Love and Missing that is Hard to Translate – the Brazilian Concept of “Saudade”

Bia from Brazil has been attending poetry nights while in her adopted city and sharing her inner most thoughts on being an au pair.  Some poems are happy and some explain the profound impact of a cultural exchange on an identity and on a mind, and words, or English words, will simply not suffice.  Watch [...]

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Cultural Presentation and Volunteering Spotlight – Caroline from Brazil in MA

I chose to do a recreational activity on 04/14 for the after school kids that meet there on the playground (Angier School Elementary). I always go with my oldest host kid to the playground in the afternoon and his friends always have curiosities related to my home country. I always tell my host kids about [...]

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Cultural Presentation Spotlight – Katherin from Colombia in NY

I’m a Colombian Au Pair, I made the presentation in the local library to preschool children, the children were between 3 and 4 years old, mainly we had a story-time, I read them some books in Spanish and I also helped them understand the language, I also taught them different Spanish lessons, including different songs [...]

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Cultural Presentation and Volunteering Spotlight – Juliana from Brazil in IL

My idea for the global presentation was to share to the kids the stories about the brazilian folklore at the local library. I showed to them pictures of the most famous characters and their stories and then we made a mask representing the brazilian werewolf, they loved it. For volunteering I helped in the garden [...]

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