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Today, my cohort (or rather, the lambs who are steadying their nerves and preparing their necks for the chopping block) took a DELTA practice test for Module 1 today. The mood was grim: Faces were drawn. Notebooks were returned to bags without any joie de vivre. Sighs were audible. I was extremely cautious as I used the cryptic guideline answers …
She spends weeks packing, but nevertheless arrives in Turkey with things she will quickly abandon (the Rosetta Stone for Turkish; a foreign haircut; a suitcase full of the wrong clothes). She doesn’t yet know that her intangibles are infinitely more valuable (a little bit of CELTA experience; unbridled enthusiasm; the conviction that this job in Turkey — her first opportunity …