So yesterday, in class, I was talking about resumes and CVs and was using a timeline to illustrate my point. The name I gave to the mysterious individual now working as a sales director at some company in LA? Marwan Shami.

The students laughed (presumably because I didn’t pick a more American name like Billy Bob or Cletus) and asked who Marwan Shami was. I told them to skip it because they should really be asking themselves who taught the family pooch how to write letters.