New beginnings

Tomorrow we will have lived in L.A. for four weeks. It's hard to believe that we are here. I still remember when Mike first started thinking about getting his MBA: we were living in Oxford then and he was working as a structural engineer but feeling like he was missing out on the "big picture". That was the first time that he was uncertain about the future and what he wanted to do with himself. He was having a quarter-life crisis.

When we moved back to Toronto in the fall of 2009, Mike landed a really great job in the corporate real estate department at a major bank. Over the next two years, he learned a lot about how the real estate industry worked and the part that he would like to play (which, he later decided, would involve a business degree).

So he began studying for the GMAT exam while still working full-time (looking back, I guess that was the first glimpse I had of my new life of not seeing my husband very much). Fast forward through the application process (and the waiting and waiting that came along with that), the huge excitement when he finally heard that he'd been accepted, our first trip out to L.A. in April to meet some of the faculty and the rest of the admitted students in his year, the summer months that we spent with our families in Taiwan and in Canada, and voilà, here we are, living in sunny California. Crazy.

Now that we are pretty well settled down, I thought I'd start this blog to share some of our experiences to help newcomers ease into the transition, both from relocating from one place to another and from "normal life" to life as the wife/husband/significant other of an MBA.