so tamam, finally!
its good that im posting about my project now, because i know more about it now (after 1,5 week of working we finally know what were sppose to do yeah [thats turkey - everything yavaş yavaş]).
the institution were (ania, jagoda, corrado & me) working for is called TEGV - Türkiye Eğitim Gönüllüleri Vakfi, meaning sth like eh turkey education volunteers foundation...xD
its one of the biggest and most serious social institutions in turkey with many branches all over turkey.
so the project were in is a "summer school" project. right now there are school holidays in turkey and for that time parents could have signed up their children to participate in this. in general were teaching english, but theres also one lesson called "zaman machinası". in that we actually can do everything we want; sports, arts, dance, spanish, cooking w/e, whatever you want to do. apart from the foreign volunteers therere also turkish ones, doing arts, computer or drama lessons with them.
were working in pairs, ania and jagoda & corrado and me. every morning at 0745 theres a service bus to pick us up, so at ~0800 we arrive at the school. 0830 the first lesson starts, always sports, always alone. after that we (in pairs now) have 3 lessons, either english or zaman machina (corrado and me are doing sth about italy and germany), until 1230. lunchtime starts and at ~1345 another service is bringing corrado and me to another place outside tegv to teach english "seriously". in tegv we have 6 different classes, ranging from 8/9 - 14/15 years and outside tegv we have 3 different classes, one on monday, one on tuesday and the last one wed&thursdays, all of them about 11 yrs.
im saying "seriously", because the children outside tegv are different. theyre there because they really want to learn english, in general theyre much more quiet and hm...attentive? (aufmerksam). sometimes i have the feeling that it doesnt really matter what were doing in tegv, its just some way to occupy the children, so theyre not on the streets all the time, but the classes outside tegv i really like, because i know what im working for. of course children in tegv are learning sth as well, more importantly of nonformal education, so actually i shouldnt think that way.
the children and this program in the afternoon will change after 3 weeks, then corrado & me will stay in tegv after lunch and jagoda & ania will go outside, but theyll continue to take care of "our" children. so at 1600 we finally finish work and considering to have some rest, waiting and walking were home at 1700.
on wednesdays we dont have classes in the morning, because were doing some trips with the children (last week we went to the zoo, this week itll be the dolphinland) and on fridays there are no classes outside tegv.
its really really good that we dont have to work the whole 5 days, because i really need some rest after some time. working with children is exhausting difficult sweet annoying and fulfilling. in germany i was always like "oh nooo, i dont like children, im too impatient, theyre getting on my nerves" etc., but here i like it. not all the time of course, every child is just too different from one another, but after the lessons (esp the ones outside tegv) i feel good and i like and want them to learn sth. most of the time my mind is occupied with thinkin bout the lessons, what we can prepare etc., but sometimes im overdoing it as well i guess. you have to be able to be spontanious as well, but hm, then again i think that we will be when it comes to that point (yeah of course, you cannot plan sth in case you have to be spontanious =P [imsosmart]). but also i think its difficult for me, cause i cannot really speak the language (corrado was here with erasmus for 6 months and hes turkish is quite good) and since im strongest in communicating with words its challenging...hooooo, but oh well, we will see how its going to develope!
im curious and open to everything.
btw its already ~27°C at ~0800, so you can imagine how it is to work here in antalya. (oh and hello 70% humidity!)
