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Sorry I've been lame about posting lately, I've been generally lame about all things internet related because I've been too lazy to go online. Now that I have dial-up at my house I don't want to waste time going into Tovuz...but the dial-up is in my FREEZING cold kitchen and I only use it after 11PM when I figure now one is calling my house...which means I just don't go use it at all! But now I'll do my best to catch you up on what's been going down in my world:
For Christmas I stayed at site with my host family. We did stockings and presents for each other in the morning. In the afternoon my sitemate Beth came over and we made "brunch" (but it wasn't ready until like 3 o'clock, so can we really still call it brunch at that point?) which was a fantastic breakfast casserole thing. And then for dinner the shopkeeper bought a turkey for us and my mom killed and cleaned it for us so we had a big holiday dinner. Tamilə müəllim, one of my English teacher counterparts, came over to celebrate, which was really nice.
Next was my birthday, which I also stayed at site for. It was the first time I've ever had to work on my birthday! I taught 2 classes and then my 11th form students had a tea party for me down in our school canteen. They waited until after they knew I was finished teaching because they knew that I wouldn't give up my class time, even for my own birthday party haha. After school my old LCF Nuranə and her husband and mom came over to wish me a happy birthday. And then my mom cooked up another holiday dinner, this time with 2 chickens. One we made into levangi (which means stuffing it with walnuts, etc) and the other I made stuffing for. Two of my English teachers came over to celebrate with us and other neighbors and friends from the village. It was really sweet how many people came to wish me a happy birthday and give me presents. Almost made me forget that I'm 24 and thus super old.
Then came the last week of classes before school let out for New Year. I gave all my classes final exams that covered everything we had learned since September during that week. I had a marathon of grading them all so that my teachers and I could look at them when we wrote the students' semester grades. I have mostly blocked the grading experience from my mind, but I think I remember my students doing pretty well. I'm going to look at the breakdown of how many kids actually failed/passed etc...and decide how successful I am as a teacher. Maybe I don't want to look...
And finally, I finished off the holiday season with New Year's Eve in Baku. It was really nice to see a whole bunch of other volunteers, especially because I was at site for Christmas, and get to hang out with our new AZ8's, we had a nice big group. And on New Year's Day I went out and stayed in Ceyranbatan with my host family from training for a night.
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