Turkish Classes

Hardly anyone speaks English here in Ankara so communicating can be a real headache. So decided to enroll in a language school here for Turkish Language classes Beginner Level 1 - TOMER run by the Ankara University:

 So every morning I catch the bus at 7:30 to Kizilay. Yup! I'm in the bus with the rest of the Turkish people rushing to work. Lucky for me Oran is an early stop so when I board the bus there's still plenty of seats

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It's a 45  minute ride from Oran to downtown Kizilay , and then a 10 minute brisk walk to TOMER. It's the waiting for the bus in the cold that really gets you....it's fall going into winter and it can get pretty chilly

So anyway, my class is really international -  there are two young Palestinians guys,

and then, seven Polish (five of the seven in this pic),

and two Koreans girls - and they are all like 18-20 years old....Aaaaarrrggghhh!!! I feel positively ANCIENT!

I like the Korean girls - very friendly, helpful, smart as a whip - I usually check my homework with theirs - cos they always get it right!

Classes are from 9:00 -1:00 but I like to be there early (abt an hour early) & do a little review & check thru  my homework! The first week was fun and eazy-peazy, lemon squeezy. Then came week two when the teacher introduces the grammar....the STRESS!!!!!

There's also LOTS of homework every single day -  takes about 2-3 hours to complete. So I'm kept pretty much busy everyday... With the cleaning and the laundry and the cooking - by the time I settle down to do my homework its already quite late. One time I slept at 2:30 am - NO KIDDING!

At this point I think it's easy to get de-motivated by the amount of work you need to put in. In fact think Turkish iis more difficult than French or Farsi. I don't know maybe it's still early days yet..

So now I''m done with Beginning 1-  and I've just started my Begining Turkish Level 2 ... WISH ME LUCK!