Paul Luis and Emma Sophie '06	Paul Lui and Emmi 2006

Bordesholm, Schleswig-Holstein - Host Family at a Glance
30-something family, primarily German, living in Germany. Family speaks English, French, German, and Spanish. Looking for a female Au Pair. Our aupair will need to have a driver's license. Light housekeeping is required, and we will not accept an aupair that smokes.
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City	Bordesholm
State/Province	Schleswig-Holstein
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Country	Germany

Family Preferences and Availability
Seeking to hire	Au Pair
Prefers an Au Pair gender of	Female
Au Pair must be able to speak	English
Prefers an Au Pair in the age range	No Preference
Prefers an Au Pair of the nationality	American, Australian, British, Canadian, Irish, New Zealander, Scots, Scottish
Years of education required	No preference
Years of childcare experience required	No Preference
This position is	Full-time or part-time
Required hours of work by Au Pair	25 to 30 hours/week
We require the Au Pair to live in/out	Either
A car is available for Au Pair's use	Yes
We expect to pay a weekly salary in the range	$101 - $200
Light housework required of Au Pair	Yes
Languages spoken by our family	EnglishFrenchGermanSpanish
Our religion/spiritual practice is	No Religion
We require care for children under age 2	No
Number of children	2
Children's ages	5 and 7
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 required	August, 2009
Latest starting date Au Pair required	August, 2009
Shortest period Au Pair is required	11 months
Longest period Au Pair is required	12 months
Family references available upon request	Yes

Au Pair job description

We would like to find a responsible, warm and friendly, fond of children, nature loving, naturally, empathetic and creative au-pair. You should be flexible and have a good sense of humour and should have taken care of young children before. We need somebody with an international driving licence, who brings our children to kindergarten (maybe school at the beginning of the year), sports or to friends and picks them up again. Who prepares the lunch and plays with them until we finish our work. We would like the children to experience the outdoors as much as possible. We look for somebody who loves to spend quality time with the children playing, laughing and communicating well. Only once in a while we need a babysitter for a whole evening.... please find the rest under the "Dear Au Pair" Message

Family's Message to Au Pairs

Dear Aupair, if you want to be a part of our family please do not hesitate to get in contact with us. It would be great if we could get to know eachother soon as possible. We had already aupairs before and we experience(d) the time with our previous aupairs (Jane from Australia and Catlin and Andrea from the USA) as wonderful and precious time. Jane and Catlin have been here for a whole year and we have the impression that this is a good time to get to know each other and that it should not be much shorter. Kate our current aupair from the USA will stay with us until summer 2009). For Germany you do not need a visum. Maybe a little german knowledge would help to get the work and residence permit for you, but it does not matter if you have no german knowledge until know. You will live in the annex of our house with your own bathroom, little kitchen, balcony, TV (satellite), CD-player and PC (with free internet access). The next bigger cities are easily accessible by train (12min.) (station is five minutes on foot). We can make our car available to you from time to time for your free time activities. It is also possible that visitors (e.g. your parents, siblings or friends) come to visit you for some time in your house. We have a lot of nature and beautiful lakes around. You might attend language courses and the sports club. You are also invited to join us during our hollidays or family excursions and you will be insured, if you are not, against accidents and sickness. Your pocket money will be 260.- Euro per month (that is the usual salery in the European Union for aupairs). About our family and the place we live: Our family consists of two gorgeous children, Emma Sophie (5 years) and Paul Luis (almost 7 years) and two happy parents, Claudia (37) and Torsten (39). Our children are lively but well-behaved. We live together in a house with five rooms in a bigger village (around 10,000 inhabitants) in the north of germany (20 min. to Kiel (at the Baltic see) and one hour distance to Hamburg in the south, Denmark in the north and the North Sea in the west). We have a nice lake here and beautiful nature around. I am a physician and work about three days a week at the university in Kiel. Torsten is physicist and works as a teacher in a grammar school. The house has a nice yard for the children to play outside. Emma Sophie is Monday to Friday half of the day in kindergarten and Paul Luis in school, which he really loves. We love the nature, sport and music, though we do not have much time for these hobbies at the moment as we try to spend as much time as possible with our children. We are looking forward to get to know you soon! Yours family with Emma Sophie, Paul Luis, Claudia und Torsten :-) rest of Au Pair Job Description: We deliberately try to find an natively english-speeking aupair, because we want you also to teach our children english in a playful way. Both kids got during the last two years with our english-speeking aupairs already quite familiar with the language and understand a lot. Paul Luis also starts to talk in english. We are furthermore looking for someone who likes to cook and does not mind a little house cleaning, particularly concerning the kitchen and the childrens areas. We also have a cleaning lady who helps us especially with the bathrooms and floors. We enjoyed with our previous aupairs to get to know more about their culture and we learned about the great possibility to make friends on the other side of the world. Although we want you to be part of the family, you also can feel independent and enjoy your time off. Here are many possibilities for you to make friends and there is a monthly aupair meeting nearby.