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| How are your air tickets booked for int'l travel out of Saudi? |
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Cleopatra
Joined: 28 Jun 2003
Posts: 3657
Location: Tuamago Archipelago
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It depends.
If I'm departing for a relatively short break - one or two weeks - then I try to arrange my flights so that I'm away for the longest possible time and don't 'waste' time hanging around Riyadh. However, when it's the summer break, and I'm going to be away for a month or two, a few days don't make much difference either way. In this situation, I'm happy to allow a day or two to sort things out before I leave, or to rest up after my flight before starting work again.
I really don't' think such choices reveal much about the individual. It's mroe about practicalities. |
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cmp45
Joined: 17 Aug 2004
Posts: 1475
Location: KSA
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:26 am Post subject: Re: Meet and Greet |
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| Mark100 wrote: |
| Well he may be in need of serious medical help if that is the case. |
I think the ones that fall into category 1 are in need of medical attention...why would anyone choose to work in a country where they felt the need to rush to the nearest exit at the mere mention of a holiday.
Having said, that, I do realize and sympathize with the many expat. folks that live here and have family waiting for them on the outside so for those people I guess they would be more inclined to fall in category 1.
BTW am with the category 2 crowd...no family waiting for me...no need to rush around like a chicken with its head chopped off...  add to the fact that KSA is my home at the moment and so feel no need to rush anywhere..... except from work to home and from tammimi to home
....My mother was russian, my father was russian, but I'm not going anywhere! |
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003
Posts: 13859
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:53 pm Post subject: Leave late, arrive early |
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I found that the longer I stayed in Saudi Arabia, the less anxious I was to get on that first available flight out of there for holiday. I also discovered that by waiting a couple of days (and using the time to get everything ready for my return), I missed most of the mob scenes at the Riyadh airport. So,
yup, especially in my later years there, I used to generally wait a day or two.
Moreover, I'd often come back a couple of days early to give myself time to readjust. I always found the "jet-lag" going east to west never seemed to give me much trouble, but coming back it would take at least three or four days to feel right. |
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cmp45
Joined: 17 Aug 2004
Posts: 1475
Location: KSA
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 4:48 am Post subject: Re: Leave late, arrive early |
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| johnslat wrote: |
| Moreover, I'd often come back a couple of days early to give myself time to readjust. I always found the "jet-lag" going east to west never seemed to give me much trouble, but coming back it would take at least three or four days to feel right. |
Maybe this is due to the accumulation of all the illegal substances in the body while back home, which take time to expel from one's system when one returns to KSA...in other words going through "withdrawl symptoms"???  However, I know this doesn't apply to you John  |
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Mia Xanthi
Joined: 13 Mar 2008
Posts: 955
Location: why is my heart still in the Middle East while the rest of me isn't?
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:39 am Post subject: |
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Whether they accumulate substances or not in their travels, many people find that jet lag is worse when travelling east. Also, the accumulation of years (and I believe this applies to johnslat!  ) makes it harder to recover from jet lag as well. |
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scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:58 am Post subject: |
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| It serves them right for eating all that bacon. |
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Mark100
Joined: 05 Feb 2003
Posts: 441
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:44 am Post subject: |
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I preferred to sleep my jetlag off on the job in Saudi.
I actually think it helped me adjust because it took me a day or two to realise i was back in the sandtrap. |
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cmp45
Joined: 17 Aug 2004
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Location: KSA
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:06 am Post subject: |
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| Mark100 wrote: |
I preferred to sleep my jetlag off on the job in Saudi.
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Heh are you prepetuating another sterotypical portrait of expatriate teachers??? |
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Mark100
Joined: 05 Feb 2003
Posts: 441
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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| cmp45 wrote: |
| Mark100 wrote: |
I preferred to sleep my jetlag off on the job in Saudi.
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Heh are you prepetuating another sterotypical portrait of expatriate teachers??? |
For the most part nobody noticed the difference. |
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003
Posts: 13859
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:52 pm Post subject: That knits the ravelled sleeve of care |
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Dear Mark100,
"For the most part nobody noticed the difference."
How could they, being all asleep themselves?
Regards,
John |
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