Goodbye Yemen!

As of July 28, 2009,we are no longer in Yemen!  Its bittersweet for us as we will miss our home of almost six years, but happy that our whole family is finally back together after 4 years, masha Allah.
So obviously I won’t be providing “real time” updates as one visitor put it.   
Insha Allah, [...]

Job Listing – Full Time Teachers of English

YALI (language institute) has vacancies for full time English teachers:
Masters or Bachelors degree in an English field (ESOL, English education, Linguistics, English literature)
Native speaker or 600 or above on TOEFL
3-5 years experience in ESL teaching
Preferred Qualification: TESOL, CELTA, DELTA
Recent ESL teaching experience, training, and professional development
for immediate consideration
Send resume with degrees, teaching experience and 3 [...]

Dubaab

I’m not really sure how to spell this in Arabic so my transliteration could be off.
Dubaabs are mini vans which I guess would be the equivalent (or closest thing to) a bus service.
The route is marked on the back of the van in green and white. (and the front too I think)
 
You can board [...]

Site Maintenance on TJ Yemen

I’m doing a little clean up at TJ Yemen, trying to make things more concise (insha Allah) and for those on email subscription, you may get inundated with many daily posts for the next week or so (or how ever long it may take). I am working on converting the pages to posts so that information is [...]

Corruption in Yemen

I’ve read that Arab countries have some of the worst rates of corruption in the world. And of course, Yemen is right up in there.
We were in the Tahreer area the other day and drove past a sign for SNACC – supreme national authority for the combatting of corruption…………..
 Bribes (aka baksheesh) are common here.  Case [...]

How to Change a Cooking Gas Tank

 
 
You’ve been in Yemen about a month or so, getting situated and used to your new environment when THE day arrives—the first time your gas tank runs out.

Now, if you are fortunate (like say, a married woman), you can have your spouse change it for you, but inevitably that OTHER day will come…..the day your [...]

The Price of……gasoline

Our taxi driver the other day stopped for gas and I took note of the prices…
 
60 riyals per liter, which comes out to $1.13 per gallon………..
 
Also, my son reminded me the other day that when we first got here (5 years ago), cooking tanks could be found  (refills) for 200 riyals ($1 ), now, the [...]

Contacting TJ Yemen

You can now send questions to TJ Yemen via email if you do not want them posted to the blog. 
Contact TJ Yemen via email
 
If you do not mind your comments and questions being posted to the blog so that the responses can be shared with others, then please continue to comment under the appropriate blog [...]

Re: Comments

If you have left a comment here recently. I am probably just now looking at it for the first time. Sincere apologies, it used to notify me by email when I got comments and doesn’t now. So, insha Allah, please give me some time to get to them and respond…………………..

TJ’s Mini English Arabic/English Dictionary

Thought I’d pull together a little help for those times when you need something and don’t know what the name of it is in Arabic. Its very small right now, but insha Allah, I’ll be adding to it as I can….. And its just the transliterated Arabic for now…………..
 
A
Airport – matar
B
Bank – “bank,” masraf
Blanket – [...]