I’m in Kaohsiung City in the Southern most point of Taiwan. It’s the second largest city of Taiwan. And I am working as a language arts teacher at an international school, and I teach seventh and eighth graders.

Are you doing this because you just hated working at WPSU?

[Laughs] Well, I tell people here that I really loved my job so much at WPSU that when I quit my job, I cried. And I actually had to take the morning off to get my emotions in line before quitting because it was so hard. I really loved working at WPSU, and honestly sometimes when I try to explain to people the whole process of why we decided to leave, it sometimes doesn't even make sense to me. That said, we feel like it was the right decision.

Yeah, so I think we had a similar story to a lot of people who end up living in State College. We only ever planned to live there for two years. We thought we’d move to State College, get our master’s degree, and then actually move overseas. And we ended up living in the State College for almost seven years. My husband and I both really loved our jobs, we had a lot of friends, we had this really adorable house within walking distance to downtown. It was a really good life.

We also, if I’m going to be really honest, sometimes we felt like we were in a rat race. And that's kind of funny to say considering I worked in public radio at a job I really believed in. But it really did feel like, you know, it was always like, well, especially, you know, for both my husband and I. Well, should we be looking at other career opportunities? Do we need to make more money to pay the bills? Do we need to add more daycare hours? And it just seemed like so much of our life was focused on, you know, do we need to make more money and do we need to be more strategic in our careers. And I just kind of had this vision of like 20, 30, 40 more years of that. And it occurred to us like we don’t really have to do that. I mean, we have a choice.

But the other thing, though, is that I don't think many people my age and younger see putting down roots the same way. I have friends from all over the world. And that’s okay and that’s normal for me. So even when we said goodbye to our friends in State College, nobody was really surprised and nobody acted like, oh, well, I guess we’re not going to be friends anymore. You know, we’re like, okay, we’ll keep in touch via Skype. We’ll Facetime each other, we'll see each other on Facebook, and we’ll hang out next time you visit. I think that honestly this generation we kind of have the more open mind about what home is and what it means to put down your roots. So for me, you know, I would love to end up back in State College someday. It may be that I’m only over there to visit, but I’m sure going to visit every time I’m back in the United States because it is home. Even if I may not live there again.