We met at Boston University in none other than Chinese language class. How we had ended up in the same class is still a mystery, but fate is funny like that. What started off a mystery, turned into a few tutoring sessions, then a movie, then some dancing and the rest is history.

Our story may have started in Boston, but our journey together has taken us across the world where we spent four years in Shanghai, China and then two years in Barcelona, Spain before circling back to Boston in 2016. Our adventures abroad have consisted of many "firsts"- our first apartment together, first vacation, first jobs, first karaoke and bar top dancing- you name it! Through our adventures, we also discovered many things about ourselves, such as how Stefan has a strange obsession with maps, while on the other hand Annie has next to zero sense of direction. Or how Stefan can eat 40 dumplings in one sitting and ironically Annie can make them just fast enough to feed him. Together, we have discovered that we make a great team, effectively complementing each other in the most important of ways.

After living in Barcelona for two years, we returned to Spain for the first time to attend our friends' wedding. While there, Stefan suggested we take a trip down memory lane and visit our old neighborhood. We had just arrived at the entryway of our old apartment, when I looked behind me and was shocked to see we had been followed by our four good friends, each with their phones out filming. In that moment, realization dawned on me as I turned around to see Stefan get down on one knee. With tears of joy already streaming down my face, I could hardly hear a word Stefan was saying, barely catching my breath to say "YES!".