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nomad soul
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| Mengxun wrote: |
My ideas are informed by both what I see on the ground working here through IIL on the this ambitious and forward looking project and a growing sense of historical and social/cultural context as I research what I am encourntering. It is also affected by my background as a business teacher and businessman, freelance business writer and consultant as well as professional pedagogical ESL experience in China, Colombia and Turkey before coming to the KSA. Finally this reflection considers my reactions to current IIL colleagues at Al Hasa NITI and online comments by current and/or former IIL employees elsewhere in the Kingdom.
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It is, of course, important that we as IIL sourced Trainers have a safe, clean and comfortable place to live but unlike this blogger to whom I posting this response as well as some my current colleagues at Ah-Ahsa NITI, happily I do and am very pleased with way IIL has and is providing all of those things. So when other actual current IIL sourced colleagues also complain about such things, I am impelled to question whether they are focused on what we are doing here....[ad nauseam] |
This a repeat of convoluted verbiage posted in the other thread about this employer. The same post appears in a couple of blogs as well. Copied-n-pasted. |
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Contradicto87
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Thanks for the heads up.
I was contacted by IIL for a interview about work in Al Hasa province.
The US State Department advises its citizens NOT to travel there for any reason.
A shady company that sells out its employees is certainly not worth going against a government warning. |
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akoo1
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| There are hundreds of Americans and other expats living and working in Al-hasa right now. US government warnings are a dime a dozen and do not reasonably justify disqualifying a region from visit. Especially since most incidents are isolated cases and it does not mean the area is unsafe for an entire people just because one of their nationals was injured or killed there. However, the bright side is it keeps out the especially ignorant and fearful. |
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Captain Willard
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| Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2015 1:35 am Post subject: |
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The most dangerous place to be in KSA is on the highway anywhere in the country. Worry about the drivers. Terrorists get executed, but there is no punishment for reckless driving. If a Saudi is driving, car accidents are God's will, not negligence or recklessness.
| Contradicto87 wrote: |
Thanks for the heads up.
I was contacted by IIL for a interview about work in Al Hasa province.
The US State Department advises its citizens NOT to travel there for any reason.
A shady company that sells out its employees is certainly not worth going against a government warning. |
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waltgomez
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| Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 1:48 pm Post subject: Re: Coming to KSA with IIL |
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| For the students' sake I hope you aren't teaching them. You have a heavy, slow writing style that makes it impossible to read or understand what you want to say. You ought to learn to express yourself better; don't use 18 words when three will do. Next time I have trouble sleeping I'm going to try to read this post again. |
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With most Saudi students not being able to spell even the simplest words in English, whether he teaches his style or whether he teaches your style, the effeect will be the same: minimal.
Plus, in writing, we are given books to teach. We just follow them.
The poster wrote in this type of English because he kind of hoped that we were intelligent and intellectual professors, not HS dropouts that can only put together the simplest of sentences.
I for one, like his style. |
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