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Being a first year teacher in the teaching profession is a critical period in terms of the teaching profession process. Therefore, in-depth research and understanding of the first-year teaching in the teaching profession is important in terms of practical and political practices related to the development of the teaching profession. In this research, the comparison of candidate teachers' first years of their professional life within the east-west difference is examined in terms of the experiences and effects of those experiences in and out of school. The study group consists of prospective teachers working in Edirne and Van in the spring term of 2013-2014 academic year. This research has been conducted with a qualitative research approach and phenomenological desing has been utilized as research technique. Semi-structured interview form was used as data collection tool. The interviews with the participants took place between 25 and 40 minutes on average and the collected data were analyzed with content analysis and frequency analysis and reported by grouping according to categories. According to the results of the study, it is observed that there have been several differences between in (first meeting with the school principal, the mentor and the educational problems encountered) and out-school (transportation, housing and social activities and preparatory and basic trainings) experiences of the pre-service teachers working in Edirne and the pre-service teachers working in Van during the first year of their professional life. The results of this study were discussed with reference to similar studies in the literature.