I'm a Turkish student in an American family's house in Huntington Bay. I enjoy a lot being here, especially when I bike around to see garage and tag sales [''A Tag-Sale Show-and-Tell,'' June 28].
The Marshall family, very experienced American Field Service members, gave me a bicycle here. I wait Fridays and weekends to use it around, when there are many garage and tag sales. I make a plan before I leave the house and I follow a map to find all the addresses. My tour becomes 30 miles totally, from one garage sale to another, takes five to six hours to finish. Finally I get really tired and the bag behind me becomes full with the stuff I buy. I enjoy it a lot. I learn about the people of Long Island when I visit their sales. It's much more interesting than shopping in Grand Bazaar of Istanbul for me.