I had a much better day today. I went to an interview with a school that has much better pay and seems to be pretty well organized. I liked the woman who interviewed me. I hope that she offers me a job. The school would offer me health benefits which I need to get a residence permit and they’d also help me get the residence permit processed. I might run into problems getting a residence permit processed without leaving Turkey, but I hope that doesn’t turn out to be the case. I’m still a little apprehensive about the actual teaching, but that should go alright.

I was just looking at the book I’ll be using for the classes that I’m teaching this weekend. It’s going to take me a while to familiarize myself with everything. Hopefully it won’t take too long. Since the pay is quite low I’m not really willing to commit a lot of time preparing for class, but I also don’t want to screw over the students who are their because they want to learn English and have paid what I’m sure is quite a bit of money for the class. I only have one class on Saturday so tomorrow I will review everything for that class. On Sunday I have one class and 2 speaking clubs. The speaking clubs might be a little more difficult. I’d like the students to learn something, but it’s tough because it’s basically unstructured time I’ll have to fill. I think if I come up with a topic I can then elicit words or phrases that we use to talk about that topic and after putting the words on the board give the students a bunch of different questions they can ask each other. That should work.

My stomach has been upset all day and I’ve had diarrhea. I’m not sure if it’s something I ate that didn’t agree with me, or if the stress of these last few days is the culprit. I hope that tomorrow is better.