I have not heard back from the Middle East Broadcasting Network about the job yet, but I have gone on a few more interviews. Yesterday was a particularly strange one...

The job was shooting school yearbook portraits and the like. At first the interview was fairly normal, just me and three managers. After the usual barrage of questions, they drew an overhead diagram of a photo-studio and asked me to draw how I would set up various "looks". Then it got weird. During a short break in the interview, they asked me to sing children's songs. I thought they were kidding, but it soon became clear that they weren't. I sang "row, row, row your boat", but messed up the lyrics. They corrected me and I sang it again. Then it was picture time. The three managers lined up in front of a studio background and acted like elementary school children, while I tried to pose and photograph them. One made a huge fake smile, one sat backwards from the camera and one only smiled for a brief instant at a time. Then it was my turn to be photographed. Needless to say, I was too embarrassed to act like a child.