After a flight that seemed to go on forever, but was in fact only 5 hours long, 37 tired but happy members of the BOS arrived back at school at 4am on Thursday. We were accompanied from Istanbul by Thomas who had arrived with minutes to spare from the Manchester flight, laden with allsorts of goodies, including my new laptop, on which I am typing this!
He also arrived with Marmite and more Angel Delight to boost my nearly depleted stocks. I am a man of simple tastes!
The trip to Turkey was great fun, and the students were fantastic. It doesn't mean there weren't times when I wanted to strangle one or other of them, but all in all they are good kids and were wonderful representatives of the school.
We saw lots of sights, including Troy, complete with wooden horse. Several Mosques from the Ottoman period and even snow when we ascended the mountain up to a ski resort at Bursa. The kids and some of the staff went up on the ski lift and engaged in a snow ball fight. I sat in the hotel lounge and looked after the iPods whilst sipping hot chocolate!
Thursday was a very leisurely day pottering around the house, popping to Pie in the Sky for lunch and spending 3 hours at Clippers having our hair cut, faces shaved and pampered, and our heads and shoulders massaged. The result being that we noe both have faces as soft as the baby's proverbial!
After such a stressful day, we decided not to cook but instead called Chairman Mao, who sent round some very delicious food from his homeland.
We rose latish on Good Friday and after a breakfast of coffee and croissants we headed to the Cathedral for Three Hours at the Cross. The service was ok but wasn't quite what I was hoping for, and similar yet very different to ones I had been involved in back in the UK.
We had a snack of leftovers Chinese on our return and then Thomas gave me a reading lesson in Urdu. My greatest frustration at the moment with my language learning is that I can't read more than about 10 words in Urdu. So I have set Thomas the challenge of teaching me to read in 10 days!
We then set to reorganising the furniture in the front room, which means that all is very tidied and ordered now, how long this lasts remains to be seen.
Today we are off to Mohatta Palace to see the History of the Tile and then have invited ourselves to tea at Maria's. Maria along with myself and Lubna form the 'Sewing Circle' on a Saturday afternoon, which is a time of sewing, eating and chatting.
This evening we shall be dining at Pompeii which is wonderful Italian restaurant with the world's best Creme Brulee!
Tomorrow it is church in the morning and then to the Avari for a swim and lounge by the pool and then brunch at the Marriott. Monday is a day at the beach and then Tuesday to Thursday it's off to the Country Club for more relaxing and recuperation, a hard life but someone has to do it...
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