Arlington, VA -based Community Counselor and Global Awarenesss Representative, Dominique Ortiz shares her King's Day Traditions: Every year, I invite my co-counselor Kristina Scholten and together with my family and hers, we celebrate King Day with a homemade "Galette des rois" or King Cake. King Day is traditionally celebrated in France on the 6th of [...]
This year we asked au pairs to submit a picture of them celebrating a holiday while on program with Au Pair in America. French au pair Sarah P. in Natalie Skidmore's Washington, DC cluster sent in a photo of her family exchanging gifts: "My father whom I manage to surprise every year."
This year we asked au pairs to submit a picture of them celebrating a holiday while on program with Au Pair in America. Submitted by Alison M. from South Africa in Carol Steinman's Westport, CT cluster. "The photo was taken in the winter of a celebration called Diwali, it is an Indian celebration and I [...]
Happy Holidays to all the au pairs who have been our Global Awareness ambassadors this year. We are humbled to see how so many work so hard to promote multi-cultural understanding and build cross-cultural bridges by sharing their knowledge with the children in their communities. Thank you for your participation this year and we are [...]
Au Pair in America Explorers for December Community Counselors have identified these two au pairs as the Au Pair in America Explorers for December. Suzette H. from Panama in Jasmin Newsome's Baton Rouge, LA cluster. Suzette received many accolades from her host family about her assimilating into their life style. What was fun to read [...]
German Au Pair Frauke H. has been spending her time in the program in Laura Rossi's Richmond, VA cluster. Recently she visited Old Hundred Elementary School, Midlothian where she did a Global Awareness presentation to a group of 20 Kindergartners. Frauke tells about her day: "I introduced myself to the class and told them that I [...]
Au pair Nadine C. from South Africa is spending her year in Ediana Raquel Sharpe Roque's Belmont, North Carolina cluster. On December 6th she had the opportunity to talk about South Africa at the Gaston Day School in Belmont NC. There were 35 pre-k children around 4 years old. Nadine shared with us that the [...]
Winter Traditions and Holidays Around the World Let's highlight the wonderful splendor of winter by sharing what you do in your home country to celebrate this time of the year. Send a photo of a celebration that you shared with your host family. Entries will be accepted through January 6th. Entries will be posted during [...]
