Akiko , age 25 at a Glance
25-year old woman, Japanese national living in Japan who speaks English, and Japanese. She is a non-smoker with previous Au Pair experience that has a driver's license and is willing to do housework. She has a passport from Japan and no visas.
Customer Since 06/15/2008	Last Activity 11/13/2008	Profile added to 1 Hot Lists in last 30 days	Auto-Responses 3 Due
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Contact Information for Akiko
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City	Kurashiki
State/Province	Okayama
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Country	Japan

Au Pair Preferences and Availability
Prefers to work with families of the nationality	No preference
Would like to work in the following countries	United States
Au Pair will only work in the following cities	No preference
Languages spoken by Au Pair	English Japanese
Earliest starting date Au Pair is available	December, 2008
Latest date Au Pair is available	December, 2008
Shortest period Au Pair can stay	12 months
Longest period Au Pair can stay	24 months
Au Pair is seeking work that is	Full-time
Au Pair prefers a work situation that is	Live In
Au Pair's weekly salary expectation is	$101 - $200
Years of education completed	17-19
Years of previous childcare experience	1
Au Pair owns her own automobile	Yes
Will care for children under Age 2	Yes
Will care for the elderly	No
Will care for disabled people	No
Will work for a single parent family	Yes
Will care for special-needs children	No
Will care for pets	Yes
Au Pair can swim	Yes
Has first-aid training	Yes
Religious or spiritual practice	No Religion
Prefers a family in the age group	No Preference
Dietary considerations	None - I eat everything
Au Pair's health is	Excellent
Au Pair's height is	5' 1" or 155 Centimeters
Au Pair's weight is	95 Lbs or 43 Kgs
Au Pair is married	No
Au Pair is part of a working couple	No
Will provide references upon request	Yes

 

Au Pair's Message to Families

One of the most important jobs for Au pair is to create a safe and clean environment for the children they live with, passing each day in health and peace of mind. It is very important to establish a relationship of mutual trust with the host family to give children such an environment. It is not easy to live together in one house for people who have different cultures, religions and customs. But it is not difficult at all to do it if we respect each other and set a goal to create a good environment for the children. We need to develop close relations to establish a relationship of mutual trust. And I know I need to improve my English skill to make it happen. It is one reason to participate in an Au pair program. But it is more important to have a strong connection between the host family and me. Intercultural experience is another important thing. It will be a precious experience for me to go to another family’s home and live with them. At the same time I know I will be greatly affected by living with people of a different culture and customs for children. I would like to make an effort to make such experiences into an irreplaceable and wonderful thing. In America I lived for a time with an American family. And I also lived part of the time in a school dormitory. I learned how to get along with people of different cultures and also with people of differing religious beliefs. Also today I live with my family and my mother has always taught me to be responsible. I share in the household duties at home. I am strongly in the belief that these experiences will serve well at this time in an Au pair’s life. In college I studied under a great American teacher about not only language but also American culture, customs, ways of thinking, so many things. And I studied teaching Japanese, too. To teach language isn’t the only thing for teaching Japanese. Laying stress on introducing Japanese culture is also very important. I think I can be successful in applying what I learned in college. In my childhood, when my parents were working, it was very hard for them to care for their children. But my brother and I spent our young years without any injury or sickness. It was not only their efforts. Also it was because of my grandparents, teachers and neighbors who came together as one to give us a great environment. Infancy and childhood are very important to create the base to grow children’s character. The love of parents and others who are around the children are very important for this valuable time. I would love to be a member of the family and offer them the same great environment that I received from my parents and other adults. Also a sense of responsibility is as essential as love. To assist children to think, support themselves and develop the power to act, I want to attend to them with a sense of responsibility as great as that of parents. Children are stimulated to grow from the adults who are near them. So we who directly attend to children need to mature continuously, and I would like to learn a lot of things and soak up from other people and broaden my horizons. I want to have the kind of irreplaceable Au pair experience that money can’t buy, by joining the household of a family of a culture different from mine in order to create a warm family atmosphere in which the children can always feel that they are cared for.