My name is Danny Kofke and I met my wife through a chance encounter.
I was an elementary education major and, during my last semester, was assigned to student teach at a school down the road from my house. A week before school started, I got a call from my college saying the teacher I was assigned to teach with was no longer at that school so I was assigned to teach at a completely different school with another teacher.
At this new assigned school, I met my wife-to-be, Tracy. She was a first grade teacher there and we fell in love pretty quickly and wed less than one year later.
It has been ten years since we met through this chance encounter and I often think how different my life would be if the teacher I was originally assigned to had not transferred.
Tracy and I have had a wonderful 10 years together. We have lived and taught in Europe, have 2 beautiful daughters and basically have great lives because of someone else’s decision. I feel that we were met to be together – she is my soulmate – and am so fortunate to have met her!
