8/2007 - Summer vacation in Italy	12/2007 - Getting the Christmas tree

Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Wurttemberg - Host Family at a Glance
30-something family, primarily German, living in Germany. Family speaks English, and German. Looking for a female Au Pair or Nanny. Our aupair will not need to have a driver's license. Light housekeeping is required, and we will not accept an aupair that smokes.
Customer Since 09/16/2007	Last Activity 08/08/2008	Profile added to 3 Hot Lists in last 30 days	Auto-Responses 18 Due
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City	Freiburg im Breisgau
State/Province	Baden-Wurttemberg
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Country	Germany

Family Preferences and Availability
Seeking to hire	Au Pair or Nanny
Prefers an Au Pair or nanny gender of	Female
Au Pair or nanny must be able to speak	English
Prefers an Au Pair or nanny in the age range	18-26
Prefers an Au Pair or nanny of the nationality	American, Australian, British, Canadian, Irish, New Zealander
Years of education required	12
Years of childcare experience required	No Preference
This position is	Full-time or part-time
Required hours of work by Au Pair or nanny	25 to 30 hours/week
We require the Au Pair or nanny to live in/out	Live In
A car is available for Au Pair or nanny's use	Yes
We expect to pay a weekly salary in the range	Negotiable
Light housework required of Au Pair or nanny	Yes
Languages spoken by our family	English German
Our religion/spiritual practice is	No Religion
We require care for children under age 2	No
Number of children	4
Children's ages	2x7years, 2x4.5years
We have children with special needs	No
Elderly care is required	No
Disabled persons care is required	No
We have pets	No
Our family falls in the age group	30-something
Single parent family	No
Au Pair couples accepted	No
Earliest starting date Au Pair or nanny required	July, 2008
Latest starting date Au Pair or nanny required	October, 2008
Shortest period Au Pair or nanny is required	9 months
Longest period Au Pair or nanny is required	24 months
Family references available upon request	Yes

Au Pair/Nanny job description

*** Thank you for your interest, but we already found a wonderful aupair *** After great experiences, we are now looking for our next aupair. We are looking for someone who would like to be part of our family and help us raise our kids in a loving and understanding manner. Your main job will be to play, take care of and teach either our "older" twins (7 years) or the "little" twins (4.5 years). In general, you will be in charge of only two kids at a time. You would help in the mornings getting the kids ready, be in charge in the afternoon to play, explore, do science or craft, teach...., and occasionally help in the evening getting them to bed. Typically, late mornings, evenings/nights, weekends are off. Light housework (loading dishwasher, errands, occasional basic cooking...) would be desirable - we do have somebody for house cleaning, and of course do our shares as well! We both work at the university and have a flexible schedule to accommodate your wishes as well.

Family's Message to Au Pairs and Nannies

We would like to welcome you in our family and give you a happy home away from home. We have four kids (2x 7 years (born 3/2001), 2x 4.5 years (born 8/2003)). Yes, you read correctly, we have two sets of twins and it's real fun – we love it. We hope to find somebody who will love our kids and "adopt" them as family. In return, we think that we can provide the warmth of a family for you. We are an outgoing and fun loving family and like the outdoors. We already had aupairs since more than four years, among those two from the US (Ohio and Wisconsin) – we are still in close contact with them. We (including the kids) very much love the company and experience. The older twins (Janika and Kajan) are in second grade in elementary school, and the little ones (Kenio and Marik) are in day-care. My husband, Kristian, and I, Katja, both hold a Ph.D. in Biochemistry. We work at the nearby university as assistant professors. Our job also requires some traveling, which we often made a family trip including our aupair. This e.g. took all of us to Berlin, Barcelona, Rom, London, Stockholm, Boston and San Diego. Our aupairs also joined us for summer vacation at the Mediterranean see and skiing in the Alps. We live in a house with a little yard in Freiburg, the so-called "capital" of the black forest region in Germany. The top floor would be yours: one large room, your own tiny bathroom (w/o shower, which you would thus share with us) and a smaller room which can be used as storage space or could be furnished as kitchenette. Our house is close to the beautiful city center with great cultural activities and shopping opportunities as well as to the student quarter. Freiburg has about 212'000 inhabitants and about 23'000 students. Our place is also great for outdoor lovers who want to go skiing (downhill and cross country), hiking, walking, running etc. If you want multi-cultural experience you can easily reach Switzerland and France in about 30 to 45 min. Before we moved back to Germany in fall 2000, we lived in Switzerland and the United States (Berkeley, CA) for a few years. Since we enjoyed our stay in the US and the people so much, we are looking for somebody to share this culture with our kids. We want to educate our children bilingual and love to have a native English speaker around. All kids speak some English so that knowledge of German is not required. Any teaching experience or even an education in this field or anything related to child education or development would be a plus. More information about the job and the location can be send on request. We can't wait to hear from you! Katja and Kristian with Janika, Kajan, Kenio and Marik