Our language school building is a very thin, tall building with just one long-ish classroom on each floor and windows across the narrow wall that face out to the front. The general pattern so far has seemed to be that as you go up a level, you go down a floor. And the highest floor I've been in up to this point was the 5th floor - which had a sea view, just, if you sat in the right position. The last couple of courses the view has been limited to the street and pharmacy opposite.
But this location for this month's course is a classroom on the 9th floor - the very top floor! - that has glass windows all along one side and a great view.
This is looking across the Bosphorus to the Asian side of Istanbul (excuse the reflection in the photo)
However, just in case you're feeling jealous, once the lesson started we drew the curtains to avoid blinding ourselves in the morning sun and spent 4 hours looking at boards like this instead:
Revising 'indirect speech' from the last course...
My ambition for this next month (in addition to at least equalising with my husband's exam result!) is to walk up the 9 flights of stairs every morning. There is a lift to the 8th floor, but I thought climbing the stairs might be a good way to try and get some exercise... we'll see how it goes!
