Week one is a success!

It's so beautiful here right now! Bright, bright, warm, breezy days. We hear it might be the last hurrah of summer (the temperature is supposed to drop quite a bit next week), so we are trying to enjoy it while we can. A couple days ago, Mike and I went for a walk along the Bosphorous near the Kabataş ferry docks and milled around with the commuters and pleasure seekers there. If it's nice tomorrow, we're thinking we'll go back and hop on one of the ferries out to "the islands", where there are no cars and possibly even a little scrap of nature.

I'm feeling good this weekend, having survived my first week of CELTA. Yesterday, each of us taught a twenty minute lesson to real English learners. For mine, I worked on asking for phone numbers with a group of beginner students. There are a lot of things that I want to do differently next time, but it feels good just to have a little teaching under my belt.

I feel a lot of support and encouragement from our teachers and fellow students. And the view can't get much better from our school. Here's what I see when I lean out the window:

Not bad, right?
Love,
Eleanor