Why students speaking Arabic don’t scare me
Before I landed in Saudi Arabia, I worried about teaching a bunch of students who don’t speak a language I understand. Would they say things about me? Would they ignore me as the teacher altogether…
Author: Marshall Jones Jr.
Disruption, like rain in the desert
It rained my first full day in Saudi Arabia. I didn’t see that coming. What shouldn’t have surprised me more but did was that after the rain, the streets piled up with water, like standing…
It didn’t get any easier
The first time, I didn’t even know what to expect. I knew it would be difficult, but I didn’t realize how hard it would be on everyone else. That surprise made it even harder on…