11/23/10- Tuba and I met in a CIES classroom and we talked about her test and the speaking section. We've met these last few times after her class and before mine so we say we will rush but ended getting caught up in some activity/convo.
11/30/10- Yesterday I went to Tuba's house for a few hours. She is doing so much better on her speaking sections that she works with day and night on her computer. She showed me the formula she had of answering/defining/ explaining/example/conclusion and she does stay right in the 45 sec limit. As she walked me out she said "I am happy!" And she did seem to less nervous than the week before.
I also got a chance to meet with Dephne last week. She is a grad student from Turkey with whom last year I went over some of her lectures to prepare for the classes she had to speak. She is now teaching Turkish to Lindsay in our class so I got the chance to reconnect with her and hear about hew family and dissertation (Western Representation of the East). She also is incredibly busy, like Tuba, keeping long hours studying and writing- trying to get her dissertation done! She said "I like working these hours. I spend all day alone studying, all night studying. It lets me know me. I am getting to know me better through working hard with myself."
I'm glad you got to reconnect with Defne! Her birthday is tomorrow, fyi - the 2nd.
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