Better teaching day...

Yesterday was my second day teaching, and it was completely different than the time before. It was super exhausting because I didn't get a lot of sleep the night before worrying about it, but it truth it went pretty well. The students were much nicer and I think this is more the sort of classes that we will be getting. Of course, the day was miserable before both classes because i was sick with nervousness, but that will happen. I had four hours in the morning and 3 hours in the evening (which Leyla has today), and it makes for a LONG day. By the end of my second class I was so parched and my throat was so scratchy from talking for such a long time.

Today, I got up (later than I wanted to) and headed out first to try to get some dollars changed. Unfortunately, the change office here was closed. Luckily I had enough change to get to Taksim by dolmuş for church, so I was seriously hoping for either a change office to be open on İstiklal Caddesi or one of the two friends we met last time at church (Charlotte and Mark) to be there so I could bum some change of them to go home. Luckily, both of those wishes came true, and a change office was open (although I only changed 20bucks because the dollar was down to 1.28 exchange rate or something close to that..ugh) and Charlotte was there and so I got to see her. Her friend Murat was meeting her, so I tagged along with them for lunch and then headed home. Leyla is not here :( so I can't find out how her teaching went... I'm sure she did very well.

The other day when we went to Kadiköy to hang out with Charlotte we went to a Çay Bahçesi to have tea and have her teach us how to play Backgammon.

I was trying to take a picture of one of the bridges that are lit up at night when we were on the ferry from Kadiköy to Karaköy (duh, the boat was moving and it was dark, obviously it wouldn't turn out... but for some reason I really like it.)