Leigh in Azerbaijan

Today was the big day of fronting up to get my Residence Visa at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which also covers refugees, illegal immigrants and those being expelled.
Canan and I were driven by an ‘office boy’ (a grown man) into the city, who then waited the hours some blocks away until we were finished. [...]

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By approaching the families of women in danger, an NGO saves 13 women from almost certain death
DİYARBAKIR – Anatolia News Agency
Thirteen women whose families had decided to murder them, in the name of “honor killings” for supposedly tarnishing the families’ name, were saved by a nongovernmental organization that persuaded the families against such an act.
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Today I made another step towards getting a bank account but I haven’t quite achieved it yet.
Tomorrow I have to go the Foreign Ministry in person to prove (presumably) that I am who I say I am.  I go with Canan (Ja-narn) who is one of the various people responsible for foreign teachers.
Canan informed that [...]

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As this is a blog and not a diary, I would love to hear your comments. You can of course email privately.  Don’t forget that if you get Skype (download it free), you can talk to me via your PC.

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It’s a scary thing to spend the day in a city where you can’t communicate and have to find a ferry to rendezvous with others at 7pm. As I know yiros in Turkish, I had a dürüm (do-room) for lunch and dinner and visited the Blue Mosque, Aya Sofya, The Basilica Cistern and the [...]

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This shows around 1/3 of the school buses that ferry staff and students to school each day. It might be only a 1/4. There are enormous resources tied up in support structures for the school. Most of these buses just sit in the carpark during the day.
These small buses are one [...]

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Forget my blog. You have to view this wonderful link to a classroom.  Many will know that I’ m keen on the use of ICT in the classroom. This short video shows how a girl with leukemia was included in a classroom through Skype (free web-cam internet communication).
My hunch is that this video [...]

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http://www.allaboutturkey.com/conquest.htm
This link says that some people say that the fall of Constantinople to Sultan Mehmed marked the end of the Middle Ages. It gives a day by day account of the fall of the city. An amazing story!

Isn’t it amazing how some traditions work. This is talking about the gradual [...]

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After school on Tuesday I’m obliged to help with an activity. There are many happening in the elementary school. Last week it was computing, but from now it’s Scouts. It seems that a large core of scouts is a project on the scarcity of water. Not something we would have done in [...]

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Uploaded some images of the elementary and highschool today. Flickr tells me I’ve reached my limit of folders on their site. Guess they want me to pay them some money.
My 5F kids would be very happy to see their pictures on the net. They are great kids, just a little slow to quieten when [...]

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