Quite a stir!

So, as you all know ergo previous blog about Turkey's internet being closed; There may be a lot of technical difficulties tonight and for the next couple days. The reason for this is because people have decided to protest the fact that there is going to be a shut down of many things pertaining to the internet on the 22nd of August. This means I have to do a lot of preparing. 
   For me it might be the end of the world. 
 Let me give you an idea:
 I speak to my mom and skype about once every month. This is because my mom and dad do not know how to use the internet very well (fear not! When I come this Summer will be teaching them about the internet and I will have complete reference index cards to refer to as well: They are going to LOVE İT!) 
  I email my mom almost on a daily basis and I have my kids that are very important to me that I email all the time. I have friends and family that I email and the best way for me to stay in touch is email. Calling you say? Well, in Turkey to have a landline is hugely expensive just for basic service. Now they have a deal where by you can get internet, landline and mobile phone for a package deal but even that is expensive. The internet effects text messaging too. 
  Yes, this is true. Our little mobile phones although we do not think of them as such are little computers. They need internet in order to send a receive text messages, pictures and voice messages on a "mms" multimedia service message. If we get closed down on the internet it will also effect how we do banking here in Turkey too. (we do not have the checking system I love so much in Utah!)  ATM's are controlled with the internet. Remember the big hype about Y2K scare when we were changing everything to make sure that the computers read 2000?  Well, That is because everything is done from the internet now.
 Is it the end of the world? 
 Well... If I have to go back to snail mailing my mom and dad, not looking at FB and not seeing my family, I admit it will not kill me per say, But HECK YEAH! It will KİLL me! 
 I do my English lesson preparation with the internet. OK. I love LOVE reading real books and touching them and the smell of newly printed books but heck I love reading my friends blogs and looking at what my family is doing also and it makes things easier and less expensive to talk. It costs 2 dollars a minute to call me and then there are fees on top of it to call me. For me to call it is about 3 dollars a minute and plus there are sometimes fees to family members. Some family members said to not call because it is not free for them when I call!!!  Things we can love to live with out but love to live with!!!