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Amenti
Joined: 09 Jun 2006
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Location: farthest sandbox on the right
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Hi Cleo,
I heard your call!!! I, as you know, take taxis all the time in Riyadh. How else are we going to get around since we can't drive! We would all starve to death for not being able to get to the market, and you sure in the h*** can't walk.
As someone on this site mentioned, the muttawa have cooled it and have gone back to Qassim. Maybe that is where Prodigy was living, then what he was saying might make sense.
Unless you are obviously a Muslim male with a beard, thoab, etc... no one is going to hassle you during prayer time. But all the shops and restaurants closing is a headache! Women are never questioned about their prayer.
I think that after the initial shock of being here, most of us western women find our niche here and find Saudi more than managable. |
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dutchguy1000
Joined: 19 Jun 2006
Posts: 8
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dear people,
Thank you for the replies and info.
reading the replies gives me the feeling that all is not as bad as I thought, and it sounds interesting.
the atmosphere of the discussion seems a little tens, but maybe because I deal here with teachers.
I myself, to be honest, am not a teacher as in schools or other.
I'm an engineer that sets up factories for CD production, but in a way I'm also a teacher as I learn the people how to run the factory and how to make good quality production.
At the moment I'm busy arranging my and my wifes visa to visit Jeddah, and if all goes well, I will arrive in the end of next week....
maybe see you later...
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scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
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If you are going to Jeddah check out the ITALIAN CLUB. Just off Hail Street at the Balad (ie downtown) end.
An oasis of liberalism in a stange environment. But then if you are a Muslim, maybe your wife lives behind a veil ? If she is, then she will not be permitted to enter these premises ! |
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dutchguy1000
Joined: 19 Jun 2006
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well people, in two day's I will arrive in Jeddah for a month to start with.
Thank you all for the information.
I have a much better feeling about the situation over there now.
maybe I will meet some of you...
Greetz |
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shadowfax
Joined: 31 May 2003
Posts: 212
Location: Pocket Universe 935500921223097532957092196
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:16 pm Post subject: My fortnight's worth of wit |
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| But I don't neccessarily agree with VS that she wold be unhappy in KSA. There are fairly large Indonesian communities in the major cities in KSA, so she would not have to lack for the company of her co-nationals. |
A casual pruning from a foisonous crop:-
"Neccessary" Sic. (Please note, italics for a foreign word-Latin for "thus", of course, my fellow sister pedant: for herein to my base disparagement am I made like unto you, a howling Holofernes).
Where is more dishonour, in the above outrage, or in the mistaking of a consonant in the midst of the name of that Norwegian collaborator, who so reminds me of certain bands of traitorous runagates hereabouts?
Please define "big word". Does that refer to the number of syllables or letters? Or is it since my diction were not countenanced in the shibboleths of perfidious political correctness?
Lo, thou hast thy death wound in this asp! If not your "scot" pretender will avail his feeble pecking poll and blunten mallet wit in customary hind-like service. |
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