Türkçe?

I finally started Turkish classes two weekends ago. The course runs for 12 weeks, on weekends only, on both Saturday and Sunday from 1pm to 4pm. It was never going to be easy; after working a full week usually 10-11 hours per day and then finding some brain capacity to take in a whole new language is a big task. But I have no excuse. I have been here one year and really can't string a proper sentence together.

I am one of 7 in the class and funnily enough, there is no other Australian there; French, Korean, Columbian, Pakistani, American, Dutch. Two people dropped off after the first week and the Columbian joined us last week. Everyone is nice and all learning the language for different reasons.

The views from the area, Gumüşsuyu; not far from Taksim, are so lovely. The area sits high up and from the streets you can see the Bosphorous. It's also situated close to the Beşiktaş Football stadium so there is always a stream of fans from some team or other strolling the streets on Saturdays cheering and distracting us. There is a nice little Turkish style bakery right next door where I grab tea and poğaca from before class.

So, lets see how these next 10 weeks pan out. I think it will get harder as the weather gets nicer....ho hum...