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themeepsong · Joined: 16 Oct 2008 Posts: 13

I'm considering moving to KSA, so I have a few questions.

First, a few details about myself;

I have a BA in Communications Studies, a TEFL certificate, a post-graduate degree in TESOL and 5 years of ESL teaching experience in Korea(both corporate and elementary).

1. Will it be difficult to find a University or College job with my credentials?

2. I'll be bringing my Korean wife and she likes to drink(open season for all you bloggers Wink

). How long does it take to get to Bahrain from Riyadh or Dammam?

3. What cities do you recommend in Eastern KSA?

Thanks.

sorry to be such a newbie

brasscat · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 9:45 am Post subject: Some Easy/Some Hard

19 Oct.

Yes, you can find a position rather easy. PMU is hiring at this moment.
It is in Al-Khobar, Eastern province, KSA.

Coming with your wife is no issue, alot of people travel accompanied.

Drinking. In public, no. However, there are possibilities. Also Bahrain is nearby for the Lounge Lizard Brigade.

From Al-khobar, Dammam is 1 1/2 hours away and Riyad is 6 hours away.
brasscat

Cleopatra · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 2:01 pm Post subject:

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:19 pm Post subject:

sheikh radlinrol · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 1222 Location: Spain

EG Boy · Joined: 15 Oct 2008 Posts: 6 Location: coronado

"Since your post sounds fairly coherent, I shall give you the benefit...etc. etc."
Does this tone strike anyone, aside from myself, as a trifle condescending? And it isn't as if our dear old Queen of the Desert has never spoken thus before.
Regards--just a curious American who would love to hear anyone's thoughts on the matter.

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Since this is your first post, you may be unaware of the not unusual appearance of trolls with similarly worded posts.

Since the topic of this thread is whether themeepsong should come to Saudi with his Korean wife, I suggest keeping to the topic and perhaps you could send a PM to Ms Cleo if you are worried about her possibly being condescending.

VS

Neil McBeath · Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 277 Location: Saudi Arabia

EG Boy,

I am afraid that you will find this type of acid supercilliousness is stock in trade for the Aspic Queen.

Ditto for her handmaiden, who has just reproved you for daring to question the approach taken by one of the long-established posters.

The rationale behind this is that, as a new poster, you have few, if any, rights, and certainly any slip you make will be pounced on and publically derided.

This is a Teachers' Comunity. It is not, however, a Community of Practice. So-called "newbies" join, and frequently become so discouraged by the hostility they find that thery cease posting after a few days.

Which is what the obsessive-compulsive gang-leaders want.

trapezius · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 1:47 pm Post subject:

Cleopatra · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:10 pm Post subject:

Oh dear oh dear, some of our darling male posters are way too sensitive for their own good.

Some might think it utterly unremarkable that a poster who is considering a sojourn in one of about five countries on earth which ban alcohol, should, in a short post, make reference to his wife's fondness for alcohol. That's fine. I, however, stand by his comments, whatever all our on-board ninnies with too much male-only time might think.