It was the summer of 1998. I was studying in Canada and I was very low on money. My advisor was taking the summer off so I could not be his research or teaching assistant. I was wondering what I could do? I used my skill of teaching to offer a course on cross-cultural psychology to undergraduate students. Until that summer this course had never been offered at my university. I got permission to teach the course from the department. Not only did I make enough money to tide over the summer. I had an exciting summer learning, developing, and teaching the course. I also got so interested in the topic that some of that work became the basis of my doctoral work.