A woman's high school teacher played matchmaker and set her up with her brother-in-law while she was travelling Costa Rica. <br /><br />Ellie Gervais, 25, decided she wanted to travel and booked to go to Costa Rica in September 2021.<br /><br />Just weeks before she was due to go, she bumped into her old humanities teacher, Jessica, 40, at the supermarket.<br /><br />Jessica told her to meet up with her husband Jona’s brother, Pablo, 26, a surf instructor. <br /><br />Jessica - who met Jona, 39, a woodworker, while she was travelling in Costa Rica 20 years ago - told Ellie “I bet you’ll get along with Pablo” – and sent her number to him to get in touch.<br /><br />Two weeks after arriving in Costa Rica, Ellie received a text from Pablo asking if she wanted to “hang out” in October 2021.<br /><br />Ellie accepted and the pair spent the day surfing and exploring the beach - hitting it off.<br /><br />The pair became a couple, have been inseparable ever since and are thankful to Jessica for connecting them.<br /><br />Ellie, an intuitive eating councillor, originally from Durango, Colorado, US, said: “I ran into my high school teacher at the grocery store and told her I was going to Costa Rica.<br /><br />“I remembered she had spent some time out there and met her husband there.<br /><br />“She said ‘I have a brother-in-law who is around your age, I bet you’d get along’.<br /><br />“A few weeks after getting there, Pablo text me and said ‘if you want to hang out I can show you around?’<br /><br />“He picked me up on a motorcycle.<br /><br />“He took his helmet off and I thought he as the most beautiful man I had ever seen in my life. He had this sparkle in his eyes.<br /><br />“Ever since then we’ve been together.”<br /><br />Pablo, from Nicoya, Costa Rica, said: “I was in love with her after the first day.<br /><br />“I knew she was my soulmate.<br /><br />“I’m very grateful to Jessica.<br /><br />“We can be together for the rest of our lives.”<br /><br />Ellie added: “It turned out the place I had rented was the town over from where Jessica had met her husband 15 years ago.”<br /><br />Jessica posted Ellie’s number in her family group chat - to tell them she knew a student travelling over.<br /><br />Ellie flew out to Costa Rica in October 2021 but didn’t hear from Pablo until two weeks later.<br /><br />Pablo said: “Jessica gave me the number but I forgot to call. Then a few weeks later I picked up the phone and saw the messages.”<br /><br />The couple arranged to meet and went surfing together at a nearby beach, and ending up spending the whole day together.
