Pictures! :-)

Here are the promised pictures of my first few days (although I just realized that I don't have any pictures of the school itself...I'll work on that):

Welcome to my massive room...

Including a walk-in closet.....aka, the back of my door.

Our beautiful living room, where I lesson plan and do homework while listening to one of the 6 Turkish soccer TV channels playing in the background. ;-)

Ours is the far pink one. Yes, the giant pink one.

Part of the view from our balcony...a poorer part of the city. You can't tell very well, but those "houses" are nothing more than shacks. Lots of them are patched up with tin siding, and hardly any of them have a full roof without huge holes in it.

This is looking to the left out of our living room window. Part of downtown Ankara is in the distance.

And this is looking to the right out of our living room window. The dirt area in the middle of the picture is part of a park. The green on top of that hill is actually a fenced in public turf soccer field. I could live here. :-)

Since it took me the better part of 2 hours to post these pictures since our wireless is going slow for some reason, I'll be back later with an update. Although it's not spelled this way, in Turkish the way to say "See you later" is Gurooshoorooz! ;-)