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scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

................at end of October this year. How long do YOU get ?

posh · Joined: 22 Oct 2010 Posts: 430

Yippee!!! 3 weeks!!!

now in ksa · Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Posts: 35 Location: KSA

2 weeks

lcanupp1964 · Joined: 12 Dec 2009 Posts: 381

At KAU, we can leave at 5pm on Oct. 17th. Today is my second day of teaching (4 hours at that) and I've already started thinking about the Haji breaK. Very Happy

posh · Joined: 22 Oct 2010 Posts: 430

5pm!!! They're cheating you. I'll be away by 10am! As soon as I got back from summer vacation I was rifling through the calendar checking up on exact Haj dates.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

In many places no one is ever sure when you can go until it is announced. This drives many Westerners crackers. They cannot live without constant reference to a calendar ! Plans are made months in advance. NOT the weay locals do it.

ind you if you are buying a ticket tol escaope from Arabia, it helps if you have a date....... A point that seems to escape Saudi managers.

cmp45 · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 1475 Location: KSA

People spend so much time, energy and worry trying to get into Saudi Arabia and once they finally manage to get in. They spend all their time, energy and worry trying to get out. Laughing

Happy Holidays!

trapezius · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 11:25 am Post subject:

Holidays start at the end of the working day on the 17th, and classes resume on the 3rd. It is official.

We were planning on going to Morocco to visit my brother, but we will probably scratch that as we spent a ton in Turkey/Cyprus in the summer to feel normal and human again after a difficult and busy term last spring.