Amy in Asia

Last fall I started having cravings to visit Asia. They were generally subtle yet pungent enough that I started asking my Asiaphile friends about possibilities. One high school buddy did some checking and let me know that he'd found me an opportunity to teach English at the same preschool where he'd worked a few years before. Everything fell miraculously into place and before I knew it, I'd quit my internship in Salt Lake, put a plane ticket on my Visa bill, and climbed on a plane bound for Taipei. Even though my Mandarin vocabulary begins and ends with the anything you'll find on a Chinese restaurant menu, this jump into adventure feels so right. My cousin Annelise decided to jump in with me and we've already made enough memories to last a life time.