We have set up a great way to connect before and during your time in the US! Please be sure to like the Facebook Page: Cultural Care Au Pair-au pairs in the USA. Join the event for your week at the Training School, join your regional group (found in the Welcome page), keep in touch, ask questions and give advice to other au pairs who are also on this amazing journey.
I had posted the below ideas last summer as a way to get au pairs who are coming to the school to start thinking of ways to get to know one another while here at the Training School. This week, via the Facebook page, the group had talked about holding a "candy picnic" where au pairs could bring some typical treats from their country to share with others. We will be sure to post pictures!
Other ways to get to know one another by sharing your culture:
-A group organized “Secret Santa” international gift exchange A great way to start this is by creating a Facebook group for your week at the Training School. Once you have enough members, you can pair off into couples. Each person then brings a gift or small item from their home country for their partner and explains what it means.
-Another way to share your culture is to make it a goal to make friends with people from at least five different countries, if not more, and ask them about their life back home. See how it is the same and different from your home country.
-The classes at the school are split up by where your host family lives so you will have plenty of opportunities to meet people that will live by you. Try to meet people that will be living in other parts of the country and become internet friends. You can Skype, send e-mails and send them pictures or postcards from your host family’s city and ask them to do the same. Also, it might give you a good opportunity to travel within the USA to visit them during your year.
-Try to learn how to say a few phrases or to count in other languages. You can also write them down and teach them to your host children. This will then become a true cultural exchange for everyone!
There are countless ways to make friends and share your culture here at the school. If you can come up with any great ideas, post them on the page and maybe other au pairs will use your ideas while they are at the Training School!
I had posted the below ideas last summer as a way to get au pairs who are coming to the school to start thinking of ways to get to know one another while here at the Training School. This week, via the Facebook page, the group had talked about holding a "candy picnic" where au pairs could bring some typical treats from their country to share with others. We will be sure to post pictures!
Other ways to get to know one another by sharing your culture:
-A group organized “Secret Santa” international gift exchange A great way to start this is by creating a Facebook group for your week at the Training School. Once you have enough members, you can pair off into couples. Each person then brings a gift or small item from their home country for their partner and explains what it means.
-Another way to share your culture is to make it a goal to make friends with people from at least five different countries, if not more, and ask them about their life back home. See how it is the same and different from your home country.
-The classes at the school are split up by where your host family lives so you will have plenty of opportunities to meet people that will live by you. Try to meet people that will be living in other parts of the country and become internet friends. You can Skype, send e-mails and send them pictures or postcards from your host family’s city and ask them to do the same. Also, it might give you a good opportunity to travel within the USA to visit them during your year.
-Try to learn how to say a few phrases or to count in other languages. You can also write them down and teach them to your host children. This will then become a true cultural exchange for everyone!
There are countless ways to make friends and share your culture here at the school. If you can come up with any great ideas, post them on the page and maybe other au pairs will use your ideas while they are at the Training School!
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