From Turkey With Love|| SKAM

Is This Love?

(Sunday, 25 juni 2017 and the coming days)

Sana added two songs to the playlist, “I feel it coming” with the Weeknd and “Smile” with Tupac and changed the name to “Songs for Sana (and Yousef)”.

Sana: Nais playlist! I approve

Yousef: :) you can add songs

Sana: Already did… and changed the name

Yousef: :D good name, I approve <3

Sana: Did you have a good Eid? any plans today?

Yousef: Yeah! Big party is tonight, meeting everyone again, we are many! And a lot of food!

Sana: It’s a bit cheating though, not fasting or praying, just keeping the parties and food!

Yousef: Yupp! I will never give up Eid. Or muslim new year

Sana: But what will you tell your 12 kids? About why?

Yousef: Ha ha, you are 3 steps ahead of me. They don’t even exist yet!

Do you play chess? Bet you’re a good chess player

Sana: I like chess :) haven’t played in… years…

Yousef: well, I think I’ll tell my kids something like, grandma and grandpa believes in Allah and aunt Emilie believes in Jesus and some people don’t believe…

Kids are smart, they get that. And when they are older they can tell me what they believe

Yousef: At the work we don’t talk about religion, but we let the kids talk. I have a colleague, she’s a great kindergarten teacher, she taught me that if they start asking deep, existential questions I can always ask them what the think. It is hilarious the answers you get

Sana: like what?

Yousef: Ok, one kid, three-year-old girl said that, when you die, you end up on TV

Sana: What? lol

Yousef: Yeah, and when I told her mum later she explained that they had watched this old kids show on TV and somebody had mentioned that the actor had died :D so it totally made sense!

Sana: Is that odd? do 3-year olds think about death?

Yousef: Some do. They try to understand the world around them. But they learn taboos quickly too, good or bad

Sana suddenly realised that she knows very little about kids, she never talks to them.

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Yousef stayed with his brother Cengiz and his family while in Istanbul, together with their pregnant sister Leyla and her husband, while the rest of the family, his parents and oldest brother Kasim with family, stayed at an aunt’s house nearby. He didn’t have much privacy with people always around, they had tried to skype twice but it was easier to just chat early mornings and late evenings. One time his two younger cousins had interrupted them on skyping on the balcony making strange noises and embarrassing Yousef.

Sana prefered chatting anyway. She could be more… smart and badass writing than talking. She had time to reflect before she wrote, she got bolder and liked their chatt-dynamic, teasing and joking with him. Sometimes she even waited to respond on purpose to make him a bit nervous and see if he would get impatient and write something more. It made her feel powerful, wanted and in control.

On skype she would get more shy and distracted too. Even losing her trail of thought and forgetting what she wanted to say. It happened to Yousef all the time too, and it was both adorable and awkward. And they never really knew how to end the conversation.