FIRST DAY AT TÖMER CLASS

When I put my first step in the TOMER centre, Gazi University at Maltepe, I was like wow! Finally I came here. I kept surfing in the internet about the place and never thought of having chances to study there after had been informed that  I might be placed in other universities for TOMER. What's TOMER actually meant? Türkçe Öğrenim,Araştırma Ve Uygulama Merkezi. There are a lot of TOMER centres,which are  institutions to teach Turkish as a foreign language to the foreigners. Since i'm gonna study medicine in Turkish inshaallah, i need to attend TOMER class for 8 months . Inshaallah if everything going smoothly. I’d dreamt that I’m gonna study TOMER in other cities, I really don’t mind, at least I could feel  different way of lives between there and Ankara , since I’m gonna study medicine in Ankara. But, He had arranged every single things and I’m sure that this is the best for me.

                                                      where i'm having turkish lessons :D

Ok. On that Thursday morning, I came sharp at 9.00 am by Ankaray. Ankaray is like a KTM in Malaysia.. maybe.lolz..Alhamdulillah I’ve learnt to go there alone because i need to be more independent after this since im gonna study here for years inshaallah. I went to the office to ask for which  class I should attend. I asked one of the uncle, trying to explain to him by using English and bahasa isyarat.lolz. Then I told him, ‘sorry, Türkçe bilmiyorum’, which means ‘ I don’t  know Turkish’. He then replied me ‘ Ingilizce bilmiyorum!!” .im sure you can expect whats the meaning. haha. Both of us then laughed. He brought me downstairs to another office, and asked me to check my name on the list. Then he gave me an envelope which I could understand needed to give to the emniyet if I want to make the ikamet (residence permit). I do understand but then he asked a boy, who was sitting on the chair to translate to me in English. He seems know English a little. Then I talked to him to make it clearer. The uncle asked me to follow him to the class, and I finally entered my class, T-6.the boy from Afganistan. Soon after that, some students got into the class. We asked for each other for our backgrounds. The other boy from China. I asked him ‘China?’ coz I didn’t expect that he is from China .i cant predict but he looks like a malaysian or somewhere from around Malaysia. Finally he said that he is fom Uyghur. I was like wow! Again! Lolz. My sisters told me that she has a lot of friend from Uyghur at Egypt and I cant believe that I’ll have friends from Uyghur, not one but four for now :D and another girl from Georgia. I never had even a penpal from Georgia.i always heard about the country but I thought its somewhere around Norway or Sweden .my geography getting worse lol. Georgia is actually located near to Armenia and Azerbaijan. Its about between Russia and Turkey. Its also known as Gurcistan in Türkçe. What attracted me most is, I was the only one who won’t able to speak Turkish! They already knew Turkish and spoke Turkish to each other. I’m trying to make myself feel better and assume that later there must be students who are coming who do not speak Turkish, just like me 10 Minutes after that, a teacher got into the class.her name is Sera. She was very sporting and cherish. She thought four of us about the Turkish alphabet. I’ve learnt it before by myself but it’s a bit different from my previous pronunciation. Now I know how to pronounce all the letters well Alhamdulillah. Time after time, another student got into the class. She is Palestinean but living in Jordan. Next, 3 students got it. 2 girls also from Uyghur and another girl from Algeria.

                                                          arkadaşlarım :)

 I’d been told that the TOMER lesson will be fully in Turkish but I never thought its too fully in Turkish. 

                                                          my turkish books..

The next teacher, named Serhat was very funny when he made all the reactions based on the alphabet to make us understand. What I love most about the TOMER lessons, eventhough it starts at 9 am and end at 4 pm, we do have break for every  45 minutes. That won’t make us feel bored and sleepy in the class. The break is about 15 minutes and in the afternoon, we have break for an hour for having lunch and namaz (solat). The first lunch, me and my classmates were about to have lunch at the café since we had been told that there was a café for students. Unfortunately, there was a very long queu to get the food. Then, they decided to have lunch at the restaurant outside the campus. Our friend from Uyghur , his 3 friends , the Algerian, the Jordanian, 2 girls from Uyghur and me went to a restaurant nearby. We ordered tavuk sandwiches for 9 of us and çay. Now I know that some of them are going to another university for example in Erzurum. Most of them are going to pursue  their studies for Master and PHD and I thought I was the only undergraduate student. I heard about Erzurum and I just remembered that it was a city where Fethullah Gulen was born. They kept saying that Erzurum is very beautiful city, and the people are very Islamic and friendly until they couldn’t explain how ‘mashaAllah’ they are :D Now,Erzurum is already in my list for places that I want visit in Turkey  .ok a lot of things need to be wrote actually. But all the experiences I had are not enough to be shown just by writing.