I'm...going to taiwan?

When I graduated in December 2024, I specifically graduated early so i could get a full time job sooner, to save up for moving out of the country. I had applied to the Fulbright English Teaching program in Taiwan. I heard that Taiwan has the most spots, plus I can speak a bit of Mandarin. Why not? In early February 2025, I got the results. Rejected. I cried like a damn baby. I texted my mom and she came down to my room, which she never does. She knows how boundaries work with adult children. But this time, she just walked in and hugged me. She knew I wanted it so bad. My fixation on Taiwan went away for a while. I switched from working part time at a library to working full time at a university. I was (am) making good money for a lowly liberal arts grad. I paid off all my high interest debt in 2 months. I thought that maybe i should do what's safe and stay put. I started apartment hunting locally to begin my next phase of adulthood. Then I met HL from Wuhan. She was on exchange as an…