Photo taken by Emily Dillard, my incredibly gifted daughter who recently bought herself a Macbook Pro using money she made through her jewelry business.
These mushroom chimneys stand on the edge of Çavuşin village. Look to the lower left and you can see our vineyard in the shadows of the setting sun.
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This is our home. Cappadocia tourism has deeply affected Çavuşin giving the residents a perspective that most village Turks do not possess. Only a few family trees are needed to give every resident a leaf, the true mark of a village, and yet almost every family has numerous relatives living in Holland and Germany, another quintessential mark of Anatolian villages. The upper church (the hole-y rock to the right) dates to the 4th century and the lower church to the 10th.
For those in America, Happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful for this village that has been our home since we moved to Cappadocia.
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Gather around boys and girls for another just-so story.
Today we are going to learn how Çavuşin became the name of a village in Cappadocia.
Was this the cave that served as home for the first Çavuşinli?
Many, many years ago before the Turkish Republic, before the Ottoman empire, before the Seljuks, when the Byzantines (Romans) lived here, some soldiers were stationed in Göreme (probably called Avcılar or Hunters at that time).
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What memories does the end of the school year bring to your mind?
Funny how my perspective has changed being a parent!
Diploma day!
Then, I thought about sleeping in and all the fun I was going to have over the summer. Now, I think about the fact that nothing changes for me and that we have to figure out how to keep the kids busy and not driving each other crazy.
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I see these pass by our house almost as often as cars.
Every third person in our village owns one, and spring is the time they are busiest as they are used to haul wood, brush, and rubbish from vineyards and fields.
They are so common we forget how uncommon they are. A neighbor rode up the driveway the other day just to talk. Only an hour or so later did we think twice about the fact that he was on a cart pulled by a horse.
Some days we think we not only moved across the world but also back in time!
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