Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey. In daring to disappoint, Samanci disappoints none here. Growing up on the Aegean Coast, Ozge loved the sea and imagined a life of adventure while her parents and. The journey she chronicles here – a personal history told through spectacular graphics impossible not to giggle, sniffle, guffaw over (find that snarky bird!) – is poignant and funny, bittersweet and illuminating, entertaining and inspiring. To “dare to disappoint” turns out to be her first step toward her own future. “In the midst of the noise that I grew up with I could not hear my own voice,” Samanci realizes. Meanwhile, beyond her immediate world of family, friends, and school, her country experienced its own coming-of-age, from fundamentalism and militarism to signs of moving toward more secularism, then back again to political mayhem. She struggled with her mathematics degree. She considered taking to the stage. She spoke to a poster of Jacques Cousteau about a life in the sea. No matter how hard Samanci worked to comply, sister Pelin set a near-impossible pace for achievement. by Ozge Samanci (Author) 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 175 ratings. Throughout the rest of her youth into young adulthood in Turkey, Samanci would be told that the right education would be the key to a secure feature: “to study engineering or medicine at a prestigious university a good job, mak lots of money, and be powerful,” her schoolteacher father reminded her at regular intervals. Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey Paperback 17 November 2015. And then, finally, “When I started primary school everybody was relieved.” So enticing was Pelin’s world of learning, Samanci would throw “little monster”-like tantrums on the floor, forget to complete her errands, and even sneak into her sister’s classroom on her own. At age 6, Özge Samanci was desperate to be “on the other side of the binoculars” – that is, to be at school, being watched by her mother from across the street, just as she and her mother occasionally spotted and waved at her older sister Pelin, age 8, during recess.

Dare to disappoint growing up in turkey