Yesterday was not terribly exciting. I hung out in the hostel most of the day. For lunch I walked to a doner shop on Istiklal and had one on a pita. It was delicious. I considered this walk to be decent exercise for the day and stayed at the hostel for awhile. There were a few new people around, so everyone just hung out and chatted and a couple people painted the walls. (There are paintings everywhere, mostly of cats, because the owner allows people a night free if they paint something, usually artists). Later, Julien (one of the artists) suggested going to see a Turkish filmed, so I joined him. We first stopped at the French embassy to eat. Julien was wanting something different from the We went to a theater with only Turkish films, but it was closed. The only other theater we could find was showing American films. We watched moonrise kingdom. It was really good, very different and entertaining. I would recommend it. About half  way through the movie it shut off and a couple commercials played before the screen turned off and the lights came on.... We were really confused. Who has an intermission at a movie theater? It was like 20 minutes long too. Very strange. Eventually a couple more commercials played and the movie came back on. Even when so close to American culture you find something unusual and foreign.