Anlamadim, or in other words, I don't understand

Today was exhausting. We woke up too early for a Saturday and got on our bikes to catch the first dolmus (minibus) to go into the city for our first Turkish lesson. It was an adventure as you can imagine, a city the size of Phoenix, not speaking the language just a google map hand drawn. So we got on and off the first bus just fine and decided to hop on another bus that was heading the direction we needed to go, miraculously saw our street, got off and walked another five minutes to the language school.

Our lesson was going to be four hours long so we were gearing up for that. Our teacher is a Turkish linguistics student who just recently taught at the University of Florida. He is 24 years old and that's all we know about him personally. I had my reservations knowing that once they figured out how much Eric knew they would be excited to propel through the "easy stuff" to get to where he is at. This was already daunting as i knew that i would have to play catch up and try to get them to understand that i basically don't know anything.

So the lesson was fine, pretty disorganized and scattered. No notes were handed out so we had to write down everything he said and he expected us to know all the vocab (about 200 words/phrases) when we began to repeat things. After two hours i was so frustrated i was on the verge of tears. He would ask me a question in Turkish and i would have no idea what he said even though we were just doing the basics which i supposedly already knew.

So 7 pages of notes later i am decompressing and ready to work really hard this week and go meet with my Turkish friends to ask them ten times "How are you?" "How old are you" etc. etc. hopefully i won't get too down on myself.

After that we walked all the way back to the Adana Mosque through Arkadas park. It is GORGEOUS, fountains, flowers, beauty everywhere and it's huge, maybe 8 blocks by 4 blocks. Oooh here are perfect pictures. One is looking right up the sidewalk we walked on through arkadesh up to the globe and beyond that is the mosque and the other one is on the other side and you can see one of the buses and that is right where we got off our bus!