Police me

Vision test

I saw the superintendent of police yesterday for what was little more than a meeting conducted out of formality.  I sat in front of his desk and he asked me what state I was from.  Florida, I said. It’s a hot place, much like here.  Is that near Canada, he asked.  No, Canada is in the north, Florida is far south.  Oh, so not near Canada, he said, and switched gears, asking me about my work.  I’m an English teacher at a women’s college in Dubai.  It’s a government school.  All my students are Emirati, I explained.  Those women are all illiterate and their husbands prevent them from getting educated, he observed.  Well, they’re in college, so they completed primary and secondary school to get there, so they’re not really illiterate.  And in fact in the Emirates today females are now better educated than males.  He asked what I was doing at the hospital, and concluded by indicating the meeting was over and I could go.

There has been no demand for English lessons since we completed our second lesson two days ago.  My feeling is the girls don’t really care and were being polite, or were simply curious about me.  Or perhaps my lessons simply aren’t interesting. No one has since approached me to ask if we are having class in the evening.

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