looking for Au-Pair again!
Johanna
Hello,
some of you might remember me -- Johanna from Germany :-) A year ago,
I wrote here and in other mailinglists looking for an unschooling Au-
Pair -- and we found someone! Thank you, whoever forwarded the message
to the right person! Now a year has passed, our friend is going home
soon and we are looking again!
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 6, 9 or 12
months 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, but ours is bigger) 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 required
... you don't work more than 6 hours a day and not more than 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)
... 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 three kids: Our daughter, 9 (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 two sons: one is 3
years old and the baby is 5 months old.
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 and want to work, so this
is the solution we've come up with :-) You'd be taking care of the two
boys, and you should be able to carry the very little one around in a
baby carrier :-)
We are NOT very tidy and clean, rather unorganized. 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
(pescetarian), 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 TV. 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 three year old (as long as he wants to :-)).
You need to speak German in Level A1 according to regulations. This
will be tested with three questions by we donÄt know exactly who. If
you are from Europe (EU) or have a second passport from a EU-Country,
language skills won't be required (they just don't test it). 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).
Before making up a contract, we want to have e-mail contact, hopefully
chat and videochat contact and of course by phone.
If anyone can help us, thank you very much! Please contact us via: dialog@...
-- we're on no-mail in the mailinglists! Feel free to forward to
other unschooling, continuum concept, consensual living, attachment
parenting etc. mailinglists and to your friends from anywhere around
the world!
Johanna
--
www.unerzogen.de
www.unerzogen-magazin.de
http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/unerzogen/
--
(Mit Sohn (2), Tochter (9) und Baby *31.05.08!)
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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 :-) A year ago,
I wrote here and in other mailinglists looking for an unschooling Au-
Pair -- and we found someone! Thank you, whoever forwarded the message
to the right person! Now a year has passed, our friend is going home
soon and we are looking again!
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 6, 9 or 12
months 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, but ours is bigger) 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 required
... you don't work more than 6 hours a day and not more than 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)
... 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 three kids: Our daughter, 9 (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 two sons: one is 3
years old and the baby is 5 months old.
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 and want to work, so this
is the solution we've come up with :-) You'd be taking care of the two
boys, and you should be able to carry the very little one around in a
baby carrier :-)
We are NOT very tidy and clean, rather unorganized. 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
(pescetarian), 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 TV. 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 three year old (as long as he wants to :-)).
You need to speak German in Level A1 according to regulations. This
will be tested with three questions by we donÄt know exactly who. If
you are from Europe (EU) or have a second passport from a EU-Country,
language skills won't be required (they just don't test it). 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).
Before making up a contract, we want to have e-mail contact, hopefully
chat and videochat contact and of course by phone.
If anyone can help us, thank you very much! Please contact us via: dialog@...
-- we're on no-mail in the mailinglists! Feel free to forward to
other unschooling, continuum concept, consensual living, attachment
parenting etc. mailinglists and to your friends from anywhere around
the world!
Johanna
--
www.unerzogen.de
www.unerzogen-magazin.de
http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/unerzogen/
--
(Mit Sohn (2), Tochter (9) und Baby *31.05.08!)
-------------------------------------------------
Geflüstert wird nicht! - UNERZOGEN
www.unerzogen-magazin.de
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