Turkish Delight

Madeleine Elfenbein is a 21-year old English teacher living in Izmir, Turkey. Her blog, Melfenblog: Journal of an American, a Broad, is an eclectic mix of international politics, travel diary, and reflections on her experiences there:

For example, did you know that for the past eleven weeks I taught a weekly one-and-a-half-hour course titled Issues in Business to my eighth-grade students, for which the curriculum was entirely under my control? How I ended up heading a course with this title is a long, stupid story. Anyway, when the train ran off the tracks, I decided to run with it, and I dragged all my kids with me. I ended up teaching a course that was basically all about corporate malfeasance in its many forms, from maquiladoras to DDT producers, capped by a two-week marathon viewing of The Insider.

Madeleine's clever, cosmopolitan perspective is well worth a read.