SUMMER 2011

Since both of our graduations, our lives have been in limbo. Jacob was offered a job with Eleutheria to work as a Speech Language Pathology Assistant. In addition, Kimarie was offered a job with the same contract company as a school counselor. We waited a while to hear more details. Finally in July we were supposed to sign our contracts when a wrench got stuck in our plans. It turns out the school that Eleutheria is contracting with for Kimarie's position is reneging their original position and saying it is on an as needed basis. Eleutheria still wants to hire Kimarie but since they cannot guarantee any hours they cannot give her benefits, but they did offer a higher hourly wage. On July 13th Jacob and Kimarie met the owners of Eleutheria at Claimjumper. Jacob signed his contract, but Kimarie is taking time to decide. In the meantime she has been applying for other jobs, but mainly is being offered jobs for secondary math again-not really her favorite. If she decides to take the position with Eleutheria then she will continue substitute teaching and tutoring while she waits to get more hours with Eleutheria. We were going to move somewhere closer to the West Valley since that is where our jobs would be, but ever since we found the wrench in our plans we have not felt right about it yet--especially since it costs a lot of money to move and we currently do not have much of any income during the summer. In order to stay on campus Kimarie will be taking a class or classes at least for a semester until we can get back on our feet and figure out if moving is the right decision. She is currently trying to decide what classes interest her, but it also depends on financial aid. She is thinking about Sociology of Marriage and Family, Accounting, Brief Calculus, Orchestra, or maybe a typing class. We will try to keep everyone posted.