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'I'd come back to SA'
08/01/2007 13:06 - (SA)
Alet Rademeyer, Beeld
Johannesburg - Every time he came back for a holiday to SA, Dr Simon Geldenhuys from Centurion, realises what a heavy price he paid for working overseas.
"If I could get a job at home, I'd be on the first plane back. Crime or no crime!"
Geldenhuys packed his bags in 2003 and left behind his family to work in the United Arab Emirates after posting 514 job applications and saw no future in SA.
Last week, he went back to Manama in Bahrain where he is currently the principal of the Al Noor International School.
He has also worked in Dubai, Saudi Arabia and in Jordan.
He said he was happy at Al Noor though, which was one of the biggest schools in the capital of Bahrain.
Although it was not always plain sailing to work on foreign soil, Geldenhuys said he thought South Africans were successful overseas because they were adaptable. He added they were still in demand.
One of the things he missed the most though, was not being able to talk Afrikaans at work.
At least he was able to talk Afrikaans at a church group where there were South Africans.
- Beeld
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