Rain and high humidty brings the land snails out of their hiding places and into English lessons in Istanbul. In our playground lesson, Rita, 8, and I imagine and tell stories about snails. There are two snails, each with one brown spiral shell, one muscular foot, four tentacles, two eye-like light sensors, brown grey skin, and maybe a mustache. They carry their houses on their backs, and extend and retract their tentacles to look and feel around. photo: Beckie