Today I took my first Marketing class and I think it will be my favorite course.
There are many students coming from Asia in the class. While discussing cultural factors on advertisement success, I am comparing Turks with North Americans and Eastern Asians.
Turkey is geographically in the middle, and culturally in the middle, too. The most popular career fields are quantitative sciences in Turkey. Parents want you to be doctor, dentist, engineer, etc. I remember my mother saying “Just have a doctor diploma, but then, if you want, you can be a guitarist.” She was worried about that I wouldn’t earn enough to survive if I kept playing Bach, Tarrega and Sanz.
I recall dreaming of being a guitarist -one of those typical teenage dreams.
My dreams changed in time, but not to be a doctor: I told my mother that my grades were not high enough to go to a medical school. I was lying. Years later I told her the truth.
In my first week in Canada I have started this blog as a project given by my Marketing Prof. Paul Kuruzc. I am excited about every new day I wake up to. I wonder what I will think about the posts I am about to write today when I read them after years. Will I find my past-self smart or not?
In any case, I can guess what my future-self will tend to do if she hates the quality of my current writing skills in this blog: She will edit them without changing any thoughts and feelings expressed by the Ayca-who-lived-in-2008.
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