last night we went out to a very American restaurant that had burgers, ribs and the like. The others asked me what an American meal would consist of, so I told them to completely ignore salad or anything even remotely healthy on the menu. When it came time to order drinks a few of them tried to get white or red wine. I hung my head in frustration and thought to myself “This must be what its like for Turks when us Americans order a Coke with a kepab and not an ayran.”
More to come later.
