Houston High Schoolers Learn about Germany from Svenja G.

Svenja G. in Jennifer Stein's Houston cluster spent some time at Ridge Point High School sharing about Germany to a special need's class. There were 13 children from the ages of 15 to 19.  This is what Svenja had to say: I started the presentation with talking about the journey from Germany to Houston. Then we talked [...]

By |2017-06-08T22:39:44-04:00June 12th, 2017|Blog|Comments Off on Houston High Schoolers Learn about Germany from Svenja G.

2017 Earth Day Pictures

Earth Day was celebrated in many ways this year. In Jan Peedin's Maryland cluster the au pairs volunteered by picking up litter along the streets of Historic Ellicott City. To celebrate Earth Day Au Pair in America asked for photos of Au Pairs in nature with or without their host child. The Winner was: Laura [...]

By |2017-05-17T14:34:50-04:00May 17th, 2017|Blog|Comments Off on 2017 Earth Day Pictures

Earth Day Contest Winner Laura R. from Germany

Laura R. from Germany wins the 2017 Earth Day Contest.  Laura is in Judit Markarian's Washington, D.C cluster. We asked Au Pairs to let us know how they would celebrate Earth day and submit a photo doing an outdoor activity with or without their host child. Laura's submission was "Back to the Basics" with her [...]

By |2017-04-24T19:21:54-04:00April 24th, 2017|Blog|Comments Off on Earth Day Contest Winner Laura R. from Germany

Global Au Pair in America Birthday Party

The Au Pairs in Dominique Ortiz's and Kristina Scholten's Virginia clusters spent their monthly meeting sharing birthday traditions from around the world!  They learned that there were many similarities across the different cultures. This is what they learned: In Germany, it is a whole day celebration with family and then friends, eating cake, drinking coffee, [...]

By |2017-04-06T23:04:15-04:00April 5th, 2017|Meet Your Global Neighbor|Comments Off on Global Au Pair in America Birthday Party

International Women’s Day – Anna G. from Germany

Anna G. from Germany, is in Agnes Barton's Virginia cluster. For International Women's Day Anna did a self-reflection: Hi! I'm Anna from Germany and I'm an AuPair for almost three months now. My greatest accomplishment so far is that I love myself. I'm an introverted person so going to live with complete strangers, in a [...]

By |2017-04-03T23:57:16-04:00April 4th, 2017|2017 International Women's Day Essays|Comments Off on International Women’s Day – Anna G. from Germany

My American Christmas

Anne G from Carol Perry's Bainbridge, WA cluster shares her impressions of her first American Christmas: After 5 months in the USA I got to spend my first American Christmas with a family which had become my second family over the time. I was scared of the upcoming holidays because I knew from former Au [...]

By |2017-01-20T15:10:21-05:00January 20th, 2017|Meet Your Global Neighbor|Comments Off on My American Christmas

In Germany Christmas is Celebrated on the 24th

Anastasija V from Paul Zwiren's NY cluster explains how Christmas celebrated in the US is different than in Germany: I always wanted to experience an American Christmas. It seemed so unbelievable special to me because I used to know from all those American Christmas movies, that Americans celebrate Christmas very decadent and more than everyone [...]

By |2017-01-20T15:12:02-05:00January 19th, 2017|Meet Your Global Neighbor|Comments Off on In Germany Christmas is Celebrated on the 24th

Cultural Comparison – Raffle Winner

Kim B. from Cindy Garruba's NY cluster shares her experience celebrating Christmas in the United States: That whole last month was so exiting for me. First it was my first Christmas in the United States, second I didn’t celebrate it with my family and friends in Germany, but third I had the opportunity to celebrate [...]

By |2017-01-20T15:29:10-05:00January 18th, 2017|Meet Your Global Neighbor|Comments Off on Cultural Comparison – Raffle Winner
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