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A road trip from San Francisco to Yosemite and back My husband Luis and I spend a week in San Francisco and did a road trip to Yosemite National Park. In this post I want to give you an overview of what we did, how we organized the trip, how much we paid, and share some pictures with you.
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Whether you are going to celebrate 4th of July – Independence Day – with your host family and your kids or not, there are some great ideas out there to prepare for the day with your kids. (Click the picture or the heading to read more!)
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So you are getting ready to leave your home country and become an AuPair in a different country. You are probably going through ups and downs of moods and feelings because you are going to leave your family and friends behind and you are going to meet lots of new people and live with a family that you hardly know. […]
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I need your help to improve Crazy-AuPairs and offer you the chance to participate on the Crazy-AuPairs-Website. Yes, you read right. I am looking for future and current AuPairs as well as Returnees and Hostparents
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I created the Crazy-AuPairs-Video-Youtube-Channel yesterday and hope that I can provide you with some interesting videos from us as well as promote some of your own videos! Video! My first upload is a video-preview “The Quest” of our Yosemite-Trip. Please follow and like and stay tuned for more! You can find pictures and a detailed report here 🙂 You may […]
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Bald schon ist Independence Day hier in den USA und daher ein guter Anlass einen Post ueber Feiertage und Festtage zu schreiben… Hier ein Post den ich vor einiger Zeit fuer das AIFS-Forum erstellt habe und fuer die Webseite ein wenig ueberarbeitet habe. =============================================== In den USA werden zehn Feiertage begangen. Im Vergleich zu Deutschland ist folgendes zu bemerken: Der […]
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I had a funny encounter in Walmart yesterday and I want to share it with you. I was looking for measuring cups which you can take quite literally in the United States. Whereas the Germans and most of the world measure in ml and l, the US uses a slightly different system of “cups” and oz. I will do a […]
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Ok, today I want to invite you to write a journal. Please, hear me out before you stop reading thinking this is nothing for you! I started writing in my journal when I arrived in the US – my mother gave me an empty journal when I departed. I just wrote as if writing to a friend (I used the […]
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I just found this article at AuPairmom.com about todays AuPairs and their expectations and I want to discuss the subject from my perspective as my (Anja) AuPair year started 15 years ago (wow really???! that long ago)… Please do not be offended by anything I write – take it, think about it, and create your own pre- and post-AuPair thoughts.
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Do you have problems to find a host family? Do you only receive very few phone calls? Did you update your online-profile and possibly even got some more babysitting hours but have still no success?
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