Solutions?
A pretty busy week with a few different and fast turns.
As soon as P found out about her not-to-be at the job, she asked her old emplyer for eventual openings and luckily enough a half time position recently opened up. This will (hopefully) smooth things in all our applications for permanent residency again. J has searched for jobs and been on a couple of interviews. There is an interesting opportunity as a financial planner and I am looking into this commission based type of job. We did decide we will look and think about this opportunity and the fit in our lives over the week in San Diego! We do very much look forward to this "vacation" and to meet some friends from the college years!
This week we have ran a soccer camp together, but mainly our minds are on the nearby vacation!
More updates coming soon!
Hmmmmm..
First of all, thanks for all the gratulations. Yes, I feel old ;).
Anyway, the weather is absolutely fantastic and the skiing is still amazing.
Spring break is here and I just found out not so much coaching work will be given to me due to prior promises to other coaches. This is both sad, but also a fork in our lives, (P and her new employer didn't really work out, because of work permits and such). This leaves us in a position where we will discuss our future and where we will go from now!
Stay in Kelowna? P has asked her old employer for work, in order for our papers to be in order. J has begun looking for jobs in Kelowna.
Move within Canada? We might look into other opportunities in some bigger and more lively cities, such as Vancouver or Toronto.
Another option is to look into college jobs for J in the U.S, trying to coach at a good university and in return receive a Master.
We have also spoken loosely about coming back to Sweden, however this is not our priority at the moment. We both still like it too much here and there is so much more to see. J has at least back up applied for some Master programs in Sweden, having options have never killed anyone, right?
My birthday present was a snowmobile tour at Silverstar. Very exciting! And the birthday/engagement party was also a hit, we had 17 guests and served pastasallad with meatballs:). P spent nearly 5 hours the day before baking a rainbow cake, it was a complete success! It was somewhat emotional though, we had the party only hours after P received the news regarding her job situation...
Next week we will organize a soccer camp together and 2 weeks from now we are on our way to see San Diego! There P will get her Christmas present; Swimming with dolphins!
Engagement party coming up
On Friday, we will combine my birthday with an engagement party. We wil have about 15 guests and will serve Swedish meatballs and pasta.
The past week has been pretty busy. P started working again and I have been running around doing coaching clinics and organized a bunch of things.
The past week we had tryouts for the local club where I am the newly appointed head coach, and as soon as they were done, I ran a coaches' clinic. My long term goal is to raise the basic standard on the young players throguh teaching the coaches easy, fun and developing drills. It will not be easy, the tradition in Canada is towards hockey and soccer has long been a "recreational sport".
I have also been appointed as "Mr Futsal" and will try to build a solid and sustainable Futsal culture for a company in town. This together with the organization of a beach soccer torunament and coaching academies make me prety busy at the moment.
Anyway, P and I have talked a little back and forth regards our wedding. Of course one of the first questions is; Sweden or Canada.. We have discussed this back and forth and believe that we might have ot in Canada, due to the simple reason this might be the only way for all our friends to come here and visit and understand why we have fallen in love wiht the town and region.. So, you could probably begin to bookmark early April 2013... However, we are open for suggestions and nothing is set in stone as of now. Your input will be taken into account.
I said Yes!
Well of course I did, it was not a tough question. We had a superb weekend at Sparkling Hill and the proposal was just as icing on the cake, a very good icing :) Both of us have basically known since the beginning that this person is the one we want to spend the rest of our lives with, so I didn't need any time to think about the answer.
Naturally I started crying when J went down on one knee and I didn't even look at the ring before I said yes. Smart as he is, J had very appropriately bought a beautiful silver Swarovski-ring to propose with. He knows how picky and specific I am with things like these and didn't have the nerve to buy the wrong "real" ring. We are going to custom make our rings and have already been in contact with two different goldsmiths for pricing on our rings. The one I have been seing in my mind can be found there and only there - in my mind. I have tried to find anything like it in stores but haven't been even close. So custom it is!
Later
