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Chinese Egypt-lover looking to live to and work in Cairo, Egypt
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Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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Region: (Cairo, Alex, or Luxo)
Description: Salaam!
I live in Beijing, China as well as in Vancouver, Canada. I went to Egypt as a tourist in 2006 and fell in love deelply with the country and its people--they loved me, called me Habibi, offered me help, and I loved them back. I loved the way they kept being happy, funny and flirty no matter what. Since then I have always dreamed about going back there to live and work...maybe for a lifetime.
I'm bilingual in English and Mandarin Chinese, have an MA in English Literature, a diploma in Film Production from Vancouver Film School and a BA in Comparative Linguistics. I don't speak Arabic, just know a few words but I can sing a lot of Egyptian and Lebanese songs in Arabic.
For the past 10 years I have worked in School Education, Retail, Marketing and Sales, Customer Service, Office Management, Business Management and the Entertainment Industry. I have great qualifications and internationally recognized credentials and have worked in China, Canada and USA.
If you know anyone who might be interested in hiring me, please email me! I realize it may be years before I can live in my dream country--Egypt permanently, but still, I know I must prepare myself. There are deep reasons I am called to go there, to live there, to read about it each day.
For Alah's sake, please be sincere and serious. If you are just curious about me and just want to chat over the email, that's also fine; just let me know.
Thanks for reading my message.
Below is a poem I wrote about my Egypt trip. I'd love to share it with all my Habibis in Egypt--
A Journey to Egypt
'Man fears time,
and time pyramids...'
In a few hours I will be flying to Luxor, Egypt,
To start my grand tour down the Nile by 'Karnak,'
Years after Poirot and Bette Davis,
For a dream that has haunted me for thousands of nights,
Of tracing the footprint of those greatest Pharaohs
From Menes, to Khufu, to Rameses II, to Hatshepsut...
And Tutankhamen, who died young but left a golden mask,
As well as the broken heart of the loving Ankhesenamen,
And to Cleopatra, who seduced Caesar and Antony, even though
She did not possess Elizabeth Taylor's beauty.
The dawn of great civilizations first illuminated the East,
From China, who has the longest continuous surviving ancient civilization,
To ancient India, who once gave the world a great savior at human's darkest time -- Sakyamuni,
And ancient Babylon, leaving us myth-surrounded legends around Mesopotamia,
And ancient Egypt, where Pharaohs co-existed with gods in that prehistoric era.
Though I'm not a learned Egyptologist like Howard Carter or Champollion,
My love and passion for the land of Egypt is too profound to fathom,
And yet too shadowy to feel real as I've never been there,
But tomorrow afternoon I will be...in Thebes, now called Luxor by the Arabs,
Then all the way from Upper Egypt to Cairo and Alexandria.
When I see pictures of pyramids and of ancient Egyptian temples,
And when I see a papyrus painting with those hieroglyphic characters in cartouche,
I can't keep from crying for being small and mortal,
And can't stop being obsessed with death, afterlife, reincarnation and eternity.
Death has always been the theme of my thoughts,
As the gateway to a new life, a mystic terminal of deeds and karma.
I look forward to my rebirth in Egypt, during my 10 days there...
01/30/2006
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