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JRCash
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| What is Turkey like for a newbie? |
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yaramaz
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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| It can be stringy and tough if overcooked; good with gravy and cranberry sauce; look out for the tryptophan- it'll knock ya right out. |
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FGT
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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| It can be great or it can be dreadful. It depends. |
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Baba Alex
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 7:19 am Post subject: |
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The Newer you are the easier it is. When I first came, I had a great time, loved it. Within half an hour, I was giving hand-jobs to pay for my crack habit.
Love the av. BTW |
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dmb
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:53 am Post subject: |
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| It depends on you. There are loads of people like me who stay for years. on the other hand I've employed people who hated it so much(Istanbul) have left within a few days. |
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Golightly
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:10 am Post subject: |
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depends on the mindset you bring with you. If you think it's going to be like home - you know, stuff like an electric supply that doesn't keep getting cut off, ditto water, stuff like that - then you'll be disappointed: keep an open mind, hope for the best but be prepared for the worst, and you should have fun. As I said when I was quoted in Teach English Abroad (4th Edition): It is difficult to think of a more ideal place for a new teacher to start than Turkey.
I said something like that, anyway. been years since I read the thing.
Baba Alex may have been on telly and in the papers and everything, but I'm in a book. A real book. |
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dmb
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:23 am Post subject: |
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| The Griffith book? I've just had a look at the 2nd edition from 1994 and I can't see anything. However the first page in the Turkey section is missing. |
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dmb
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:24 am Post subject: |
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oh silly me I just saw you mentioned the 4rth edition  |
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Golightly
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:24 am Post subject: |
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| 4th edition, 98/99. |
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Golightly
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:25 am Post subject: |
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| blimey, there's a flurry of posting today. I keep trying to get down to the Nilay dorsa Thread, and another new posting appears somewhere else. |
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Baba Alex
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:33 am Post subject: |
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depends on the mindset you bring with you. If you think it's going to be like home - you know, stuff like an electric supply that doesn't keep getting cut off, ditto water, stuff like that - then you'll be disappointed: keep an open mind, hope for the best but be prepared for the worst, and you should have fun. As I said when I was quoted in Teach English Abroad (4th Edition): It is difficult to think of a more ideal place for a new teacher to start than Turkey.
I said something like that, anyway. been years since I read the thing.
Baba Alex may have been on telly and in the papers and everything, but I'm in a book. A real book. |
I'll raise you one and say I've co-written a number of books.
(Not real ones, English teaching ones.) |
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Golightly
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:53 am Post subject: |
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| Baba Alex wrote: |
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depends on the mindset you bring with you. If you think it's going to be like home - you know, stuff like an electric supply that doesn't keep getting cut off, ditto water, stuff like that - then you'll be disappointed: keep an open mind, hope for the best but be prepared for the worst, and you should have fun. As I said when I was quoted in Teach English Abroad (4th Edition): It is difficult to think of a more ideal place for a new teacher to start than Turkey.
I said something like that, anyway. been years since I read the thing.
Baba Alex may have been on telly and in the papers and everything, but I'm in a book. A real book. |
I'll raise you one and say I've co-written a number of books.
(Not real ones, English teaching ones.) |
They only count if you smuggle in rude names, references to drugs and risque topics. Oh, I see ET has already done that.
OK, raise you further; I have written a novel (unpublished, but bloody good, honestly) AND I was the voice of FONO. I recorded the scripts about 10years ago, saying stuff like 'Is it a spoon or a fish? it IS a FISH'. |
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dmb
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| AND I was the voice of FONO. |
only the voice? I made fono videos..... so did all the staff at the Fast in Pendik. I sometimes have nightmares about them appearing on youtube |
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Baba Alex
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Golightly wrote: |
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depends on the mindset you bring with you. If you think it's going to be like home - you know, stuff like an electric supply that doesn't keep getting cut off, ditto water, stuff like that - then you'll be disappointed: keep an open mind, hope for the best but be prepared for the worst, and you should have fun. As I said when I was quoted in Teach English Abroad (4th Edition): It is difficult to think of a more ideal place for a new teacher to start than Turkey.
I said something like that, anyway. been years since I read the thing.
Baba Alex may have been on telly and in the papers and everything, but I'm in a book. A real book. |
I'll raise you one and say I've co-written a number of books.
(Not real ones, English teaching ones.) |
They only count if you smuggle in rude names, references to drugs and risque topics. Oh, I see ET has already done that.
OK, raise you further; I have written a novel (unpublished, but bloody good, honestly) AND I was the voice of FONO. I recorded the scripts about 10years ago, saying stuff like 'Is it a spoon or a fish? it IS a FISH'. |
I write for the popular culture magazine BANT and have written a radio program about early synthesisers which may or may not be broadcast on a radio station at some point in the past.
I also have some stuff here in Turkish, if anyone wants some Turkish reading practice.
http://www.santralmuzik.com/001.htm# |
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tararu
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| Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 11:32 am Post subject: |
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| I can beat the bloody lot of you. I've co-written a published book, been in a Turkish film that won awards in Turkey and across Europe, done voice overs for TV commercials, been on the evening news and most important of all was in Mr. D.ckenson's play about Jesus. All of that and l am a rockstar in my own mind. |
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