Au-Pair in Germany
Johanna
Hello,
some of you might remember me – Johanna from Germany :-)
We are looking for an Au-Pair, though it should be someone who is as
respectful with kids as we are, so we thought an unschooler would be
perfect – we also unschool our kids (as far as German law allows).
Does any one happen to know anybody who'd like to spend a year in
Germany? Working as an Au-Pair...
... you pay your flight here and back yourself
... you eat with the host family and have an own lockable room (has to
be at least 8qm) in the family's home (both of which you don't have to
pay)
... you help with household whenever it is related with the kids
... you help with the care of the kids, so the parents can work, also
you babysit 1-2 times in the week if necessary
... you don't work more than 6 hours a day and 30 hours a week
(babysitting included)
... you get an allowance of 260 € per month, also during vacation
... you have a vacation of 4 weeks if you stay 1 year, or else 2 days
per month if you stay less than a year (one has to stay at least 6
months, but we'd like someone who stays a year if possible)
... you pay your own language course (in Germany German), the host
family has to allow you time to go there
... you have at least one free day in the week, at least one of those
in the month has to be a sunday
... you'd have a real contract. All the formalities would be taken
care of by an agency (which we can choose together), normally, the
contact making through the agency doesn't cost anything for the Au-
Pair (but for us).
... the host family pays your health insurance, also an insurance for
things you break or loose, and also in case you damage the kids or the
host family in some way
... the agency normally offers cheap city tours in Europe for the Au-
Pairs and meetings with other Au-Pairs (like Rome for 175 € I don't
know how many days, though, I guess for the weekend)
An Au-Pair does NOT:
... clean up the whole house or wash underwear of the host family :)
... take care of the kids the whole time
... make ALL meals for the whole family
The rest will have to be accorded between us (for example, how much
time to spend on the phone, which kinds work to do in the household
etc.)
You can find a lot more information on the internet of course.
We live in Leipzig, which is a thriving city 2 car hours from Berlin.
We've got two kids now, 8 (she's in a school wich unschools,
unfortunately we can't fully unschool because it is illegal in
Germany, so it has to be in a building), and 2, a boy. I'm pregnant
now so there would be another one around end of May 2008. We both
parents work mostly at home so you wouldn't have to stay with the kids
the whole day alone, but rather with us. We enjoy being with our kids
but we also really do have to work, so this is the solution we've come
up with :-) We don't know if you'd also have to take care of the very
little one, this depends one how well he or she would accept you,
though you could surely carry it around in a sling :-) We are NOT very
tidy and clean, rather messy. We don't smoke, and we wouldn't want
someone who smokes :-) We eat in parts organic food, but only what we
can afford. My partner is vegetarian, the rest of the family is not,
we eat a lot of fish and don't cook much meat because it's just too
much work to cook two dishes, but we wouldn't mind if you did cook
your own meat. We have internet :-D and a WII and a (old) playstation.
We do family activitites in the weekends and we especially have rather
little time to go out with the kids during weekdays, which is what
we'd expect you to do especially with the two year old (as long as he
wants to :-)). At nights we like to watch Star Trek or Seinfeld or
Scrubs or Frasier or My name is Earl or The Office or anything like
that in English, sometimes movies as well. We'd be looking forward for
your input in anything you'd like to do here in Germany.
You need to speak German in Level A1 according to regulations. With us
and the kids you can speak English or Spanish if you feel more
comfortable with (though you'd probably want to improve your German).
If anyone can help us, thank you very much!
Johanna
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Geflüstert wird nicht! - UNERZOGEN
www.unerzogen-magazin.de
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some of you might remember me – Johanna from Germany :-)
We are looking for an Au-Pair, though it should be someone who is as
respectful with kids as we are, so we thought an unschooler would be
perfect – we also unschool our kids (as far as German law allows).
Does any one happen to know anybody who'd like to spend a year in
Germany? Working as an Au-Pair...
... you pay your flight here and back yourself
... you eat with the host family and have an own lockable room (has to
be at least 8qm) in the family's home (both of which you don't have to
pay)
... you help with household whenever it is related with the kids
... you help with the care of the kids, so the parents can work, also
you babysit 1-2 times in the week if necessary
... you don't work more than 6 hours a day and 30 hours a week
(babysitting included)
... you get an allowance of 260 € per month, also during vacation
... you have a vacation of 4 weeks if you stay 1 year, or else 2 days
per month if you stay less than a year (one has to stay at least 6
months, but we'd like someone who stays a year if possible)
... you pay your own language course (in Germany German), the host
family has to allow you time to go there
... you have at least one free day in the week, at least one of those
in the month has to be a sunday
... you'd have a real contract. All the formalities would be taken
care of by an agency (which we can choose together), normally, the
contact making through the agency doesn't cost anything for the Au-
Pair (but for us).
... the host family pays your health insurance, also an insurance for
things you break or loose, and also in case you damage the kids or the
host family in some way
... the agency normally offers cheap city tours in Europe for the Au-
Pairs and meetings with other Au-Pairs (like Rome for 175 € I don't
know how many days, though, I guess for the weekend)
An Au-Pair does NOT:
... clean up the whole house or wash underwear of the host family :)
... take care of the kids the whole time
... make ALL meals for the whole family
The rest will have to be accorded between us (for example, how much
time to spend on the phone, which kinds work to do in the household
etc.)
You can find a lot more information on the internet of course.
We live in Leipzig, which is a thriving city 2 car hours from Berlin.
We've got two kids now, 8 (she's in a school wich unschools,
unfortunately we can't fully unschool because it is illegal in
Germany, so it has to be in a building), and 2, a boy. I'm pregnant
now so there would be another one around end of May 2008. We both
parents work mostly at home so you wouldn't have to stay with the kids
the whole day alone, but rather with us. We enjoy being with our kids
but we also really do have to work, so this is the solution we've come
up with :-) We don't know if you'd also have to take care of the very
little one, this depends one how well he or she would accept you,
though you could surely carry it around in a sling :-) We are NOT very
tidy and clean, rather messy. We don't smoke, and we wouldn't want
someone who smokes :-) We eat in parts organic food, but only what we
can afford. My partner is vegetarian, the rest of the family is not,
we eat a lot of fish and don't cook much meat because it's just too
much work to cook two dishes, but we wouldn't mind if you did cook
your own meat. We have internet :-D and a WII and a (old) playstation.
We do family activitites in the weekends and we especially have rather
little time to go out with the kids during weekdays, which is what
we'd expect you to do especially with the two year old (as long as he
wants to :-)). At nights we like to watch Star Trek or Seinfeld or
Scrubs or Frasier or My name is Earl or The Office or anything like
that in English, sometimes movies as well. We'd be looking forward for
your input in anything you'd like to do here in Germany.
You need to speak German in Level A1 according to regulations. With us
and the kids you can speak English or Spanish if you feel more
comfortable with (though you'd probably want to improve your German).
If anyone can help us, thank you very much!
Johanna
-------------------------------------------------
Geflüstert wird nicht! - UNERZOGEN
www.unerzogen-magazin.de
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