finally met someone from the East Bay here...

After class today I went with a friend to get student transit passes. We took our time on the way there, stopping first to get dürüm--Turkish wraps--and then have tea with the owner of a store, that primarily produced awards or medals for order, but also sold Turkish flag pins on the side, of which we bought a couple. Ah, Turkish hospitality. Upon arrival at the transit authority, we found the building crowded with people and learned shortly that, despite it being open for another hour and half, they were no longer giving out numbers for the line. Deciding that tea with the owner more than made up for the lack of a transit pass, we decided to take a winding route back to the metro, passing a beautiful English church, apparently built as a memorial to the Crimean War and promised to ourselves to come back to visit (the Chaplain was apparently out at the moment).

Outside the metro, I was handed a pamphlet explaining that the world was going to end on May 21 (in Turkish of course). Flipping to the back I realized that the pamphlet was being handed out by a certain Family Radio based in...wait for it...Oakland, CA. I decided to go back to the woman handing them out and inquire if she was from Oakland. As it turns out, she was from Alameda (a town next to Oakland, for my non-Bay Area readers). We chatted for a minute, but not really knowing what to say to someone who thought the world was going to end, cut the conversation short and headed towards the Metro. Way to go Bay Area, sending your crazies all over the world!