The Beginning

So unbeknownst to many of you, Sharma and I have wanted to live abroad for some time. Not sure where we wanted to go, but just knew that we wanted to live outside of the US. We figured that we would be writing this chapter after our kids had all graduated and we would just be two fun loving people roaming the globe. Our story begins in March 2009...no actually, much earlier than that, back when we were living in Everett, WA. I am a believer that certain doors are opened to give us opportunities, however, it is up to us to walk throught those doors and take those opportunities. While living in Everett we decided that it was time to move, we toyed with the idea of Kentucky, but ultimately decided on Charlotte, NC. We moved into our new church and met many wonderful people. One particular person that we met was on a journey of her own. She just moved into our church as well because she was marrying a man that we had become friends with. She was a teacher for the elementary school on Ramstein AFB located in Landstuhl, Germany. As luck would have it we struck up a friendship with her and we were very intrigued with her story. We decided to do dinner with her and her new husband. At dinner we asked her all sorts of questions about Germany, the job there, life, travel, the perks for working for the government and the list went on and on. We were very intrigued with everything she was telling us and decided that we needed to apply immediately. We were so excited and could hardly contain ourselves at the thought of this happening. So on a dark, cool night in March of 2009, we applied for a physical therapy job in Germany. I expected to hear from them the next day.....I didn't....