Thursday, October 6, 2011

IS THE AU PAIR PROGRAM THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR YOU?

If you are tired of taking English classes that don't really teach you anything besides colors and numbers, if you can't afford to study abroad, if you want to take a break from your boredom, if you want to see other countries and meet new people and besides all that you love children, this is the right program for you.
Regardless which reason you have, knowing someone who was an Au Pair it's already a start, if you don't know anyone you can always come to me lol. I can help you not to SKYDIVE at just ANY family, besides explaining to you what the program is REALLY about.

So, why again?
Because you don't believe it can be THAT bad (until you become one).

Because you want to live abroad more than anything.
Because you want to take a 'break' of your BORING life.
Because you THINK that in a 'First World Country' you won't find corruption, falsity, theft, rudeness (high demand in the US and a few Americans are VERY freeloaders).

Be aware of what are your Duties and NEVER EVER do ANYTHING just to be nice because most of the families will become TOO COMFORTABLE and that will become one of your duties (if you give them a hand, they will ask for your arm and assume you should also give them your legs).

It's hard and extremely stressful, sometimes even depressing but you are a believer and think a year will go by fast. It really does... It really does go by fast when you spend your days PRAYING for the weekend to come faster (that's if your one of the lucky ones who don't work WEEKENDS). Your new FRIENDS will become you 'SIBLINGS' and only they will help you go through the year (only 10% find a good family and have a good experience).

Good luck... You will need it!!!

2 comments:

  1. then what happens after the au pair program? am i required to come back to my country?

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  2. Yes, you are required by the agency to go back to your home country. If you do decide to stay, DO NOT tell the agency!!! Tell the family because they might want to keep you working for them. You have 3 alternatives after the Au Pair program: get a student visa, get a tourist visa or go underground (let the visa expire and become 'out of status'). Do not be afraid to stay! If the agency find out you wanna stay, they will do everything they can to change your mind. They will tell you you'll become illegal, that they will call immigration to arrest you, that your life will be like hell, that they will cancel your visa, etc. But that's all a load of )*&^%#@!@$^!!! They won't call immigration on you once they CANNOT cancel the visa and nothing will happen, just change the visa to student or tourist and you'll be good.
    The agency threatened my host family and myself saying that they would call the police to arrest me in front of the kids! It turned out they didn't! I changed my visa after leaving the program and 3 years after my 2 year program ended I can say I'm happily married to a wonderful man, still living in NYC and in touch with my Au Pair host family. GOOD LUCK!

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