Elaine Blomeyer:  

Life I actually left Muir in the middle of my junior year and went to Maryland. After that, I went straight to USC as an RHP (Resident Honors Program for High School Seniors). Since I applied to the program while attending Muir, my grades were sent back to Muir at the end of my freshman year at USC and I was able to graduate. While at USC, I majored in Math and German and was able to spend a year at the University of Vienna in Austria. I returned to USC for a Master's degree in Mathematics. Eventually, I started teaching Math in East LA. While teaching, I married and had 2 daughters. Jenzi was born in 1981; Kiri in 1985. They are both really fun kids, although they're both adults and pretty much do what they want. I taught school for 5 years before leaving that field and becoming a software engineer. I've worked in a variety of industries and traveled all over the country. I've performed installations and training from Hawaii to Germany. One job took me to North Carolina where I lived for 5 years. Before that, I was in Arizona. While in North Carolina, my marriage started to falter and I returned to Arizona. I also got it into my head to look up someone I had met years ago in Austria when I was a student there. He also had just gone through a divorce. It took us awhile to sort things out, but early in 2005, I moved to Austria and we got married. For almost 2 years, I lived in a teeny village in Upper-Austria about an hour and a half drive from Vienna. My husband Gernot is a country doctor, and I di...Expand for more