Jobs and Family - some of the most important things in life, and our lives are full of both at the moment!
A few of you have enquired after my new job at the press company. It focuses mainly on photojournalism, so I learn a bit about photoshop, photography and world news every day! Photographers, newspapers or agencies from all over the world send in their pictures every day, and we resize, caption and organize them all, putting them up on the website and sending them directly to clients. Most of the pictures are either News, Entertainment, or Sports. I know way too much about the Mexican soccer league after captioning hundreds of their pictures! I also get to caption pictures from the Cannes film festival, the Tennis Pro or Formula One in Monaco. I learned all about the Danish Royalty while looking them up online so I could correctly tag them in some pictures.
Anyways, it's a bit monotonous and tedious, but for now I'm glad to be done working at the pool and am hoping that this is a stepping stone to something even better :)
Everyone I work with is great, and one of the best parts is the location - a five minute walk from our house!
Jordi is working hard at the moment helping his brother and partner build their second climbing gym, this one in Temecula. He also put an ad in the local newspaper and has already received callbacks! So far, so good for Sacher General Contracting :)
On the family side of things:
My oldest sister Andrea and her husband Scott came back to California from Cambodia for a summer long "furlough" in which they will be visiting all the churches that support them, as well as catching up and connecting with friends and family. It is the nicest thing in the world to have them home, and I love being able to call and text my sister at my convenience! When they go back to Cambodia, they will be living in a remote and rural area, learning how to plant rice, immersing themselves in the language and culture - I doubt I will be able to text her at that time...
Soon after the Swards came back, my little sister Stephanie graduated from LeTourneau University in east Texas. She is now a certified pilot and has a bachelors degree - wow, how am I related to that?? She is so cute and impressive with all her mechanical and aeronautical knowledge! And I am so excited that she is now back living in California! Flight to Catalina, anyone?
My mom wanted to take advantage of having us girls all home at the same time, and took us all to Palm Springs this last weekend. It was so much fun catching up on life, shopping, lounging by the pool, and going for bike rides. On the way home, we stopped in downtown Palm Springs to walk around and get lunch. I always forget how much fun it is to hang out with so many sisters - we're so alike! And what a great Mom for organizing it all! :)
This last weekend our brother came home as well! Aaron hasn't been back from Australia in nearly three years! It was so nice to see him, and he got to spend the night with Jordi and I in San Clemente before we took him to the airport (he flew to San Francisco to meet up with Melissa and her family).
Anyways, we get to see more of all of them next week when we all go on a family vacation/reunion to Cayucos. Can't Wait!!!
