Leigh in Azerbaijan

I revisited two of my favourite places today. Tanya and I both decided that we could retire to Sirince. It’s a small Greek town that was emptied in the population exchange of 1922 but not filled with Albanian moslems until some time later. It’s a pretty, small village [...]

[Read more]

Today I went to The Agora in Izmir. It may not be as large as Ephesus but there’s quite a lot to be seen and there’s several archeologists still working there. Did I see around 6 to 8? There were maybe hundreds of metres of broken columns lying in the middle. [...]

[Read more]

Azeri web crawler finds my blog. 
The above link is now part of something that appears to gather news on Azerbaijan.
Yesterday chaperones here had the option of touring some of the city.  I had a tour of the Aegean (Tax) Free (industrial) Zone here in Izmir, where the Space Camp is situated.  It’s a gated suburb. [...]

[Read more]

It’s 9pm.  At 3am tomorrow morning, I’m getting up to be at school by 4am to fly to Turkey for Space Camp with my Grade 5 students.  It’s a highly interactive environment where kids learn about space and being an astronaut.  My Koc School kids last year went to Space Camp and enjoyed it very [...]

[Read more]

It looks like taking salsa dancing lessons won’t happen.  Two extra-curricular activities have come up.

ESL in the mainstream is being offered and paid for by the school.  The course could count towards a masters degree that I’m still planning.  I hear it’s ten weeks of around 2 hours each week with extra study required as [...]

[Read more]

The weeks fly here. Life is getting easier.  I now have broadband, I can email from my email program rather than needing to rely on  the website or the school email address, however I still can’t Skype from my laptop.  Not sure how to fix that one as it’s a strange problem.
The lastest in the [...]

[Read more]

Well, I’m on the internet, four weeks after arriving, but it’s still a trial.  Email still won’t send, Skype still won’t transmit the microphone, 1Gb of traffic costs 41manat which is around A$60.  (as compared with around A$25 in South Australia.  You can rest assured that wealthy families here are growing wealthier still.
Some quick reflections [...]

[Read more]