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[bigbadsuzie]

Oh yes its back to basics time ,I feel a rant coming on .Why is it that our employers are so taken in with some no mark (opps sorry) who can utter a few well chosen turkish phrases that despite the fact he /she has no quals etc but that doesn't seem to matter . It seems at the moment that places are short of staff and they will consider almost anyone ,ı mean anyone !
Another thing why is it as soon as we get a bit of rain in Izmir the whole place desends into chaos ,happens every year and they are totally unprepared for the wet stuff unclog the drains for chrisssakes give all that water a chance to get away then I WONT GET FLOODED OUT . bAS*A*DS .

[billybuzz]

Oh god I read this for the first time so funny ,so many different stuff that tees you off mine has to be all this jargon thats starting to creep into daily speech celta,delta,ielts,etc etc and of course all the B.C and E.F club members are running the roost here either as teacher trrainers or testers or both even co-ordinators or is that disco-ordinators what with all the hoops we have to jump through .
Holidays comimg soon perhaps we might get more than a few days break this time round .

[Golightly]

[dagi]

This is so funny to read! Go on you guys, vent and entertain me.
Although I fear that I won't send off those applications I was going to write this week.

[phoebe caulfield]

Standing at a crowded bus stop after almost 10 hours of class, minding my own business, and I notice a par of eyes staring at me from 5 cm away. I am stubborn, so I do that eyebrows-raised thing that says "Do you have a problem?"
He says, in Turkish, "You are a teacher, I know. I want to learn English - will you be my teacher too?"
I think, "Yeah jacka@@! I spend all day teaching and now all I want to do it teach you too, all in exchange for your delicious company."
What I actually say is, "Evliyim."

Also, when Turks assume that I don't speak Turkish and talk freely about me in class. For instance:
Male student: Vay, bu fistik nereden geldi beee... Ben ona ogreterim bir iki seyler.
Female students: Aman, cok sisman, neresini begendin ki? Pis cocuk.

I let my students believe that I didn't understand them for 4 months, until one of them saw me in a cafe one day conversing with my cousins.

[mongrelcat]

All 7 pages of this nearly had me in tears....funny tears...but the following ones kill me every time...


"I've tried explaining to them that shutting in all the air and turning up the heat in fact creates a more prolific environment for harmful viruses, but they just look at me with pity, tuck in their vests and pull on another sweater."

"Everyone is apparently warm 'n dry 'n clean as a whistle.... except my grade 9 boys who have apparently never ever heard of deodorant or bathing or of flushing the squat loos after usage (waaa! horrific stench)"
Not only the boys mind you...

"The whole mentality about women really gets to me. Any Turkish man who can get a foreign girl is some sort of stud while any Turkish woman who is with a foreign guy must be a *beep* or ugly or have something wrong with her and that's why she can't get a Turkish man."
when i was in Ankara, just walking down the street in Kizilay was a minefield! The men in the dirty little shops on the pedestrian overpasses would literally reach out and grab me, drag me into their shops and force me to drink tea with them, followed by proposals of marriage. When i said no, they then would start telling me about their cousin back in the village..."very smart, very nice man, you like him!"

"One of my biggest bugbears is people standing or stopping in doorways, or stopping suddenly on the pavement/sidewalk (see above) so that other people nearly bump into them."
and another good time is when you are actually physically in the doorway, walking through it, and because you are yabanci, the turks dont see you (because its your turn to be invisible) and walk through the doorway at the same time. I used to stop and back up to let them go through the door first, hoping that politeness would rub off on them. then i stopped. i just continue on through the door at the same time so that we are both squashed.

"I hate the way people here queue jump. Not so much the actually jumping itself (where doesn't it happen?) but the expression on their faces completely lacking in any shame. The expression reads (like the mobile phone point): "Well, I can see there is a queue but it doesn't really apply to me, my business here if far more important, as I am myself, to be bothered with such a thing as a queue."

"Why when ever you walk past a shop to browse you always get jumped on by the owner or his hired help and they follow you down the street in the firm belief you want to buy a leather coat or another 10 kilos of turkish delight ,Jeesh! Take a hike you muppet ."
I was in Sultanahmet the other day, just outside of one of the pazars, standing and thinking about what i was going to do next. I hear a young man behind me "hey lady, oh lady..." ignored him because i knew what would happen if i turned and made eye contact. finally he comes up to me and tells me how rude i was because i didnt answer him. i let him have it. told him if i answered every man in the pazar who called me to drink tea with them, i'd be there all day and all night. and told him he was rude for calling me rude. then of course he turns on that totally insincere smile and tells me how beautiful i am and the inevitable 'where are you from?'

there are some decent turks too....of course. the youngish twentyish girls who dont dress in that outlandish glittery sparkly sequinned matching shoes/belt/eyeshadow/and Barbie hair accessory are often quite friendly well mannered.

[dmb]

My friend had an interview today for a new job. It's a PA job for an international company. It involves foreign travel with her foreign male boss. She was asked at the interview "How will your husband feel about you travelling abroad with another man?

Her answer "He's not Turkish"

the response
" Oh, of course"

[comrade in arms]

[justme]

[tvik]

what i really love is the catch 22 that people like to put you in, watch you squrim and then magnanimously let you out, at a price....

[billybuzz]

Apart from the smoke in restaurants its the flies ,I mean they are everywhere ,and the staff just stand idly by and watch them crawl over your food and drink without even attempting to shoo them off anybody would think they were a protected species or something ,had to leave the place a lot sooner than I would have liked because of them . Are the Turks just too lazy to care about the health and safety aspect or are they just plain stupid ?

[Baba Alex]

[CECTPA]

The pesticide truck that drives around my way almost every night lately, spewing poison gas into the air, makes me crazy. It's supposed to kill flies and mosquitoes, but what does it do to people? I haven't been bitten much by mosquitoes so on one level it may be working. However, it only seems to turn the surviving flies into giant mutants. I wouldn't hang around a restaurant if I saw those behemoths buzzing around, either.

[Sheikh Inal Ovar]

In an internet cafe ...

The man on his MSN messenger singing attrociously to his (seemingly deaf) friend ... and the stinky bugger sat next to him ...

[FGT]

I loath the carpet deoderant that is liberally sprayed in every place even when you have tea or beer on the table. If you can smell it - and can't you? - it must have droplets in the atmosphere, which can fall in your drink.....It doesn't bear thinking about!