and it happened just like that....

Yeoksamdong, Gangnamgu, Seoul, Korea! How didi I end up here? Well it is true, it's a crazy adventure this life. If You asked me a year ago I would not have believed I would be here, in this massive city, teaching middle school kids at a public school. But well, I guess it's a good example of how quickly life can change. Josh and I were doomed- we had to fall in love, despite the fact that actually both of us were happy being single and content on remaining that way. But we just couldn't help it; our hearth had other plans and we fell so in love! Last summer, the summer of 2010, was spent in such a fun way! Going to the river, the Sandy or the Washougal or Sauvie Island, also we went on lots of bike rides and long walks, so in love, and having so much to talk about. We went out to awesome dinners all the time and spent many evenings drinking Hamms at Pinstripes on SE 11th. The world was our world, we did anything possible to spend time together despite our opposite schedules. We both love Portland, but towards the end of summer we both had an annoyance about the place. Sometimes a city can be too small. My job was making me crazy- I had been working at FOTM for  over three years and that place, awesome as it is, also has so it's fair share of issues, anyway... my job was getting old.  Josh and I both were rather bored and burned out from our social scene, it was demanding energy of us that we didn't care about. Lots of petty people; often gossip and often drugs.  Again- people that can be cool, but a scene that was unhealthy and overall taxing. So one day, very randomly, we talked about planning a trip to Seoul, Korea, to visit Nathan, and in that one conversation, not a long on at all- we decided that it would be a cool opportunity to come here for a year and teach, make a ton of money, travel, spend time with Nathan and his new wife, Irina (and now they are going to have a baby!), and at the same time we can easily remove ourselves from the negativity in Portland. What a cool opportunity! So we just did it- and never looked back. From that one afternoon conversation things began to fall in to place. We bought the one way tickets for crazy cheap, because at that time tensions between North and South Korea were at an all time high. In fact people were calling us crazy! And it was a little crazy, and I'll admit there were some moments of nervousness about the war, but they never opened any door for doubt about our decision. As the weeks and months chipped away very quickly we kept organizing things appropriate to the timing, we put our things in storage, sold our cars, spent a lot of time with my family and our friends, eventually had our crazy going away parties and it all happened so fast! We were waiting outside our cute apartment on 18th and Clinton, in the deep dark of a cold winter morning, before any traces of dawn were on the horizon, expecting our Radio Cab, and away we went! To the airport and whisked away across to great Pacific Ocean on a long, long, long flight to arrive in Seoul with no job, no house, no clue about anything! But we had eachother, and some good ideas, and luckily my brother- to help us out for a short bit while we got our jobs and our apartment. And here we are! More than four months into our new life in Asia. We are full blown teachers! Living in one of the biggest, most densely populated cities in the world, and it happened just like that....