| Dear Family,
I am a Chinese au pair registered with Au Pair in America agency.
I’d like to introduce myself in the first place. I am a junior in Beijing Foreign Studies University, the best language university in China. I am working for my double major in E-Commerce and English. I can communicate with others freely in English and my ability to write and speak English is out of question. Currently I am leaning French as well.
My childcare experience has its beginning in my own family. My parents divorced for a certain reason in my early childhood. My father, an upright and diligent civil servant, married again, and later my stepmother gave birth to my younger sister when I was 9. My sister was born with a joyful nature. She smiled the entire time in the nursery, and for the next four years or so she slept twenty out of twenty-four hours every day. I felt this baby was a sleeping angle, for life already was a sweet dream come true for her. Over these years I have been acting as a Little Mother and a tutor for her. I always have fun caring for her, cooking and cleaning for her, playing puzzles, building a hamster cage, piling up her building blocks, singing nursery rhymes, etc. In home schooling I was allowed the freedom to help my sister explore the world as I wished. We didn’t have to read about whatever catastrophe people were currently bemoaning, and so we feasted on the Chinese traditional classics, the fairy tales by Anderson and the Brothers Grimm, the poets of Tagore and the cheery cartoons by Walt Disney. During these years we shared together, our sisterhood flowered like algae in an aquarium, and I developed real confidence in my strengths as a Big Sister to kids. My sister is 12 now and she is going to the best middle school in my city in the following months. I am so proud of her. I really do.
I love kids, and they are all angles in my eyes. I find myself gifted being with children, and I enjoy much. Last winter vacation I worked as an intern in the Xingguang kindergarten. Sitting in town, it is forested with quiet residential streets and peaceful houses. I was responsible for 11 children aged from 3 to 4 years old. After the internship I find myself more skillful in communication with children. I begin to think in their positions, talk with them in an equal manner and show understanding first about their thinkings and then guide them step by step onto the right track. And greater knowledge brought only greater love. You and I might behave impudently in the world without a particle of shame, but the kids stump us. They are angles, lofty, pure, beautiful, and wise. The kids in the kindergarten have given me more than I could ever give them in return, and I will not stop giving what I can to kids when attending them.
Childcare experience is one where we can harvest more than we give. I feel voluntary work is the same. Last summer vacation I volunteered in the 29th Olympic Games and the 13th Paralympic Games in Beijing. I provided service to many athletes and referees from all over the world. I worked for two months and did a lot of things, mainly language service. Compared with the great quadrennial event that agglomerated of the painstaking efforts of all Chinese, I clearly knew that what I did was only a drop in the ocean. However, I spared no efforts to help people from the world fulfill their dreams in Beijing. I felt I harvested far more than I spent, and I was satisfied. No pains, no gains, and as long as I work hard,I will surely be rewarded in some way. This is my life attitude.
At last, I want to share with you why I want to be an au pair girl in America. One of my most distinguishing characteristics is that I value variety. I am a well-read girl with a keen interest in both Chinese and American literature. I also have a passion for traveling and understanding different cultures of the world. Being an au pair can be the road to independence, and a great opportunity to experience a different country and culture. Both you and I will benefit from learning about the other's culture. And honestly speaking, I am very fond of American culture. That is why I choose America. What matters most is that I love kids. In the kids’ eyes, all things in the world are all beautiful and incomparable. I want to have a childlike innocence forever, to play together with kids, happy together. Caring for them is a delight to me, and I will do my best to take care of them.
This is just a briefing of me, and there is much, much more to share. Now I would appreciate your time in reading the letter, and if there is any additional information you require, please u for a personal interview.
With many thanks,
Emma | 
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