 In the meantime, Teilhard earned a licentiate in literature in Caen in 1902.From 1905 to 1908, he taught physics and chemistry in Collège de la Sainte Famille in Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt.He wrote "[I]t is the dazzling of the East foreseen and drunk greedily ... in its lights, its vegetation, its fauna and its deserts."