Leigh in Azerbaijan

I can’t work out how to place this in a sidebar. In the mean time I’ll place it here.
Mmm. It’s now June 4th and nothing is registering – it’s broken.
Oh! It’s now June 10th and it’s working.  I can recognise some of the dots.

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I’ve had an interview by phone with an international school in Azerbaijan but won’t hear for another week or so if I get the job. I’ve also recently applied to Cambodia, Shanghai and Hong Kong.  Every now and again schools will actually acknowledge your application, which is always a pleasant surprise. I did hear that [...]

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I’ve just discovered The Turkish Economy Blog, which has a side-bar of bloggers including me telling their Turkish story. My short foray into it gives some good insights into a foreigner’s life in Turkey.

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This is something every teacher could make a poster of for their classroom.
Daniel Pennac’s The Reader’s Bill of Rights
I.    The right to not read
II.   The right to skip pages
III. The right to not finish
IV.  The right to reread
V.    The right to read anything
VI.   The right to escapism
VII.  The right to read anywhere
VIII. The right to browse
IX.    [...]

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Late this afteroon foreign teachers living on campus were told to leave at 3pm to go home and wait for census data collectors who would be knocking on our door.  We were informed of fines for not having your data collected and there were heavier fines for giving false information.   This was a strange [...]

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