My sister Eleni is now engaged (she got engaged while over here visiting) to an American Aussie by the name of Allen Blackwood. Most of you probably know him. His parents moved over here the same time we did. Allen's father is the pastor of the RP Church in Frankston.
My other sister Shannon along with her husband are expecting their first child sometime next August/September! I am very excited that our kids will have a cousin.
The last bit of God's timing was seen on Friday. I will start with this past Monday. On Monday Brandon had a job interview in Melbourne with a company called Westinghouse. On Wednesday they called him to set up a time for a medical checkup. Friday morning they called him to let him know he had the job if he wanted it. He said yes!
We are pretty amazed at how quickly this has all been worked out. The strangest, insert providence, thing is that this all came from an online job application. In our experience our jobs have always been found by who we know never through online job seeker sites. We really saw God's hand in arranging all of this and are so very thankful. There will only be two weeks of down time between Brandon's last paycheck from the old job and him starting with the new job. In that time I was given work on the iPod project which fills in that gap.
Here is a little more about Brandon's future job (this is copied from an e-mail we sent my dad)
"Westinghouse is part of the Invensys Rail Group. I know they are around 150 years old but I'm not sure about the history. I'll be an Electro-Mechanical Design Engineer in the Signal Group. The job is pretty varied in its duties. I will be involved in CAD design, support of current products and some project management. The things I'll be designing will be the LED signal housings, interlocking and point-layout designs. I'll be involved in turnkey projects where entire rail management systems are installed.
I'm excited for some change and to be back in a more structured environment, but I'll probably be complaining about acronyms and office bureaucracy within a month. In the interview they said they expect to double or triple their company size in the next few years due to Australia's need for upgrading all the public rail system. So it will be nice to be part of a company that isn't either in bankruptcy proceedings (Delphi) or always on the verge of collapse (my current/last job).
I am already sad about not working from home anymore. Its been a great blessing to be around the family for the past year. The extra 2+ hours for a commute are going to be difficult. Hopefully I can do stuff on the train that I would otherwise be doing at home, like bible study or Sunday school prep."
One more little bit about this job. They sometimes help pay for their employees to further their education. A big plus for us. During the interview Brandon told them about how we like to go back to the States every other year to visit family, usually for 5-6 weeks. They were very cool with the idea. They actually have a mandatory 2 week shut down over Christmas. So Lord willing we will get to come home for Thanksgiving and Christmas of 2009!
Gideon is screaming, I should go rescue him. Later.
Oh one last thing. A couple days ago we got Gid's US passport in the mail. Still need to get the Aussie one. Here is what his passport photo looks like.
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