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Hatcher · Joined: 20 Mar 2008 Posts: 602

I think I know how most will respond but.... What is our job here?

1. Walk in and teach ESL and leave?

2. Try to open their minds?

3. Change their perceptions and attitudes toward education?

2buckets · Joined: 14 Dec 2010 Posts: 515 Location: Middle East

#1, plus, keep your mouth shut and put your money in the bank.

sicklyman · Joined: 02 Feb 2013 Posts: 930

what on earth prompted you to include options 2 and 3?

plumpy nut · Joined: 12 Mar 2011 Posts: 1652

Do the best you can to teach English and collect your money. Unless its in Abha, there you just collect your money.

fledex · Joined: 05 Jun 2011 Posts: 342

How about changing #1 to "Walk in and leave?" This might better reflect our role of presenting a foreign face to the students for a while. In Saudi, I'm not so sure about the "and teach ESL" part.

Forget 2 and 3; but, I might add a 4th about learning something new yourself.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

What is Plumpynut's problem with Abha ?

sicklyman · Joined: 02 Feb 2013 Posts: 930

never thought I'd see the day when, of all people, scot47 would question someone's apparently irrational opinion on a particular forum topic.

well, well, well...

babur · Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 2:51 am Post subject: here's how you do it

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

1 is absurd. Everyone knows the answer is 99.

As for Sicklyman - I have escaped from the asylum. He is still there ! In his defence he will of course tell us that he is idyllically happy and earning a zillion riyals a month !

sicklyman · Joined: 02 Feb 2013 Posts: 930

MuscatGary · Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 7:29 am Post subject: Re: Our job?

[quote="Hatcher"]I think I know how most will respond but.... What is our job here?

The same as in all of the Gulf, your job is the three B's:

1. Babysit

2. Bank the money

3. Bail out...when you've had enough of 1. or have achieved enough of 2.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Your job is to persuade all of them the moon is really made of green cheese. And that only Presbyterians will be saved.

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

Grendal · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 7:47 am Post subject:

Nitaqat.

Now it is their job. They want to teach English and other subjects like maths, sciences, and health sciences by themselves through the Saudiaization Programme. Eventually they will end up with poorly equipped Saudi National teachers and instructors that will do the same thing we are, which is nothing. So in the end it all works out to their advantage and right into their lifestyles. All students will get full marks and graduate universities with honours degrees to become managers in companies that cater to no one, because there will be no one but themselves here.

Good plan. You idiots.

Grendal

MuscatGary · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 7:50 am Post subject: