Thursday, September 29, 2005

You can tell you need to get out more when...

... the big excitement in life is a new garbage can.

Yesterday the Konak Belediyesi - the administration for this part of Izmir - replaced the garbage bins on the street. We have big bins in front of every few apartment buildings, emptied every morning into an ordinary-looking garbage truck by men who physically lift the things and dump them. Until yesterday they were great heavy metal battered stinky blue things, and the emptying was accomplished with a lot of clattering and banging and shouting and smells. Yesterday a truck came along and put out a bunch of nice shiny new green plastic bins, and took away the old ones. Today I didn't even notice garbage collection. It's soooo exciting!

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