We met at a teachers' Filipin@/x or an Ethnic Studies organization named PEP [ Pin@y Educational Partnerships]. There we worked in different barangays or groups of teachers placed in middle and high school respectively [ Andrew at Denman and Des at Balboa]. We didn't start talking romantically until a year after we had both left PEP and were entering different phases in life. Andrew had just been accepted to a teacher program in Barcelona and since Des did a lot of traveling, Andrew asked Des out for dinner [ smooth move ;D] to ask advice for going abroad. That first meeting aka date about traveling led to going on more and more dates and as many say, " The rest is history!"