“This dude is ready for Thanksgiving Peace Corps style! Didn’t even have to chase him, he climbed up the outside ladder to my room window” - Peace Corps Kyrgyzstan Volunteer @_arielnaya http://bit.ly/1LBrmk4
“This photo was taken after Armenia’s first snowfall of the season. The mountain in the background is Mt. Ararat, the traditional resting place of Noah’s Ark. Although located in eastern Turkey near the Armenian border, a lot of Armenians treasure this beautiful scenery.”
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 where hearing and speaking another language was as foreign to them as seeing a television (which was not even available in Turkey in 1965).
- Peace Corps Education Volunteer Margaret Miyake