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    • The Tea Seller

    • The Tea Seller

    • Traditional dress; Food and meals; children

    • 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...
    • Students with Projects

    • Students with Projects

    • Teachers and students; Schools; Education

    • 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...
    • Market Day

    • Market Day

    • Markets

    • 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...

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