A Principal Who Made a Difference #2: Class That Blooms in the Snow

A local driver named Osman Abi took him as far as the car could go, then waited with the belongings while the teacher walked the last two kilometers through a blizzard in darkness. He arrived nearly frozen and went straight to the school, where a colleague lit the stove and helped him recover.

He was deeply motivated by his lifelong ambition to teach and refused to wait idle. Even knowing that three teachers had recently frozen to death on similar roads in the region, he said his drive to teach overcame even his fear of death.

He slept in the school's principal office after finding it difficult to adapt to staying in villagers' homes. Unable to cook, he ate eggs three times a day — soft-boiled in the morning, boiled at noon, and fried in the evening — alongside bread that had gone as hard as firewood in the dry Sivas air.