A New Adventure is About To Begin

Not sure where to start about the new adventure because we aren’t sure what it will be; however,  Jerry and I have made some major changes in our lives once again.   Those who read the blog know that we have been challenged by our school children and the idea of classroom management.  The kids are wonderful but can’t seem to stop talking.  We tried all the tricks we could think of and then made some changes in January by having the Turkish English teachers come to some of our classes with us.  That was a big help.  The kids didn’t talk nearly as much.  I even had the headmaster sit in on some of my 6th grade classes.  So looking into the next semester, we had hoped that the school would hire another Turkish/English teacher with money we agreed to give up so that the regular teachers wouldn’t have all the extra work.  Anyway, after much discussion and many meetings  we couldn’t come to an acceptable compromise.  The teachers were a little sad and we did not inform the kids before they went on their semester break.  We formed some bonds with many of the students.  We will miss them and they will miss us. So here we are jobless but much less stressed than we have been lately.  So what are our options??   Well, the first thing we are going to do is visit the US for a few weeks after our Spain trip.  We still have our apartment in Eskisehir so we are planning on coming back after our trip. We fly into Tucson from Istanbul the weekend of Feb 12th.  More on our trip later.

Right now we are sitting in a Marriott Hotel by the Istanbul airport for the night before flying to Seville Spain tomorrow.  We left this morning about 7:30 in the midst of the first major snowstorm in Eskisehir this year.  We thought it looked like an inch on the ground from our apartment window but when we got outdoors with our suitcases to walk to the train station (about 1/2 mile) we discovered it was about 3-4 inches.  As we were trying to pull our suitcases through the snow two very nice policemen stopped and gave us a ride.  There is no traffic on the street in front of our apartment because it’s a walking area but police do come down the road, thank goodness.  The snow was beautiful when you are watching it through the train window, not so much when you are trying to pull suitcases.