Our one weekend in Bursa

I made it through another week! I just finished at Milli Piyango, the only state (public) school out of the six we visit. It was a long week because my partner, Ewa, from Poland was/is very ill and spent the entire week recuperating. This means I was taking on the teens single-handed. By the way, I saw her (Ewa) today for the first time since Monday, I think, and she said she was feeling much better. Hopefully she will feel good enough to join me next week.

This weekend starts tonight with a night out at a club called Danza. We've gone there before and the general consensus is that the club is very nice, but we're not such big fans of the music. Tomorrow Ewa and I will have breakfast at the home of Banu, one of the teachers from Milli Piyango. She is a very kind lady, and I'm looking forward to it and to actually spending some time with Ewa! Then we will all meet at 11am for a kind of Sports Fun Fest Day. We will spend the good part of the day just playing-basketball, volleyball, tennis, ping pong, and I think we can use the pool, too. After we've worn ourselves out, we're going to get changed and head over to some kind of "traditional Turkish dinner". I'm not exactly sure what this is all about, but I think it may have to do with eating with some city officials or something. Nothing fancy shmancy, though.

On Sunday we'll get to do something really fabulous that we haven't been able to do yet-REST! Sunday is a free day to do as we please. I will try and spend most of it sleeping in, as I'm sure most other people will do, too; but, the last time I tried this I woke up at 8am, so I'm not sure how well it will work out. Then I was thinking about trying to get some folks together, or if not I could just go by myself, to walk to the top of Tophane. It is a type of clock tower structure that is situated very high up on a cliff, and when you go up there you can see pretty much all of Bursa. I think it would be a great way to spend Sunday, though I think a lot of people will have this idea. Sunday is supposed to be beautiful and 18 degrees!

There are many other things I would like to do here in Bursa, that will have to wait for another day. I want to visit the tomb of Osmangazi (it's at the top of Tophane, so if it's not closed on Sunday I can do it then I s'pose) and also something called the green mosque or tomb or something like that.