About Me


 Hello, my friends! 

My name is Azize Betül Demirtaş and I am an ELT student from Turkey. I live in Istanbul which is one of the most beautiful cities in the world in my opinion. Even though I like hanging out with my friends, I enjoy reading books and watching movies a bit more. Other than that I like cats (mostly taking pictures of them), eating desserts, talking to my brother, and talking in general :) As I've mentioned before I am studying to become an English teacher so I am trying to learn as many things as I can to become a good one. In this blog, I am going to be sharing the things I learn mostly about the use of technology in education.

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