Barton Barrack

Teaching and Travelling in Turkey 2009 -2010 (eBook, ePUB)

My Personal Observation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is about my time teaching English in Istanbul and travelling around Turkey from January 2009 to May 2010. It includes settling into a Muslim community in a middle class area in Istanbul with all the thrills and spills that you would expect with day to day living. It required making adjustments to my diet, lifestyle and learning to appreciate that the Turkish experience can be very rewarding. I enjoyed the experience immensely and at one stage started to look at apartments to buy with Bosphorus views. I could have very happily lived in Istanbul for longer but family issues at home brought it to an end. The Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey have had a very rich, vibrant and often violent history. My students and their friends allowed me to gain a strong understanding of what this was all about. I developed a strong interest in Turkish politics during my stay and continued to observe issues after I left in 2010. It will be very interesting to see how Turkey deals with enormous problems in the coming years, particularly with terrorism and the tragic position of their neighbours, Syria and Iraq. There is nothing like living in their community and embracing the Turkish innate wish to provide hospitality to foreigners, particularly English teachers. I should also mention that I met some wonderful Kurdish people and enjoyed their company. There is no doubt that many wanted to meet me to practise their English but I lapped it up. I guess I learnt much more about Turkey than they did about Australia. I must give thanks to my fellow teacher, Teresa Hanlon, whos perfect Turkish and generous personality got me out of many sticky situations and also drew me into others. She proved invaluable in dealing with my inevitable scrapes dealing with the bureaucracy and even with my landlord. Without her friendship and help this incredible journey would have been very bumpy. I must also thank David Adams for his extremely professional editing of the text. For somebody who still works full time I was amazed how quickly, diligently and accurately he completed this task.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris AU
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781514444382
• Artikelnr.: 52539959

Autorenporträt

Barton was raised in southern Sydney and went to Sydney Grammar School. He started his career with a Chartered Accountant and then moved on to become an Articled Law Clerk. Later he joined the NSW Public Sector and held out there for 35 years. After obtaining a BA (Syd) and a Cambridge CELTA he ventured to Istanbul in 2009 for 18 months to teach English for the ride of his life. He travelled extensively in Turkey and was fascinated by its rich cultural life and the Turk's renowned reputation for hospitality. He returned to Istanbul for a holiday in 2013 to relive the experience. He has a keen interest in politics and currently teaches English part time at a Community Centre in Eastlakes and enjoys the theatre and movies