Hilal Hastaoglu » bye

 

My Thank You’s!

You: I would like to thank you, yes you.. the one who is reading these words right this moment, for your interest in my entries.

Family: I got a pass!! I know you all share my joy right now! My beautiful mom, My super smart dad Prof. Dr. M. A. Hastaoglu, My super cool brother Hidayet, My super sweet Gramma, My super funny Grampa, Fratless FH4eVeR, SvRn, SvG and my pets TemBosh (bird), Ninja (turtle), Jess (dog). THANK YOU!

Friends: Green Cheeze, Rada, Sena, B. Bayulgen and the rest of my friends in UAE, KSA, Oman, Pakistan, Turkey, UK, Canada, USA… and the rest of you out there! THANK YOU!!

Guests: I am very flattered with all the comments and support I received from you all throughout this journey. You guys were the source of motivation for me. I hope I was able to share some of my knowledge and experience with you all. THANK YOU!

ITI (International Training Institute) http://www.iti-istanbul.com: Amanda Gamble, Sharon Leach, Liz Aykanat and Tom Godfrey for giving us the chance to the take the CELTA in Istanbul. You guys are the best of the best of the best! THANK YOU!

Oxford House College www.oxfordhousecollege.com.tr: Liz Aykanat (Director of Studies.), Mr. Haluk (Aikido Master), Matt, Fatma + Zeynep, Tugce’s daddy and the rest of the staff for their endless support and patience with us through out the CELTA.

English First www.efdilokulu.com: Amanda Gamble, Tamara (Go Calgary Flames Go!! hehe) and the rest of the staff that helped us get through the course! THANK YOU!

Mr. Tom at Interlang: You helped me get over my TTT problem THANK YOU! 

The Assessor - Steve Darn: Thank you for your golden words of advice. 

Colleagues: Ilknur, Gunseli, Alev, Emiko and Scott! Thanks guys! 

ESLbase family www.eslbase.com: Keith and the rest of the ESLbase family. Thank you for giving us this opportunity. It has been wonderful! P.S. ESLBASE ROCKS! 

CELTA Diary writers: Thank you for sharing your experience. It was great reading what others have to say about their course. I hope we all become successful teachers. Good luck to you all!! 

The rest of you… I couldn’t have managed to write entries in my diary and the CELTA all at the same time, if it wasn’t for you all. THANK YOU!

Well folks, that’s it from me.

Hope you all enjoyed my entries as much as I enjoyed writing them.

 

It’s almost good-bye time….. Time flew by so quickly. I have 2 more classes and guess what? One of them got cancelled because we already did all the input sessions for that day! As a result, I have one more day left for the CELTA! Can you believe it? (o_O)

Problem: I hope I don’t forget that we don’t have the course anymore and end up being there in class waiting for everyone to come!! AAah I’m a geek! Hehehe.

However, it will be a great challenge to teach in a class without 7 people watching (5 colleagues and 2 tutors will be missing!). Plus, I won’t have anyone to check my lesson plans

Conclusion: Believe it or not, I feel like I swallowed a bulldozer already (just the same way I felt on my first day of the course!). I was once told that when you lose that feeling, you should change your career.