Selam! (Hi)
Today I thought that I would give you all a taste of what Turkish is like. Turkish is based on suffixes, so instead having separate words, suffixes are added to verbs and nouns to form sentences. For example, the word masa means table, and masam means my table. All of the suffixes make Turkish kind of confusing, but I have been studying and I think that I might be starting to understand it. Here is a sample of the language: Güzel bir gün olduğu için, bir yürüyüşe gitmeye karar verdik. It means: As it was a nice day, we decided to go for a walk.

Not much has happened recently. School is still confusing, and I am wondering what I am going to do when a teacher decides to give my class a test. However, I did learn to count in German last week, so that was really cool. It is very weird taking German taught in Turkish, instead of learning one foreign language, I have to learn two at the same time! In most of my classes, I have given up trying to pay attention. I take notes based on what my teachers write on the board and I spend the rest of the class time studying Turkish grammar. My teachers don't seem to mind, they are impressed that I am actually trying to learn the language. I have found a good thing about taking classes in Turkish, however. Any math or science class that I take in the future that is taught in English will now seem comparatively simple, or, at the very least, I will have some idea what the teacher is talking about!

I hope everyone has a good rest of the week and, to all my Jewish readers, I hope you had a good Rosh Hashanah and an easy fast.