Fun with Students

You could say that living in Turkey isn't all that different from Australia. Well, no, that's not really true.

We are still teaching - we were teaching in Australia. No, that's different too.



One of the really nice things about this job is the students that we teach.



That's Gözde and Merve, a couple of the girls in my morning weekday class. As you can see, they are very studious - I never have to say, "Sit down! Be quiet! Gözde don't steal Merve's book!" and things like that.

Most of our lessons are four hours long. The best bit is the ten minute breaks every hour. Then the students head downstairs to the courtyard for a smoke and a cup of çay (Turkish tea). We are free to have a coffee in our staff room, or join them.




This is Cenk and Yiğit, a couple of lively young chaps from my morning class enjoying their break time.

Now that the weather is getting hotter - and very humid - and very few of the classrooms are air-conditioned, we often take our classes outside under a tree or in the "Wendy House" in the courtyard.

My Sunday afternoon class were discussing a documentary Cengiz had seen about English people dunking their biscuits into their tea. He was curious to know if it tasted good.



So we sent to the school canteen for some tea and biscuits, and we had a little lesson in English Culture.




Now there's a class you don't get to teach in Australian primary school.