Resume

I was as surprised as you the other day, when I received the photos from my manager (my uncle) regarding the front-page cover on the magazine and the billboard advertising that followed. Also in these times of crisis it is important to be alert so I therefore decided to update my resume.

Name: Josefine Defne Troelsen

Address: A room in my parents house

Phone: Yes

Fax: What is this?

Email: Of course

Troelsen family, Istanbul

June 2008 - present

In my current position I have the role of only child in a family consisting of my mum and dad. This job requires my present 24x7 and I put all my energy and strength into providing challenging positions to those reporting to me (mum, dad and my nanny). Since the appointment of Sehnaz as my nanny my workload has increased by 50% from handling 2 people full time to now 3 people full time. My employers have of course not provided me with any salary increase or additional benefit dispite of this large increase in my responsibilities.

Main achievements: Can sit without support, can keep parents up all night if I want, ability to clap, wave, cry when hungry/sleepy/bored/want attention. I can also pull hair/glasses and other loose things. Almost crawling.

Minimum package: Full service in terms of food, cloth washing, diaper change when required, personal washing, daily walks, entertainment when bored, new toys on regular basis, my mum when I cry.

Interests: Toys (preferably noisy), being carried, eating, sleeping

References: My grandparents, as they always love me and I cannot do anything wrong according to them.

Move and birthday

Finally I am back online. Last month I made the decision to move to a new place, as I was getting tired of living in the same place for such a long time. I had, at that time, been almost 8 months in Anadolu Hisari, so it was time to move on. So I found a new place with proper access for me to go outside and a playground, grass to play on and a pool for summer. You can see more on http://www.arteverde.com.tr/ Since I moved I have had a lot of trouble with the internet provider, so only this week did I get my ADSL back up again.

Last weekend it was my dad's birthday. Everybody was here and we celebrated with a very nice cake. At least I think that it is nice, but they did not give me any of it. Instead I got my normal soup of potato, broccoli, carrot and rice, which is not very interesting. Next year I am going to eat a lot of cake.

Last I want to inform about a couple of new things that I have learned recently. Firstly, I can now scream really loudly especially when I see my parents after they have been at work the whole day. My mum has by the way started to work again, so I miss her a lot during the day. I also think that she misses me. Secondly, I am eating all sorts of food and especially fruit now. I do not really like fruit and they are giving me orange, which is very sour and my whole body shakes when I get that.

Photos...

my father and me...

Happy birthday to Grandmam

It was my grandmother's birthday, so very much happy birthday. I am sorry that the update has been taking a little bit long, but I have been sick. It was not very interesting, as I have big problems sleeping and I was snoring too much, so sometimes I would wake myself up.

Other than that I have a nanny now. She is now my second nanny as the first one did not meet my standards, so I had her changed. The one I have now is very nice and I like her a lot.

I am eating all sorts of new things all the time. Some of it I like a lot like my broccoli, potato, carrot and rice mash, which is very nice. In the beginning I also like apple and pear, but now this is not so interesting anymore. So I spit it out again, but they just keep feeding it to me. Today I had banan for the first time, which was not too bad, so as you can see I tried to eat it nicely.

Christmas and New Year

First of all happy New Year to all of you.

I have spent some time travelling since my last post, but now I am back in Istanbul in my normal surroundings and it is not half bad.

We went to Denmark for Christmas. It was nice to be back in the old country and see my family there again. I got a cradle in the plane to sleep in which was nice, but about 5cm too short for me, so I had to put my legs outside while I was sleeping.

In Denmark we enjoyed Christmas. I especially liked the Christmas tree with all the colours and sparkly things on it. The highlight of the trip was when I had my first tooth. It is nice to have teeth as I can now bite things. I like to bite my parents so that they don't forget me. Not that I think that they will but it is nice to be sure.

We came back to Istanbul just before New Year's evening after a stop in Hamburg to see Stefanie and Ivan. I did not enjoy the trip back very much as it is quite upsetting for me to have to travel this much within 10 days, so I let people know about this in no uncertain terms.

Also during this period I have started to eat other food than my mum's milk. some of it I like very much, but some of it I do not appreicate at all, so I just spit it out again if I do not like it.

Kurban Bayrami (Sacrifice feast)

During the last week I have had 4 days off due to the public holiday of Kurban Bayrami. This is the muslim holiday for sacrificing. The tradition is to sacrifice a ram or an ox and then share the meat with the poor.

For this we went to my grandparents for a couple of days. Many of our relatives in Istanbul came to visit us there on the first day of the holiday. On the second day we then made the return visits. In each visit we then have a lot of food and of course some of the ram which has been sacrificed. It is very nice to see all the family and to get the news from what is happening in their lives at the moment.

I did well the first day and talked and smiled to all the people visiting. On the second day it was getting a bit tiring, so I got annoyed with all the eating and talking and not being able to follow my normal schedule of eating and sleeping.

It was therefore necessary for me to make a point to my parents, and I therefore choose to wake up in the middle of the night for a couple of nights or three. Not really for any particular reason other than I wanted to.