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Yesemek’e

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Tired, as I wound up in Yesemek (a village with a Hittite sculpture quarry, nearish to here) today, with a bunch of silly travel frustrations I don’t feel like recounting. Instead, you get two and a half vignettes of good things.
• (1) On the minibus ride from Antep to İslahiye (the nearest town), we [...]

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What have I been up to?

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Teaching, mostly. People aren’t kidding around when they say that first-year teaching is tough. I’m learning how to plan a lesson properly, how to work with students who don’t yet know enough English to understand my classroom directions, and how to manage big classes of mostly-sweet but generally-distracted students not much younger than [...]

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The last five days

Sunday, October 4, 2009

For the last five days (Tuesday-Saturday), I’ve been in Ankara for Fulbright orientation, an intense and extremely helpful experience. I haven’t been posting because the orientation was so exhausting; I’m full of ideas for outreach projects, research plans, and English teaching techniques. Unfortunately, I didn’t get much time to see Ankara’s sites (primarily [...]

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And a little closer to the present

Sunday, September 27, 2009

One more quick status update before I go:
1) Yesterday Narin took me into the city proper for the first time, which was excellent. (She was joking about having no practice being a tour guide in Antep, but she was really helpful.) I now have the beginnings of an understanding of how the bus system works [...]

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Fortunes

Sunday, September 27, 2009

I am finally sitting outside the Gaziantep airport, after a rather chaotic trip over here. The last few days before leaving were a whirlwind– even more so than usual, I think, because I wound up needing to take the GRE the morning before I left. (I did fine, though not as well as [...]

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V, w, and f

Sunday, May 24, 2009

I’ve been spending part of the day (post-dishes and inside chores) catching up on unread blog posts in Google Reader, as I’ve been ignoring that segment of the internet for a few weeks now. Sifting through back posts in Language Log is usually entertaining, although I tend to save long and complex work to [...]

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