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Next Stage of Life in Turkey

Returning from the summer in Dalyan, I moved into my next stage of life in Turkey–moving out of the “lojman”–a worker’s residence building–and into an apartment off-site from the school. I guess you could say I “graduated” as my seniority of employment put me towards the top of the list when an off-site apartment was vacated by another foreign employee. Before moving to Dalyan for the summer I had boxed and packed up all of…

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Snapshot of Retirement

My second summer in Dalyan was a dream come true. As my sister Fawn put it, I had a sort of “mini-retirement.” With hindsight I can say it did have that feel to it. After surviving two plus years of COVID impacts, this summer came well overdue for all of us educators. The 2021-22 school year was especially tiring for us, between juggling hybrid classes with students out with COVID, and constant substitute coverage of…

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Neighborhood Life, Part 3

Hello Friends, and welcome back for the continued tour around my Göztepe neighborhood. I’ll dig right in to talk about animals–both our pets and the street animals for which Turkey is well known. I remember while I was going through contract negotiations with ACI that I had to verify I could bring Ziggy with me when I moved. The Head of School at the time said of course I could, but also that there were…

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