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Otterman Ollie

Yes I know its a little bit more than 2 months away ,but its always good to plan ahead ,this is after all what we are told almost daily ,planning is the key isn't it ?
So guess what a large group of NS workers did at a certain well known private university somewhere in the Aegean region ?
They requested time off to go home for the xmas day holiday seeing as it run straight after the Kurban Bayram , no prizes for guessing what the outcome was seeing as this establishment does not even recognize the 25th of December as a holiday right for foreign workers .
So what are you hoping to do at that time ? Forget it or throw a sicky ?
I know a few people at the aforementioned institution have already bought their flight tickets , looks like some of them will be disappointed and some welllets just say they are the lucky ones or are they ? Nothing like knowing where you stand well in advance ,eh !

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

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I thought in a private uni that keeping your mouth shut and passing the students was the key.

Otterman Ollie · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:32 pm Post subject:

Yes how silly of me ,fancy forgetting that whatever was I thinking of ,how can I ever thank you enough for pointing that out to me ,what a life saver you are ,what a gent ,what a giant among men .Btw what are you gonna do if you can't get back to blighty for xmas ?

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

I have three weeks off for Eid and it just covers xmas and New Year. Will spend break drinking and posting.

Otterman Ollie · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:22 am Post subject:

Lucky you , three whole weeks ,I only get that in the summer ,this christmas issue is a real drag when you happen to live in a foreign country , sorry , make that a muslim country .

somnambulist · Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 30

Does n e 1 use an iPHONE here in Turkey, and if so how successfull is it. I'm due 4 a new mobile this Xmas. Shall I go for this new-fangled piece of millenium wizardry, or is it largely wasted here in Turkey?

Otterman Ollie · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:48 am Post subject:

Now that we are just a few short weeks away,how many here are being allowed to use the sacfrice Bayram to get home for xmas and see their families,if I had been allowed to go it would have been the first time in 12 years. Anyone able to top that?

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

To answer the OP's question - YES it is STILL too early. Let's wait until 24 December. That is soon enough.

yaramaz · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:10 am Post subject:

I'm going home for my first Canadian Christmas since 2001 (which in turn was my first since 1996) I haven't actually set foot in North America in 4 years so I'm quite happy to be going home even if only for a few weeks. I'll be using out 19-25th Christmas/Bayram paid holidays as well as taking a few days out of my annual holidays to be able to leave tomorrow and come back on the 30th. Yay for bacon on christmas morning!