I slept in today. Since yesterday was an off day – both mentally and physically, I was fine sleeping in until a little past 11 am. I was up late so it really wasn’t sleeping excessively. Plus, it’s nice to have more relaxing days.

I went to the meeting tonight which was nice. Afterwards we did fellowship where we always do fellowship, which was kind of annoying. I would have eaten something, but the restaurant is expensive. Instead I spent a lot on a glass of fresh squeezed grapefruit juice. It tasted great, but I kind of wish they would start doing fellowship somewhere else.

A guy in the program plays for a band and some of the other people went to see him perform tonight. I joined them. It was fun to see a bit of the Istanbul nightlife. I just don’t go out like that anymore. I ended up talking to a nice girl from the UK and she gave me teaching advice which was appreciated. All in all it was a fun night. I’m grateful to have my head in a better place than it’s been these last few days. Everything is in the process of working out. I can, and will, allow God to do for me what I cannot do for myself.

I’m still hoping to hear back from this woman I interviewed with yesterday. If she offers me a job I’ll take it. If not I’ll most likely leave here after my tourist visa runs out. I really can’t imagine trying to figure out the residence permit on my own. It sounds like no one really knows what the new rules are and I’ve also heard that I need things I don’t have – like health insurance. An employer to coordinate those things would be great. Anyway, I guess my point is that I should start taking a closer look at where I’ll go when this is done. I’ve been here over a month which means it very well could be sooner rather than later and the more prepared I am the better. I haven’t thought so much about it, but perhaps I could go to Beirut or another country and chill for a while. I could also finally run off to India/Nepal and do that for several months. That would be pretty cool. I’m grateful that I have time to think about it, but I’d rather not back myself into a corner again and then choose someplace because I’ve got no where else to go. I suppose I could also fly to Thailand and bum around there for a month and then head to India from Thailand. It’s a cheap flight. But, I’ve also got to get an Indian visa. Blergh. Ok, so I guess I’ve proven I’ve got a lot to think about. That’s for sure. And really, if a decent job comes through that will coordinate the work visa I’ll stay. It’s very likely I could find one of those if I just gave it a try.

I am teaching in the morning. I’m not very excited about this. Partly because I’ll end up being tired for the class since it’s getting late now. I’m also not really prepared to teach. The woman who does the coordinating emailed me the unit that I’ll be teaching. I just sat down and looked at it – part of it, rather. I was told to teach about an hour a page so in a 4 hour class I’ll go over roughly 4 pages. The unit from the book is 10 pages long. I really can’t lesson plan or get too familiar with it when I don’t know what 4 pages out of those 10 I’ll even be teaching. This isn’t such a huge problem because I didn’t really want to spend much time lesson planning. The pay is low and I’m not interested in putting a lot of time outside of class into preparing for class. I hate to say that, but it’s simply the way I feel. I’ll see how tomorrow goes and then maybe spend more time preparing for my classes on Sunday. I think I’ll like teaching adults. Hopefully that goes well. If not, I’ll quit and it won’t be much skin off my back.