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Click for the welcome song . 30/5/18 Izmir/Turkiye Once upon a time, to be exact, in 2018, my ex-boyfriend and I were hanging out at my fav place, Ikea 💛💙, in Izmir. Having had dinner, we passed by the food market. I bought a candle box full of cookies. As a romantic person, no chance to help your candle love :p. The surface design of the box was illustrated with Nyhavn’s beautiful buildings. When I saw Copenhagen writing there, I commented, "I do really want to go to Denmark one day," with a childish traveller’s excitement and longing. He responded, "North countries are too expensive to travel to." Years later, life made me end up living in Denmark for one year, let alone just travelling there, lol. It was not pure joy but a challenging experience. I was working with disadvantaged children in a special school there. That’s another story.  I went to Copenhagen a couple of times that year. The first time I arrived in Copenhagen and then went to Nyhavn, I admired wh...

Click for Joe Cocker's perfect performance  in Woodstock ✌🏻 7.10.22 Bilkent University - Ankara/Turkiye P.S. Two lucky hedgehogs since, apparently, they found each other. :) This is the writing that I've been putting in a few sentences whenever I captured a moment to do so the whole pretty demanding year in Bilkent. So I made it July to share it with you, finally :). Let's get started to talk about hedgehogs, then.  I have a feeling that reminds me from time to time that makes me close to hedgehogs, for some reason, which I want to talk about here. I hope to touch on some common points other hedgehogs in this writing. Why? Cos, I want to defend and normalise this feeling experienced.  What does being a hedgehog sound like? What are the first associations in your mind about it? Being untouchable.. cute.. a half smile on a face.. sharp and risky quills that could be harmful at any moment, a thing that makes you hesitant to contact it anyway?! ..and more and more. This conc...