Thomas, 24
Hong Kong National &
British Citizen
Water Testing Scientist
Kristen, 25
American
Visitor Services Assistant
Current location - Edinburgh, UK
Thomas went to university in Edinburgh
and in my third year of university I decided to study abroad there. We met when
he fixed my computer a few days into
the semester and shortly after we started
dating. We were married on October 12,
2013.
We never had an issue making our bicultural relationship work until I went back to
America and he returned to Hong Kong
for the summer. The distance was hard
and if it wasn’t for Skype, I don’t think our
relationship would have lasted. It was a 12
hour time difference between our locations but we talked every day and sent
cards to each other filled to the brim with
cheesy love stuff.
I moved back to the UK for my masters
degree and it was amazing to finally be in
the same time zone, even if we were still 2
hours away by train.
We both come from diverse backgrounds
so culturally, we are quite similar. However, with our wedding we noticed more
differences because of cultural customs
from the US, China