Crystal Chilcott is all about adventure and seeing the world.

The 2011 Butler graduate is doing both while working as an ice skating instructor in Reykjavik, Iceland.

“I got the job very unexpectedly and randomly,” Chilcott said in an email interview. “This November, I was just on my computer and whimsically Googled ‘skating coach in Iceland.’ I found an ad that was looking for a coach to start in July.

“Even though it was way past the deadline, I e-mailed them asking if they still needed a coach. I didn’t hear back for a month ... when they e-mailed asking for a resume. I wrote up a quick resume and by the next morning, they asked for a Skype interview that same day.

“Fifteen minutes later, I had an e-mail from them saying they would love to have me in Iceland and if I could move there by Jan. 11. So I called my parents and said, ‘I just got a job in Iceland,’” she added.

So the whirlwind move began.

Chilcott had a month’s notice. Her mother flew to Colorado Dec. 27— Chilcott graduated from the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs Dec. 15 — and brought her car back to Butler.

“We had to get a lot of things in order in a very short time,” Shirley Chilcott said. “But this is what Crystal wanted to do. She loves to experience other parts of the world.”

While studying abroad in London last year, Chilcott visited 18 countries.

Chilcott is not allowed to have a car in Iceland until she’s been there six months, She is living in Grafarvogur, a suburb of Reykjavik.

“I use the bus and walk, so it isn’t too much of a problem,” she said. “It is really icy here ... I wouldn’t want to drive in it, anyway.”

Chilcott moved to Colorado Springs to train at the World Arena Ice Hall when she was 17. She completed her senior year at Butler by long distance through “some great teachers who were willing to work with me.”

Chilcott trained with Olympians Rachael Flatt, Paul Bonafacio Parkinson, Jason Brown, Patrick Chan, Liam Firus and national champions Max Aaron and Adam Rippon. She competed collegiately, winning the junior ladies pewter medal (fourth place) at the 2013 U.S. Collegiate National Championships in Green Bay, Wisc.

Now she is teaching skating in a country that has never sent a skater to the Olympics. Chilcott is working with youths ages 6 to 18.

“Skating here is divided by age and level,” Chilcott said. ‘A is the top tier, B is the middle, C is the lowest. I have 8C, 10C, 12C and Novice C. I am the assistant coach with the A and B skaters.”

While 99 percent of Icelanders also speak English, Chilcott is attending Icelandic language classes four mornings a week.

She described Iceland as “isolated,” saying the language hasn’t evolved since it was settled in the 800s.

“It was hard to adjust to short hours of daylight,” Chilcott said of Iceland. “When I first got here, the sun wouldn’t rise until 11:42 a.m. ... I was practically nocturnal for a few weeks, staying up until 5 a.m. and waking up at noon.”

Chilcott’s contract runs through the end of May. She said she hopes to renew it around the end of April.

“Iceland only has one senior level skater and not a lot of international competitors,” she said. “I would just love to give the skaters here the technique and training methods I learned in Colorado.

“I don’t train anymore, but I still skate some and the possibility of competting for Iceland is still in the back of my mind. I feel like I have a lot of unfinished business with my own skating that I think about all the time.”

She has other unfinished business as well. Chilcott has a degree in English literature, a minor in creative writing and is working on a novel during her free time. She has a travel blog that is now read by people in 38 countries.

How long Chilcott remains a skating coach in Iceland remains a mystery — even to herself.

“I want to see the world, experience other cultures and seek adventure,” she said. “I like unfamiliarity. As soon as I get comfortable in a place, I feel like it is time to go somewhere else and keep experiencing new things.”