By Dara Denney, The Traveller’s Cookbook During university I used to daydream about teaching English abroad. I was an English major with few other job prospects (or ideas), but I knew I wanted to travel the world. So teaching abroad seemed like the perfect solution; I would get to travel (and live) abroad AND make money. Before I even graduated I thought a lot about where I would go. Maybe to China for the food; or Japan for the culture. Or maybe even exotic Brazil…or Thailand. I have always wanted to live near the beach. But I never thought about Egypt. Why? I graduated university at the end of 2013, and even though I was always fascinated by Egyptian Pharaonic culture, I was scared off by reports of instability and violence. Egypt was still trying to regain balance from the 2011 Revolution, and any headlines seemed bleak at best. At the beginning of 2015, I finally did make my way to Egypt, for another job NOT teaching English. I was working for a consulting firm specializing in research in South Sudan and was to spend only six months in Cairo….
