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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A Fulbright Fellow living and working in Gaziantep, Turkey. For more, click around.
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- Sadly, doesn't surprise me. Turkish envrnmnt minister: Ancient city to be destroyed by dam doesn't exist. http://bit.ly/awo3LL via @tronchin -- from 6 days ago
- I have been to Starbucks more times on this trip to Ankara than in the entirety of the rest of my life to date. -- from 6 days ago
- Kurtlar Vadisi: still the creepiest TV show in Turkey. (Trailer shows American, Israeli, & European "plans" for Turkey.) http://is.gd/ePUXo -- from 1 week ago
- Thunderstorm sweeping through Ankara. First time I've seen rain in /weeks/. -- from 1 week ago
- Today is apparently a day where I get to feel like I screw up everything I touch. Sarcastic win! -- from 1 week ago
- (Particularly as the convo was deeply relevant to probs w/current middle-burner projects.) Tomorrow: Fbright planning meetings & #digiclass. -- from 1 week ago
- Why I <3 Twitter & open scholarly convos: seeing @melissaterras, @nowviskie, @kfitz speak on obstacles to OA/online publishing in realtime. -- from 1 week ago
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