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elegant · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 6

hi there

if you got a message to me please send it again as i am having trouble finding my way round this site

waiting for visa to clear and heading to ha'il next week 10 days

ciao

Cleopatra · Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 3:45 pm Post subject:

You do know you're posting on the board, not sending PMs?

Just thought I'd ask.

elegant · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 6

what's a pms

and thanks but i dunno what ya mean

johnslat · Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 3:57 pm Post subject:

Dear elegant,
You'll need one more post (5 total) before you can sent/receive PMs.
When you have that, if you clock on the user-name of the person you want to PM, you'll get that' person's profile page which has a PM button on it. Click on that and you'll go to the site where you can PM.
Regards,
John

elegant · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 6

thanks guys

posting a message

what next

where do i post these 5 messages i need to operate?
here?
if not here then where

im just a simple lass
i can't even make a smiley come up here for gods sake

eleagant

johnslat · Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:33 pm Post subject:

Dear elegant,
You already have 6 posts now, so you can PM whomever you want, provided that person also has at least five posts.
To PM, please follow my instructions above.
To use a "smiley" just move your cursor over to the "smiley menu" on your left and click on the "smiley you want: Very Happy

Hope this helps,
Regards,
John

The Lathe of Heaven · Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:19 am Post subject:

TLOH

ps. like this John?

johnslat · Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:33 am Post subject:

Dear TLOH,
"ps. like this John?"

Like it? I LOVE it!.

Regards,
John
Very Happy

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

Elegant... I am very confused at your last three threads. Are you asking us a question? Are you trying to ask your employer in Ha'il a question? What is your goal here? Are you a teacher?

Be sure to use the "post reply" button.

Do not use the "new topic" button.

VS

trapezius · Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:23 pm Post subject:

johnslat · Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:39 pm Post subject:

Dear Trap,
Naughy, naughty - have you never PMed? Have you never gotten PMs?

Dear elegant.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. PMs are "private messages," which you can send to/receive from other posters once you have five posts on the forums.

Regards,
John

baratsagos bagoly · Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:45 pm Post subject:

Hello? Is this thing on? After a week of reading countless threads (?) posts(?) in this ME forum....oh my, this thread (?) this thread (?) is hilarious. I learned enough from reading it how to maybe post a reply.
Thanks.

Where I am at today:

I accepted an offer with hail before coming to this forum. I now realize, hey, it's no big deal that I never heard from them again....

I have a skype interview with sabis ppp for a position that I don't think I'm qualified for...

I have a skype interview with bell ksu that ...

What do you think? Am I batting a thousand?

And I'm wondering what could be worse than maggots mysteriously appearing every morning in my bathtub and being assaulted twice in public by a woman strange to me (punched in the face) and having a screaming match with a Taiwanese supervisor in the teacher's room then having same cry when I left the job a couple years later (read kookoo), and having 18 different roommates in 2 years ad nauseam. True, I may have low self esteem with a dash of masochism, but I'm not desperate (yet)! It's a condition.

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

baratsagos bagoly · Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 5:15 pm Post subject:

You are famous. I bow to you. My interview is on Sunday. I have searched for information on sabis. What I got was "a mind numbing teaching "system," chaos, anglocentric, no respect for foreigners"...have I missed something? Though the pay is low it could be better than any salary I've ever made in 10 years efl teaching. I'll do the interview for practice and hear them out. I really don't think I'm qualified anyway...
It would be hard to resist an offer of kindergarten work. I enjoy the little ones. Watch this space.

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

Or is that infamous? Cool

Most of the Sabis threads relate to their own K-12 school system that is all around the Middle East. This is really UAE info - not Saudi - but PPP is part of the new contracts to re-vamp the public schools of Abu Dhabi Emirate. Thus far if has very much had its up and downs... two steps forward, one back. Sabis got a contract to handle some of this in Al-Ain. (or it was) But I'm just riffing on stuff posted here.

If you are a qualified kindergarten or primary grades teacher with your national certificate/license to teach... apply to TeachAway. Same contract, better bosses... slightly more organized.

But if you are not certified, talk to Sabis... see what they offer... if you have a high tolerance for bad employers as long as the pay arrives... Al-Ain isn't a bad place to live. Laughing

VS