Post Christmas visit in CO

I have a student in class who always answers yes/no questions with "Sometimes yes, but sometimes no." Today they are taking a final exam. All the questions are yes/no. He's having a hard time.

Last night at about 12:30 I decided that I needed to start knitting a starfish. Lucky for me I had a pattern of a starfish on hand. At 2:00 I decided that I had to stop knitting the star fish for what seems like obvious reasons.

Sometimes I worry about my impulses.

The other day I decided I must have scrambled eggs. The problem is that I make terrible scrambled eggs. They are always too dry or too wet or too crumbly or over spiced, not fluffy enough- in the past I would concede to my terrible scrambled egg making skills and just go to Denny's. That day, however, I decided I could not let scrambled eggs bring me down. So I did some research (online of course) and found my new friend, Mr. Breakfast. He told me how to make perfect scrambled eggs.
I tried it- it worked. Now, if only I can remember that simple bit of wisdom the next time I decide I must have scrambled eggs.

perfect scrambled eggs

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In the life of this blog there have been 925 postings. Maybe I should work on hitting 1000 before 2010.

Eeh.

So- I lost my job yeah? Really bad timing in that most schools don't hire until fall. That leaves many moons of nobody hiring. Well, at least nobody in the USA.

I got a call at 6 this morning. (My time, surely some more godly hour at the point of origination, which was Gaziantep, Turkey.)

I'd never heard of Gaziantep before last week when I got an email saying they were looking for a Business English teacher. Seems I'm all out of the world city scene as several other people I mentioned it to said, "oh uh-huh" when I said it. They were probably faking it.

I don't know why exactly, but I have become an 'Business English' teacher. As if I knew anything about business- but it is a niche and here am I to fill it.

I talked to the Dean of the Business school and the Director of the English Language program of Zirve University.

They asked me what questions I had for them- Uh- 6:00 AM- I'm not sure I'd have questions for God at 6:00 AM, but I was trying really hard to think of something and to sound like I had been dead asleep a second ago.

While talking to one co-worker she asked if I asked about class size expectations, and if there were western toilets and copy machines on campus. Well, heck, I knew I should have made a list of things to ask. Although I'm pretty sure the second question would not have appeared on my list . . .


Turkey- Buzz likes the sound of that. I'm not sure yet.

click to see larger map.
Gaziantep is south, not far from the Syrian boarder.

Now if this university were in Batman, Turkey this would not even be an issue. I would already have my ticket in hand.