I am finally settling in to my new home and new job in Saudi Arabia. I am teaching English as a Foreign Language, in a private secondary school for boys during the mornings. I also go next door to the intermediate school and visit each English class there for one period each week. I still do not have a reliable internet connection, so I am not able to do much here at my favorite English web site.
THESE ARE EXAMPLES OF SOME NATIVE WILDLIFE WE SAW ALONG THE HIGHWAY
Please see my Photo Album Titled KSA for many more photos from this amazing country.
I thank all of my friends for your concerns, comments and questions. Things are going well, but the teaching takes up much of my time when I am near an internet connection. The rest of my time I am at home without any internet at all. I am promised by the phone company, that I should have the internet installed at my home very soon.
The students here very smart for the most part. Some are too lazy to practice their English, so I am encouraging the better ones to join MyEc and begin practicing along with all of you. I think our English Club here will be the best thing they can do outside of class besides studying. Do you agree that this is the best place for them to learn on-line?
Would you like to see some of the good students come here and participate in MyEc? They will be able to tell you some things about their part of Saudi Arabia, and they should be able to learn some things from you, besides getting some good English practice. Later on, I will write a blog post about my "Night Job".
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DEAR TEACHER BOB. WHAT A BEUTIFUL SONG. CONGRATULATIONS. THANK YOU TO HELP ME
TO LEARN SO MANY THINGS OF YOUR COUNTRY. I SPEAK SPANISH AND I'M TRAING TO SPEAK ENGLISH.
hi bob,
congrat for your new job.
i am understand if people of there have matter with learning english because the english isnot first languange in there but after u come there, its will be change.
you make different, add color, so look interesting !.
i ever problem to understand something to other, tired, hot, become angry huft..but after i can make their know my transfer knowledge its will be unlimited satisfaction
kept spirit
jhn
Hi Bob, congratulations for your new job, you´ve choiced one of the most important professions, I´m sure you´ll do an excellent work. I want to share a quote by Antoine de Saint Exupery, maybe you´ve heard it before: "If you want to build a ship, don´t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea". To myself this is a good description for the teaching job.
I hope see you again, good luck in your new life, and enjoy your new language...
Gerardo Gordillo
Hey Bob,
Thanks so much for finding time to post this update! It's great to hear that you are settling in to your new home and routine. Thank you for inviting your new students to join MyEC. I can't wait to hear more about Saudi Arabia once you get your Internet sorted out. It must be an interesting experience to be without Internet access, though. Have you caught up on your reading? That is what I would do. Do you they use Facebook there? If they are intimidated to join MyEC they could join EC on FB page first. Perhaps it will encourage them to create their own pages and start blogging!
Keep in touch!
Tara
Happy to see you here, again.))
(Xkalibur, previously)
Very glad you've settled in. Did you know we missed you so much during your absence? It can be a challenge to teach in a strange country far from yours. Can you share some challenges you faced when you was trying to settle in? Lack of an Internet connection might have been one. Hope you have the Internet installed soon.
You bet your students will be welcome here on MyEC, where they can improve their English and make friends.
I'm looking forward to your next blog post.
Take care,
Expector
Hi sir,
I'm very much glad to see you here at MyEC blogs after a long time. I pray that phone company people install internet at your home very soon! ^_^
I don't know whether this site is the best place for your new students or not, because it depends upon people how much they like it or not. Some may find it extremely useful some may not. However they must join it, then they would be able to decided whether they should stay here or not.
I've seen your KSA album and it's wonderful, thank a lot for sharing all those photo.