Tuesday

This morning we started in the usual way.  Olives, cheese, bread, cheese, olives…etc.    Not sure if I’ll be able to last much longer on this kind of diet.  Might have to run and grab some fruit, milk and cereal to clean myself out.  Oh and it snowed.  They expected a snowstorm overnight but it came a little late and I was surprised when a couple of the Kiwi kids said they had never seen snow before.  We had a tour of the school, took an English class taught by a German, and then a chemistry class taught by another German but this time in German.  Guess what, Chemistry is just as boring in German as it is in English.  After some wandering around at the school, we changed into some other clothes and got ready to board the bus for Miniaturk, a miniature representation of all of Turkey’s built wonders.  It was a very, very, very cold experience.  I am sure the wind chill factor was off the scale.  Back on the bus, thawing out, we headed back to the school via a different route.  We saw another side of Istanbul and although I’ve seen a bit of the city now I still find it all overwhelming at the massive scale of this place.  Despite the amount of traffic it all seems to flow very well and although you hear lots of car horns it is never angry fist waving stuff, more just letting someone know you are there.

This is the principal.  Don't you think he looks
like the guy who played the mayor in The Dish?

These Turkish kids are really nice kids.  They have a very relaxed way about them and you never see them angry.

The Kiwi kids and the Aussie kids are starting to warm to each other now.  I’m sure by the end of the tour they will be best friends.  I found out that one of the kiwi students is LDS.  Her dad is a bishop in Auckland.  A small world indeed.