Today it rained all day long, first time since I’ve been here. I’m not normally a fan of rainy days but it’s just so dry here that I’m welcoming the rain J I’m not really sure what to update with so I need some suggestions of what you would like to hear about.
This week has been a busy week at work, still getting the swing of things and getting used to teaching all day and planning all night, oh the life of a full time teacher. Starting next week I will be helping my department coordinator plan our curriculum. I’m excited for the opportunity and it will be a good add on to what I am doing since I find that I am pretty organized and have some extra time.
Very suddenly we are now experiencing fall weather. I compare a lot of my experience here to my time in China. So I must say heating here is crazy. In China you had to wait till “the day” when the heat got turned on. It was a certain day for the entire city. And it was usually the beginning of November. Now it’s only October, the beginning of October. It got a little chilly on Monday and our heat is ON full blast! CRAZY! Today we all discovered that our new school has floor heating. We were all complaining about how hot it was in the school turning on the air conditioners and leaving the door open, when we sat down on the floor for our morning circle we realized the floor heating is at full blast. Now this is the same as China for me, last year my preschool in HuangDao had floor heating and the floor sure does get REALLY hot. I try not to have the kids sit on it, I’m hoping they will be able to turn it down a bit.
I am finding that my asthma has been acting up especially with the dramatic change between hot and cold between the classroom and the hallway.
This weekend I’m looking forward to hanging out with some of the English staff outside of school. We will be going to a dinner place, I’m not really sure what to expect but I’m sure it will be fun. I will try to remember to take pictures and post them for you.
But for now Gürüşürüz (good bye)
1 comment:
I see you took my suggestion of including English with any Turkish words you use. =) I also love when you compare and contrast China and Turkey; that helps to know more of what Turkey is like. So just go through every aspect of life... grocery shopping, clothes shopping, transportation, food, laundry (do they have dryers?), language, school, weather, holidays, etc, etc. Of course, pictures and stories from the day/week are always good too! =)
I'm glad you are getting settled into everything more and wanting to get more involved with the curriculum.
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