Picking up from where we left off. I have now completed my roughly one week-long Upper Rhine Graben field trip. So far, it has been the field trip I enjoyed the most. In general, I still find the geology of Turkey much more interesting. In terms of diversity and preservation, it is on a completely different level. Even just around Ankara, there are places where you can see practically everything you would cover in an entire year of an introductory geology textbook, and even m

Hello. I came to Turkey again, and once again I got sick... For some reason, I get sick almost every time I come to Turkey. I suppose it has something to do with the change in climate. In general, I am someone who gets sick very easily anyway. Whether it is a viral or bacterial infection, I seem to be absurdly sensitive to everything. I constantly get fevers, catch the flu, mess up my digestive system, and so on. I will not even get started on the allergies. I have an unbelie

A note for the record. In terms of both my physical and mental health, I have now almost completely made it through what I could probably call the hardest period of my life. I had slowly begun noticing the deterioration in my mental health toward the end of 2024, but for various reasons and because of certain misconceptions, I did not take any precautions. It manifested itself particularly violently during the first few months of this year. The reason I did nothing despite no