This past Sunday, on our day off, we went to a rather interesting festival in one of the nearby villages. In this part of Turkey, wrestling is the major sport, and the nearby village was hosting a big wrestling event for the first time in its history. It was extremely hot as we watched the event. The wrestles started off fairly young and each successive match, the contestants got older. The match just before the heaveyweight finals, was between two old men who were champion wrestlers in the early 70’s. Before the match started, the announcer made a special notification to the paramedics to be ready since the men were “really old”. this made all the spectators laugh. They never did finish the match as the village leader broke it up early and declared them both the winner (I imagine to avoid any possible medical problem of a prolonged match). It is rather exciting to be able to attend cultural events while working in the field