Heading home today! I'm currently in Dulles Airport, waiting for my connecting flight back to Boston. I was delayed getting in here and missed my scheduled plane, but they got me on another flights happily. I got some dinner (OK, a pretzel and a frappucino, but really, I've been away for 23 hours now, this is about 5th meal of the day.)
Turkey was amazing. It was definitely one of my bumpier vacations, but totally worth it in the end. The language continued to baffle me but I was finally starting to get hello, please, and thank you when it was time to go.
I also met an 8th grade teacher, Vedat, who worked at my hotel. He's a history teacher too, and we are going to try to set up a letter writing exchange with our students. I'm excited about it as a chance for my kids to talk to someone who lives in a Muslim country, and he's excited for his kids to get to practice their English. What luck that we started talking as I waited for my taxi.
At the airport were a bunch of people heading to Mecca, dressed in the white robe of a pilgrim. I was already in a secure zone so I couldn't really talk to them, but they didn't have any carry on luggage except a copy of the Koran.
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