This year’s Istek conference was another great success, a rich experience and a momentous event as it was last year. There were great speakers and outstanding sessions, the organization was top notch and conference topics proved to be very interesting and inspiring. Also, I had the pleasure and honour to be one of the keynote presenters this year. It was also great to meet my PLN again and meet some of them face to face for the first time.

But this isn’t the reason why I write this post today. I am writing this, because what is more amazing and outstanding than this conference is Burcu Akyol, the ELT star! She is absolutely beautiful and adorable inside and out. Can anybody be more modest and generous than her? She is always welcoming, smiling and bringing sunshine to everyone’s faces.She is patient and very kind. The respect she gives each person is outstanding. She has an infectious and inspiring soul with a special gift as a person and as an educator in seeing the potential in others and using her potential for making a positive difference in our world and she has a great vision! I would like to thank her for hosting such a great event again, which has opened me up to make connections with others. Special thanks again to her for being a true friend, for sharing her heart, profession, and congrats to her for building up a great kingdom of ELT!! I am fortunate to follow the way she has lit up for us!!

Also, my compliments and cheers for her excellent team for making this event happen, and thanks to my PLN who has been a great inspiration to me from the beginning of my journey! And if you have missed this great opportunity this year, don’t miss it again!! And follow Burcu’s digital steps here and here.

And today, as you can see from the picture on the left side (thanks Burak Akyuz for that pic,he really tried hard to take the picture), @burcuakyol and I met face to face!!

We are both teachers in different schools in Istanbul,Turkey and we first saw each other on Twitter =)  and decided to meet.

It wasn’t difficult to recognize  Burcu. First you can easily pick her from her hair colour, I think she is one of those rare&lucky people who can wear that colour!!  When you start conversation with her, you can recognize her from her clever, engaging, motivating, enthusiastic posts and tweets. She is so lively, cheerful and has a beautiful smile on her face! We had a lovely conversation for about six hours non stop. A lot to talk and share!!

What I think is now that, Twitter is not only a social micro blogging platform but also it’s a social micro blogging platform that is a lot more than that! You can convert it into real life!

Also, I would like congratulate Burcu on her new position as the Coordinators of the Foreign Languages Departments of Istek Schools. (BTW, there are more  than 10 Istek Schools) She really deserves where she is now!

And I hope to meet some other lovely tweetchers that I’m inspired  from every single day. Who is next? I can wait to see =)

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