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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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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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Made it. (Barely?)

Friday, September 25, 2009

I am writing from Gaziantep, finally (and am on the laptop of my host, where I cannot find the apostrophe key, so expect some wacky phrasing and orthography). It was not the most pleasant plane trip I have ever taken, unfortunately, although I am dealing with much less jet lag than I anticipated.
There is [...]

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Oh dear.

Friday, July 17, 2009

I haven’t fallen off the face of the planet, but everything I want to write is a little too complex for my work-addled brain. More to come.
But first, bullet points:
• I’m working with struggling rising ninth graders (and current ninth graders) for Americorps; it’s tiring. Not to mention that “struggling rising ninth graders” [...]

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