I do not go to school in Turkey, I home school. Except Wednesday we actually visited a Turkish school. It was pretty impressive. When we first got in it looked like a normal school. It had a blacktop and small playground. Then I looked closely, I saw that there where cakes, cookies, and puddings lined up on a table and staircases leading to different building up on a hill. The recess bell rang and a swarm of screaming kids emptied on to the blacktop. Some of them ran towards the tables with treats on them.
In an American school we would never get cakes, cookies, and puddings as a snack. Even though it was only every Wednesday, I was still impressed. One the PTA moms even gave a spider shaped cookie to us. We started heading up the steps and around the different class rooms. The cafeteria had murals on the walls, which was kind of normal for a cafeteria.
We also saw that they had an extra extra big chess board where the pieces were big that we had to carry them around. That was really cool, of coarse we didn't have time to play because we were on a tour of the school. We kept moving and found an olive tree my mom tasted one of the olives and said it tasted bitter. The way to make them taste like the normal salty olives that you find on a cheese plate at a party is complicated. You have to pick them at a certain time, then keep them in a container of water, lemon, and salt for fifteen days. Anyway, as we kept walking along we found a playground where Ruby and Brewer could run around while me and Seamus climbed on the equipment.
After that's we checked out the arts area. They had science, music, art, and chess. They were all pretty much the same at NCC. That brought us to the end of tour. Now we were going to have lunch. The lunch was strictly vegetarian so I didn't eat much, I had a soup, some watermelon, and some bread.
It was getting crowded so me Seamus and I had to escape. We went outside and waited till our parents, Ruby, Brewer, and their parents were done. Then the adults had tea and we left.
I think it was a very interesting school and a place we might want to come back to.
Booker, I read this a while ago, but didn't have time to comment, so I am coming back to do so. First of all, your blog has definitely improved in every direction: descriptive detail, writing style, along with quality and quantity of photos. I was impressed in the beginning, but it is amazing to see the improvement in such a short time! This was one of my favorite posts, as I am very interested to see how the Turkish culture lives their everyday, normal lives. When I travel, I enjoy the 'famous tourist sights" but observing another culture's way of life, food, traditions and architecture is my main interest. Your blog's angle of describing the daily foods you try is very interesting; along with your perspective and descriptions of the Turkish culture. By the end of the trip, your blog is going to be over the moon! I hope you will keep it up when you return, as you have a real talent for this.Since keeping my own blog up for four years, I know it is hard…and having fallen off the blogging bandwagon, am inspired by you to get back in the game! Hope you are having fun with Grams, and taking notes for another good post! Love you lots and miss you! Stay safe!!!
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