Pollito and Reina are back online to recount new adventures!
It has been quite a while since the last posting...about 2 years perhaps? I stopped blogging because our adventures in the US didn't seem quite so exciting as the adventures we had abroad, but maybe I just got lazy.
Since Pollito arrived in the US, life has been a long roller coaster of emotions and events that has finally led us to where we are now : Pennsylvania.
To recap ever so quickly:
-Everyone is excited and anxious and Pollo arrived in the US at the end of Sept. 2012.
-We were shocked when his Green Card arrived in October. We thanked our lucky stars we filed for the visa the way we did.
-We were hopeful that a program called Upwardly Global would help him a little more with getting his foot in the door job wise and although he learned some things about jobs in the US, nothing from the program really panned out.
-After some stress and lots of planning, we had our church wedding and reception on our first anniversary in Oakland surrounded by friends and family from all over.
-Pollo took lots of English classes with Berlitz Languages that helped him with confidence and greatly improved his English.
-Over the course of 18 months, Pollo applied to dozens of jobs and made it to the last round of three different interviews, but to no avail. It was frustrating trying to figure out what was keeping him from getting an offer.
-Finally, after a trip to Peru in February of 2014, Pollo went through one final job interview process...AND GOT THE JOB! The position is an Account Manager Position with a major telecom company. The only downside is that the job is in Pennsylvania far away from the warm California sun and all the friends and family on the Best (sorry, west) Coast.
-Almost two years to the day that I moved back to the US, we took a leap of faith and moved cross country to the East Coast.
Our next adventures will chronicle our sudden move across country, the assumption of many truly adult responsibilities, and our East Coast endeavors.
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