Senior ELF in Western Anatolia

Friday, January 21, 2011

Erzincan conference

High school students and their teacher drop in to interview me for a social studies assignment.

Erzinca U's rektor with Director of the program, guests

FLTA!!! Yes! She is soon on her way!

Michael and Mustafa giving out certificates

Mustafa herding cats for ski trip tomorrow....

The Eastern Anatolian EFL Conference - Champion Teachers, Champion Learners at Erzincan University. This conference was sponsored by the U.S. Embassy and the School of Civil Aeronautics at Erzincan and ran from January 19 - 22. It was organized by Sr ELF Michael. EFLs Susan and Carol presented as did formateurs and others. My topic was Games for Champions. Aside from the conference. this has been a wonderful time for me because it is my first time in the eastern part of Turkey, and I have wanted to come this way for a long time. I have no words to describe the feeling I get when I see the mountains, which surround the city. Right now they are snow-covered. It should be snowing here now, but they say the past three years have had less snow.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

New year in Nisantasi

Time for a break

So much travel, so much walking...time for a break - lovely gift foot massage!

Holiday gingerbread houses

Nice....I just helped decorate. :)

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Christmas Day in Bodrum (Halicarnasas) - a few days of R&R

Hugo and I are in Bodrum. We went to a crummy pansyon (Mylasa) for one night, didn't like it, and decided to switch today. Much better. Hugo woke up with a doozie of a cold this morning and then he twisted and put his back out. The weather is not so warm, but also not so cold - it is very windy today, though! Still, we decided to go up to see the castle. We really enjoyed it a lot. A very nice day.

The castle is the Castle of St. Peter and a showplace of medieval military architecture. It has five turrets named after the homelands of the knights (England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain). Inside the castle walls there is also a Museum of Underwater Archaeology that displays items found in shipwrecks in the area.

The wind was blowing hard through the masts of the yachts and making a very weird sound - maybe that's why there are so many ghost stories about haunted boats.