One month in Turkey

This is a personal stuff I want to narrate. Tomorrow, I'll be four weeks here. Yes, one month it is in a foreign land. Looking back to my first day, I could really say I've improved a lot. After completing 50 hours in my Tömer class, I can now understand simple sentences. And I can compose simple one's too. I've learn mastered many Turkish terms (I can fill the alphabet with three Turkish words each). Reflecting on my learning journey, I realized I have strength in recalling names of things and people, but I am struggling with action words. I guess it goes to say that I'm more of a speaker than a performer (😄😄). I could manage simple communication with stranger too. I know exactly how to load my Metro card, ask for a change, ask how much an item cost, ask if an item is available, ask for directions (though I rely on gestures to understand their reply), and greet strangers. I've manage to accompany friends and process some documents even with my limited vocabulary. I don't get lost in the univeristy too. And because I walk a lot, I learn shortcuts as well. And the most amazing thing I realized is that language really isn't a barrier for people to understand each other. Our teacher doesn't know how to speak English but she still manage to teach us everyday. I'm still dumbfounded by the fact that I'm learning even though she discusses our lessons in Turkish. Wew. It's real. And as we go deeper and deeper into more serious grammar rules, I can't help but be astonish as to how this language has been arrange. You only have to learn the root word, you add specific suffix and it can become plural, possessive, past tense, present tense (that's as far as my lessons taught me but I think there's a lot more). This language also has so much adherence to order, cohesion and rhyme. And I think there lies my strength in learning this. I can easily spot when something's doesn't match or fit. I'm still struggling with the cold weather, especially when I have to take a bath in the morning. The food is manageable at this point. And I'm really happy that I've earned a "çok güzel" from my teachers everyday. As nonsense as it is, I always make it a goal that I hear them tell those words to me. It kinda make my day somehow. So here's to a month and many more in shaa Allaah.