Tea is as important a drink in Turkey as is coffee. When visiting with Turkish friends, they always offered tea first. Later coffee, more expensive and more time consuming to make, would be offered. I was always amazed at how this young boy could...
My teaching was a bit more interactive than the traditional Turkish teachers'. I'd ask students to act out what vocabulary they were learning. Here was a day's lesson on prepositions. Most of my orta okul (middle school) students were from villages...
On market day in my town, Kirikhan, in southeastern Turkey, villagers sold produce like dried beans or eggplant, fresh tomatoes, onions, and green beans. I had never seen an open market like this with women wearing colorful shalvars, baggy pants...