Meeting and Work update

Had a meeting today. Things were getting a little heated at first. It was just the teachers talking about things not getting done and then about 45 minutes into the meeting, Ramia, showed up. She is the lady who is in charge. Things started getting settled then. We are going to get internet in the next couple of days. They will be paying the installation fees and we will be paying the monthly bills. That is fine with me. I would like to have reliable internet. But I will believe that once I actually get it.

I also found out about mailing addresses. It took a little while to get that all sorted out. Well for her to understand me. I am going to run to the post office tomorrow and get the forms for P.O. Boxes. Apparently we can have up to 11 people per box. So the forms need to be filled out, with the peoples names and home addresses before we can actually get the boxes. So hopefully soon, I will have an address.

I also found out that I got hired. Yay me!! I don't know when I start. Ramia, told me to go to the Uni tomorrow and ask when I start. I told her to give me the number and I would call to find out, but I am not going to show up at the guy's office, who I may or may not have met and demand to know when I start. That is not my responsibility. They hired me, they can tell me when to start. Or I can call him to find out that info. It seems rude for me to show up, uninvited and ask those questions. So out of the 20 or so of us here, 5 have jobs, and 3 more got hired. Mark, some girl and myself are the ones that just got hired. The others, didn't. Most have interview and didn't get the job, so from what I understand, they will next be shipped off to Medina to interview and if they don't get hired there, of to Ryshia. Sucks to be them. They should have told us, before we came, that we didn't have jobs and that we would have to interview for them.

So things are looking up for me at least. Feel sorry for the people, who now have to pack up and move again. But hey, at least they get to see another city. Medina is not a place I would want to live. Jeddah is the most liberal city in Saudi, Medina is the second holiest city in Saudi and very conservative. It's the burial place of Mohammad. Which would be cool to see, but I think you need to be Muslim to go and see it. Plus I get to be next to the Red Sea and do some diving and beach type stuff.