The Adventure Begins

I'm pretty sure everyone knows by now that Matt and I are moving to Florida.  I wanted to start this blog in order to keep in touch with all our friends and family who now stretch across the country.  We're both going to be contributing to this blog...yes you read that right, Matt will be contributing to this blog every once in a while.

For the first entry on this blog, I wanted to tell the story about how Matt happened to get a job in Florida.

Back in April, we made a decision to begin applying to Latin teaching jobs outside of Iowa.  The teaching jobs Matt had been applying to in Iowa were not panning out, and after a year of no job, we decided it would be best  to open our horizons. I sent out 28 e-mails to 28 different schools all around the country. Then we waited. Fast forward to May.  Matt had the interview with the school in Albuquerque and it didn't work out.  Discouraged, I sat down and applied to 12 more schools across the country.  3 schools became interested: One in Kentucky, One in Philadelphia and one in Florida.

Florida was unique, they wanted him to fill out an e-mail interview and then they followed up with a phone interview.  During the phone interview, they told Matt he was in the top three.  But after being rejected from every school, we didn't get our hopes up.  Flash forward to last monday (6-13).  The school called Matt and told him he got the job.

Now we're excited, and we're getting all packed up to move to Florida!  We're excited, terrified and nervous all rolled into one.  But we're ready to take on whatever gets thrown at us.

--Steph