Mexican au pair Sofia Orozco Castañeda is spending her year in Stephanie Harris's Framingham, MA cluster. She had the opportunity to share her MExican culture with 12 3-4 year olds at Bright Horizons. In my presentation I talked about 7 different topics. The first one was about my flag, the second about traditions in my [...]
Luisa O. in Denise Eliopoulos's New Jersey cluster had the opportunity to speak to a class of twenty 2-5 year old's about her home country, Mexico. Despite Luisa's initial nervousness she ended up being really excited once she got started. Here's her story about her "Day trip to Mexico": I first began explaining a bit [...]
Washington D. C. based Au Pair Diana G. presented on her home country Mexico to Maury Elementary School. Diana is in Ann Robertson's cluster and shares about her experience: Visiting a public school in a Washington DC neighborhood, was one of the greatest experiences that I have had in the United States, during my time [...]
For 2017 International Women's Day the theme was #BEBOLDFORCHANGE. We invited Au Pairs to share their greatest accomplishment so far in their year as an Au Pair in America, that has changed or will change their life for the better. Maria D. from Mexico is in Agnes Barton's Virginia cluster: My greatest achievement as an Au Pair is having [...]
Fadia, an au pair in Charlotte, NC, presented information about her home country to a group fo 56 K, K-1 and 1st grade students at the Pawtuckett Elementary School. She engaged the children in learning about Mexico and her culture through song, teaching Spanish words and answering questions. The children really enjoyed her presentation and hugged [...]
