School starts here every year on September 15th which means this Thursday I will be starting my last school year in Azerbaijan! (For those of you who don't know yet, my close of service date is December 14, 2011!). I'm excited for school to begin because it will put me back on a normal schedule, but not looking forward to losing the freedom of being able to stay up until 2AM watching Mad Men or whatever TV show I'm addicted to (and I take way too much advantage of that freedom haha). I'm busily working to try to get all the lesson plans my counterparts and I have developed over the past year and a half compiled into big, complete sets. It is quite a monumental task! To give you an idea of how big these sets of plans will be, I'm closest to finishing the 7th form book where I am on Unit 6 of 8 and the plans are already 51 pages long. Yikes. And I'm doing this for 5 textbooks, with hopes to do 2 more this fall. I have no hope of getting it finished by the start of school (which had been the plan, unfortunately I like to procrastinate and do other things with my summer time!) but I will have at least the first lesson for each book done, inşallah!
Other than the textbooks, I spent most of my day yesterday helping Tamilə müəllim, my counterpart, prepare jars of food for winter. I cut about a million peppers, tomatoes, carrots, and potatoes and in the process made a lot of little cuts on my thumbs! Here the knives are super dull so we just cut things into our hands instead of using a cutting board, which is fine when you are only cutting for one meal but mass production takes its toll!
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