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3/302013 Doing and AMA on Reddit, talking about teaching English and living in the Middle East

Turkish is what they call a gleutonus language.  What that means is that there are all sorts of attachments to words in order to make a sen...

  Last week, the week before a week long vacation was crazy. I think that is how it always is for everybody. The week before vacation alm...

So, every night during the month of Ramazan there is a carnevale that goes on here. For those people reading this from Pagosa, it is just...

Ramadan is is full swing here in Turkey. First thing I notice is how different it is here compared to Jordan. In Jordan, every restauran...

So as we are here in Turkey, a few cultural observations I have made. 1. Turks have a much higher tolerance for heat than I do. 2. They love...