KIZKALESİ(KORİKOS)

My favourite place is Kızkalesi,named "Korikos" in the Roman ages,situated in the west of Mersin and 60 km. far from it.Kızkalesi is a hidden paradise in the mediterranean sea.



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Kızkalesi with its cool weather ,magnificent scenery ,historical places and excellent beach is very attractive for vacationers.Tourists can visit the Narlı pit,the  heaven and hell cave, as well as Kanlıdivane with a sailing ship.



Beach

Hell Cave

I have been spending my summer holiday in Kızkalesi for five years.I always take great pleasure in being there since its sea makes me relaxed.Anyway,I can helplessly wander with my power wheel chair in its streets.
As a result,I can say that Kızkalesi is my favourite place to spend holiday every summer.

KIZKALESİ's STORY

Anciently,there is a beautiful girl whose father is a king who lives in this area.He loves his daughter so much.A day ,a sibyl divines that a poisonous snake will bite her.

Therefore,the king father has a castle built in the middle of sea in order to protect his daughter against the snake.She lives there for years.

A long time later,princess grows up.There is a fatality about her and it is unavoidable. The snake hidden in a bowl of fruit comes in the castle.And then it bites her.Unfornutely,she dies ,so the castle named "Kızkalesi"after this event.

Kızkalesi

A NEW LIFE

About four years ago,I was a disabled man in the late thirties who had to live in a room almost throughout the whole year by lying on the  bed as you see in photo1 below ,but now I am a student at  Gaziantep University; it is so incredible that even I can not believe this and I am writing down my first impressions here and my expectations of university as a blog homework of writing lesson .

Photo 1

To be honest,at the beginning of the school season,my impression was that there were lots of problems for the disabled.For instance,the biggest one of them was that there was architectural difficulty to come in some buildings because they had not got any ramps.Yet,in a short time , the rectorship of  Gaziantep University solved this problem,so I thank the rectorship for being interested in making the education of the disabled persons easy from here now.Anyway, both teachers and staff were very helpful.

The other significant impression I want to say was that my classmates had behaved very calmly and politely towards me as if I were one of them though I was so much older than them.

By the way,although I came to university with great expectations in order to speak english fluently ,I realised that it would not be so easy that I’d expected.Still,I hope that I will succeed in learning it very well since there is always a little hope in life.

In conclusion,I am happy with having a new life like this.But,I know that I should try to make it mine harder and harder because fortune may not smile on me once again.