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scot47
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 Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 2:02 pm Post subject: STRANGE EXPATS IN KSA |
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So who wins the prize for the strangest TEFLer Expat ın KSA ? İ reckon İ have met some of them - may even be a candidate myslf !
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh Scot... you're surely a contender... |
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scot47
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| İ Certainly hope so. But I am not as strange as the guy who goes around talkıng to the Djınn that other humans cannot see. Or the one who lıves on Fray Bentos tınned steak pıes shıpped from home. |
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veiledsentiments
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I worked with a fellow whose beloved jebel dog died and he buried it out in the desert. For the next couple of years, he went out and dug it up regularly to 'talk' to it.
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Sand Trapped
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Huh...and I thought there was nothing to do in Saudi Arabia.
Correction: should have said "Middle East". You didn't work in KSA, did you VS?
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Saudi4Ever
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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| i hope i dont get flamed for this...i dont know any particular person but in general that i can nominate. however, i find that the single male british expats are rather eccentric. |
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veiledsentiments
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I found plenty of eccentrics of all nationalities... I think it is the field... 
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andrew
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| Is that dog story for real? Surely you're pulling my leg. |
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scot47
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| Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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There was a guy working for Saudi Arabian Airlınes. He felt sorry for the feral cats on the compound and ın the Souk opposıte. He used to rescue them, give them medical treatment, feed them up and shıp them back to Arızona. This over a poeriod of MANY years !
Word was that most of them died not long after arrivıngbecasuse they were not resistant to Arızona cat viruses.
Many times crazier than Yours Truly. |
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veiledsentiments
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the dog story is 100% true... merely one in a list of tales about this particular character...
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shadowfax
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Sounds more like attention-seeking behaviour than actual eccentricity.
I think the motivation of genuine eccentricity involves an indifference to observation. |
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Paul in Saudi
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| Francis X Andrews, the long-running letter-writer to the Arab News. |
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zaytuni
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:12 am Post subject: deleted |
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scot47
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:08 pm Post subject: in chains |
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| So how nmany EFL teachers are shipped out after going bananas ? |
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scot47
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:16 pm Post subject: Re: in chains |
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AAAAARGH !
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