Phillip and Rebecca Mefford

Our latest thing is to go out for kahvaltı , Turkish breakfast, on Saturday mornings... ...and sometimes treat ourselves to ice-cream for dessert. With the rest of the world we have weathered the flus and ear infections of winter and are looking forward to the blossoming flowers of Spring and emerging warmth of summer. Phillip : continues to teach English at the local university here. we are pretty sure he is the cool teacher. Rebecca : has started her English teaching career by volunteering at the boys schools once a week, respectively. she is thankful that the expectations for how much the children will learn is low, because my are they wiggly. the main goal: have fun and start the children off with a love of the language. Lincoln : is in his second semester of first grade. it has been much more academically challenging than we ever expected, but with the tutoring help of a close friend he has been able to finish his homework every day and i

By Dmitry A. Mottl - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4045572 In Turkey, the prevailing theory is that the Turkic peoples originated in the Mongolian plateau (a region shared by today’s Mongolia, China, and the Siberian region of Russia). From this epicenter the Turkic clans, tribes, and dynasties spread out, some going East, many going West. Thus, Turkish people feel an ethnic and linguistic affinity to some of the most surprising people: Japanese, Korean, Finnish, Hungarian, and even Native Americans. Some claim DNA evidence, for example, between Turks and Native Americans, who were thought to have migrated East from the Mongolian Plateau across the Bering Strait to the America’s. Cultural similarities have been noted: the Japanese value of respecting elders, Native American carpet designs, but mostly, linguistic commonalities. Grammatical similarities like putting the verb at the end of the sentence, a high dependence on suffixes, and co