Life from the 6th floor in city center (is it Paris or is it Eskisehir?)

Bridge 12 looking  from our balcony

water taxi

 

More river views

 

As you can see from the pictures we still have a long way to go with our decorating but we get a few more things each time we’re out.  I think I mentioned earlier that we needed to buy something to hang clothes in.  With our limited wardrobes it works fine (see picture 4 below). Our kitchen is functional if you don’t want to cook and those that know me (Carol writing but Jerry feels the same way) know I don’t do much cooking and will probably do even less in Eskisehir. There are so many good restaurants that by the time we bought cooking utensils, pots and pans etc we probably would spend less going out.  Jerry took the bedroom picture before the bed was made but we decided to leave it in.  We bought single beds because I don’t think they have king and we’re definitely not use to doubles!!  It’s still warm enough at night that all we need is a sheet but we did buy our blankets yesterday to be prepared for a change in the weather.  The woman sitting with me on our balcony is the only other American that we’ve met in Eskisehir.  She’s the one (Diane) who has been so helpful with getting set up.

 

 

We’re off work now until Monday.  It’s the Bayram holiday, end of Ramazon (I thought it was Ramadon but they use Ramazon here).  Yesterday the streets were packed and everything was open.  Today is quiet and only some of the stores are open.  People spend time with their families and give out candy.  Not sure what to expect for the rest of the weekend.  On the last day of school (Tuesday) before the holiday there is an very nice tradition where all the teachers gather and the owner of the school gives his best wishes for the holiday.  Then everyone goes around the circle wishing everyone a good holiday with lots of double cheek air or double cheek kisses. It actually went on for a long time with circle moving almost like a virtual motion machine.  Then we got on our bus for the ride home.

We had thought about going somewhere with the time off but we enjoy hanging out here enough that we will probably just “hang out”.  Can you believe I said that!  There’s another 5 day holiday in November so we’ll probably plan on something then.

Life is very good and we are starting to think about what I’m going to do in our classes.  We have a curriculum but I want to keep learning as much fun as possible.