Turkish School

Merhaba!

Well, I've started school here, gotten settled in, and made a couple friends. Basic summary of this post for you.

Anyway, my school is huge. 7 floors. Huge, I tell ya. My teachers are nice, and the schedule is confusing. Rather than having the same classes every day, I have a million different classes each day. My one achievment so far has been figuring out to bring 2YTL with me to school, then going up to a little food store in the high school, buying a quarter of a foot long ham sandwich and a water, and the water lasts me the rest of the day, and the food surpasses anything except dessert the cafeteria could provide.

The 8th grade class consistes of 13 people, who manage to take the following subjects, and more, in the course of a week... English, Humanities, Biology, Chemistry, Music, Language, Art, Physics, Drama, Elective, Math, P.E., and some class that I have yet to figure out what it is called "PSHE". It's tiring, because most of my classes are on the 7th floor. Oh, and there are two buildings with 7 floors, one national school and one international. Plus, if I am coming from the gym, which is the the national school, I manage to climb up 4 flights of stairs plus the 7 floors.

It boggles my mind. Our 2nd Exams are on my birthday week (rather than EOGS we take exams for almost every course 6 times a year).

My room is nice, and so is the apartment, my room has a balcony overlooking a street that is underconstruction.

:) Anyway, I must be going.

Gule Gule,

Frances