Before moving to China, I got an email from Raymond, NCIC-Immersion School's IT Coordinator, who needed all the new teachers to make a video introducing themselves for the upcoming family day event. Previously, when I thought of an IT guy, I envisioned a harmless old man, so who cares what my video looks like, right? Dad and I did our best to put together a video of me nervously talking too much about myself, but for some reason, we COULD NOT cut it down to the relevant 30 seconds. So there I was sending a 3-minute video of me introducing myself and also fixing my hair and saying things like, "Was that ok?" and "Ugh I'm so awkward!" [Old man] Raymond, whom I later found out was in fact not an old man but a very handsome fellow, found it hilarious and showed it to the entire office staff. And so began our funny little connection. A Chinese guy and an American gal-- who woulda thunk it? Certainly not us. We lived in the ambiguous "Does s/he like me? Could this work? What is happening?" stage for a few months before entering into a relationship in February of 2017. The rest is history I guess, and we couldn't be more glad.