February 8, 2012

bint-alsrh asked: Salaam friend :) this is (smc27lv). I deleted my tumblr and then decided I wanted it back <---Stupid. Are you counting down the days? I wanted to bother you about your classes. Are they integrated skills classes or do they have a focus?

W/salaam! I’m really glad you’re back. You know, deleting my tumblr would be one of the most thought through things I would EVER do. I would have to make sure I was certain I wanted it gone (I don’t think I’ll ever be certain).

3 weeks and 8 hours before I land in London, in sha Allah. I’ll be home about 14-16 hours after that.

Currently I’m teaching speaking and listening but that has grammar and vocab thrown in. Last semester I thought a couple of integrated skills classes. Last year I was actually teaching English for academic purposes - for medicine. That was really fascinating. We get a mix. It’s kind of the luck of the draw. I work for the largest TEFL programme in the world - we have 10,000 students (ten thousand!) so there’s always something going on if you want to focus on one area. 

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January 24, 2012
I told my boss I’m quitting.

I told him I’m going to go and see him on Sunday and give him some news he’s not going to be happy about. He asked me if I’m resigning and I told him yes. He asked me why and I told him that I’d tell him when I saw him on Sunday.

Sunday is the 29th so I’ll work my one month notice up to the 29th of February and then leave Saudi on March 1st. It’s 37 days from now. Five weeks and two days!

Can you help me come up with some cool/fun/crazy excuse about why I have to leave?

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December 29, 2011
Goodbye Saudi

The countdown has begun. 3 days of December left. 31 days of January. 28 days of February. The first day of March. 63 days exactly remaining and I’ll be home.

63 days is 9 weeks exactly.

The first of March and I’ll be home. The first of March and I’ll see my family and my loved ones and my friends. The first of March and I’ll leave this place behind. The first of March can’t come soon enough.

I’m feeling more ready to leave than I ever have before. Saying that, it’s still not 100% that I’m going… We’ll see.

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November 30, 2011
I took the day off work today…

by calling in sick and I realised it might be something that’s happened a few times too many when I went to the doctors’ office to get a sick note and the doctor, as well as all the nurses, knew my full name.

It doesn’t bode well…

19 days of teaching left this semester. 22 more next semester. 41 teaching days until I’m out of here. 90 days in total.

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November 11, 2011
I’m quitting Saudi

I’m 90% sure that I’m finishing.

The biggest worry I had about it was my brother and I talked to him tonight and he’s amazing. Even though that’s the case I’m going to hang on until the first or second week of February and then I’m going home.

That’s 11 or 12 weeks and then I’m done.

Fuck this place.

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