Blog as Eventual Autobiography

Earlier this week, I was saying here how we've been in Canada approaching a decade. As I've got this growing online reservoir of recollections, people searching for data often stop by to ask questions. After a few more years of story-telling, I'll be nearer a complete autobiography; it just won't be in sequential order. Here's an email note I received out of the blue from a stranger this week:

Dennis,

I see you taught at TINS in Saudi Arabia too. I was there 12 years ago. Meanwhile I've been in Germany and am now back in Dhahran in KSA. I left the medical school at Arabian Gulf University on Bahrain after just 4 months. Terrible place. The worst ELT department I've ever encountered. That is apart from the students. They're mainly Saudi girls. Some the most gifted students I ever taught.

Anyway, over there I was living down the road from the BDF base near Riffa and heard that they run English courses. I'd be really grateful if you could let me know who I could contact there. I'd love to get back to Bahrain some time. I'm eagerly waiting for my exit/re-entry visa so I can go over for the weekend.