While we came back to istanbul I also with my another friend called Murat 3 days later. He is a skater too (again). But now we did something crazier, more enjoying, and harder. First we did a skateboard ramp which is more than half meter high and more than 1 meter long. We worked really hard for it. It took the half of the day. While we were testing the ramp Murat came with a crazy idea. He said that we could try to jump to the pool which is at my family's house's garden by using the ramp with a skateboard (Yes that was crazy!). First we carried the heavy ramp near the pol ant placed in a good place. We tightened the ramp to not to get injured. Because of floor was wet my friend pushed me with a long stick to keep my balance. When made the pop from the ramp I was in the air and I was shocked because it did worked well. We did this all day and tried to some tricks at the air. I was pretty fun!

I went back to Istanbul for a week at the middle of the summer holiday because my brother Mehmet, who is 3 years older than me, needs go to a teacher and finish his summer projects. My brother is in German high school and his school is the most strict school I have ever seen. He also has a teacher who comes to home. She is even more strict then the school, also she is the craziest teacher. My brother calls him "Crazy German". We came back to Istanbul not just for my brother, also my dad is working at a big project about wind energy. This year he was so busy! In that 1 week I met with 2 of my friends. First day I met with my friend Erel. He is a skater like me. I went to his home. Before going to his home we went to a shopping mall. At the sopping mall we went to new restaurant called "Shake Shack". They were making delicious hamburgers and chips. They are putting an interesting cheese sauce in to the chips. After eating our launch at Shake Shack we went to a skate shop to buy a new board for me. It didn't took much time. We leaved the mall after I bought my new board and we went to our friends home with a taxi. Erel helped me to change my board and we went to skate. At the end of that day I came back to home at 9 o'clock. I watched some series and ended up the day in my soft bed by dreaming about the next day.

   In the boat I have a little water sports boat which is called Sport Nautique 200. It is a wakeboard and a waterski boat. We do surf and stuff like that all day. We do that 5, 6 hours a day. First we do waterski every morning. I don't do it but my brother is the best skier. I don't have waterski because in Turkey there aren't any professional mono water skis for me, for my length and weight. "What is mono water ski?". Mono water ski is the original water skiing". You do it with one ski. You put one foot to front of your back foot. You do long slalom while going 32 miles per hour. If you re really good you will do it at the speed of 36 miles per hour. After water skiing at 7 o'clock in the morning we come back to our big boat and eat some breakfast. At the breakfast I usually eat cornflakes and some eggs. The captain does them and they are delicious! After breakfast we go to water sport with Nautique again. We do wakeboarding. We jump from waves, do tailgrabs in the air, do 180's and 360's. We also do some surf, wake surf (not wave surf). At wake surf, boats like Nautique has water tanks in their body. Nautique has 2 at the back, 1 right 1 left, and 1 at the front. Nautique gets 488 lbs water in it with 2 tanks and makes a huge wave. There is a little surf board. Not as big as real surf boards. It is like 1 meter 20 cm. We get up with a rope, a handle which is 5, 6 meter rope and when you catch the wave the adventure starts! You leave the rope and start to go on the wave without holding something. You do classic tricks which you do at the real surf, you can even sit on the surf board. You will understand it better from the pictures. After that we come back to big boat, yatch and eat launch. We eat lunch at 1.30. We have a free time until 6 o'clock. While that free time I do some drawings, watch series... At 6 o'clock we go to watersports again. We do some surf and wakeboard. Some times a fun thing called liftoff. You blow it up with air and lay on it and hold 2 handles. When the boat starts to pull you you go left and right, when a big wave comes you jump and fall from 2 meters, it is super fun. We end watersports at 7 o'clock. After that we eat dinner and we end the day by watching some comedy and action films.

  At the yacht ı usually do water sports or I work on my art projects...
  Art projects? I am a charcoal artist, I am not the best but not the worst according to my age. I also do some oil painting and I think I am pretty good at oil painting.
  At the boat I always do charcoal. I am upses with drawing hands, shoes, and humans.
  I like drawing hands because hands are the most interesting body part for me. Our hands have little bones, a lot of bones and muscles let them open and close by pulling each other. Our nails, they are so weird, when it comes to the shape of our hands, it's mysterious. We have interesting lines in our hands which has interesting shapes in it. I draw shoes because they help you to have better lines. The most important thing is human body's. I drew them a lot because it is just interesting for me. I always think about how we were created and how we live, all our sources (iron, gold, fuel...), how they came to earth and why are they even here... Drawing human beings lets me find little ways to my answers of these questions.
  Here are some of my drawings:

First Days of Summer

  Hi! My name is Ertugrul. I live in Turkey. My school was finished in 21st of June. So I planned to work on a "Summer Blog" which will help me to keep my memories safe.
  At the firt days of summer I was at home playing computer and skating with my homies. I skated a lot.
Also I went to my friends home to make a little skateboard ramp and make a session. We also went swimming with my friend. We had a lot of fun. 
  After a week from the closing day of the school I came here, to my family's yacht. Here is the place where my all summer stories starts from!