September 27, 2018
I worked at Raytheon.  I did well there, I worked hard and tried to do my best.  Steve and I had the opportunity now to move to Germany for 1 to 2 years for his job.  Raytheon granted me a Leave of Absence for that period of time.  They didn't have to do it but they did and I am grateful for that.  This meant that I could get my current job back when we returned from Germany.  I was given a great little party from the department that I worked for at the time with a catered lunch and a big cake.  This was a much bigger party than I had when I actually left the company 2 and half years after this to move to Idaho for good to take care of Jean, Steve's mother.

We loaned my while Toyota Sienna mini-van to Aimilee in Idaho and loaned Steve's blue Toyota Tacoma truck to Greg in Temecula for the time we would be in Germany.  We put most of our stuff into a storage unit in Temecula.  We took a couple of duffel bags and suitcases on the plane with us and had some items sent over on a cargo ship for the apartment.  We thought it would take 6 weeks for our things to arrive, it took about 3 months.  So we lived out of our suitcases for about 3 months.


October 10, 2012

Steve and I have moved to Germany.  We moved to Vogelstang, a village outside of Mannheim.  Steve's job moved us here so Steve could train the German employees on the software that is now part of their company, now called Rocket Software.  It used be be called Trubiquity.  The work assignment is for 2 years.  I had planned on working in the CAD industry but it turns out that I did not find a job after almost a year so I gave up on that.  I would need to know German in a technical way and I would also need to be sponsored by a company.  Steve's company sponsored him.  I did have some luck with interviews but when the prospective company found our that I wasn't sponsored, they told me it would not be possible to hire me.  So I  for the first time in my life was a non working (in industry) woman.  I loved it.

I wanted to keep my photos and a record of our experiences somehow and decided to create a blog of our time in Germany.  This book is more or less the same as the blog.  There is probably more in the blog than in the printed version of this bit of my life history.