at a wedding.	in summer in a park, XiaoXian took the picture

Breda, Noord-Brabant - Host Family at a Glance
30-something family, primarily Dutch, living in Netherlands. Family speaks Dutch, and English. Looking for a female Au Pair. 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 08/31/2008	Last Activity 11/16/2008	Profile added to 8 Hot Lists in last 30 days	Auto-Responses 19 Due
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City	Breda
State/Province	Noord-Brabant
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Country	Netherlands

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	18-26
Prefers an Au Pair of the nationality	Chinese
Years of education required	13-16
Years of childcare experience required	No Preference
This position is	Full-time
Required hours of work by Au Pair	30 to 35 hours/week
We require the Au Pair to live in/out	Live In
A car is available for Au Pair's use	No
We expect to pay a weekly salary in the range	Negotiable
Light housework required of Au Pair	Yes
Languages spoken by our family	Dutch English
Our religion/spiritual practice is	Christian
We require care for children under age 2	Yes
Number of children	1
Children's ages
We have children with special needs	No
Elderly care is required	No
Disabled persons care is required	Yes
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	March, 2009
Latest starting date Au Pair required	March, 2009
Shortest period Au Pair is required	12 months
Longest period Au Pair is required	12 months
Family references available upon request	Yes

Au Pair job description

Hello, We already have an au pair. She takes care of our almost 1 year old daughter for 4 days a week. In the first weeks she only took care 3 days but she asked herself if she could take care 1 day more because she taught it was more fun with the baby around than being alone. On these days she also does the shopping (food) and the cooking and some laundry. On wednesday and in the weekends she is free and also in the evening. Then she meets friends, other au pairs and students who study here in Breda, mostly Chinese students. The most important thing for us is that you can take good care of our daughter and that you have fun with her. Our au pair always goes walking with her, plays with her a little and in the afternoon our daughter always sleeps for 1 or 2 hours. And although our daughter is only 9 months old, they really are laughing together, really funny to see.

Family's Message to Au Pairs

Hi, We are a family of 3, my husband Aernoud, me and our little daughter Maud who will be 1 in december. She is very sweet, is laughing all the time and is easy going. Since march we have an au pair from Beijing, XiaoXian. She takes care for our daughter 4 days a week and cooks easy to make food and does some laundry. During these 4 days she often goes walking with her friends (students and other au pairs in Breda) because she can easily take Maud out and Maud likes to go out. Once a week XiaoXian follows an English course and in the weekend she often goes visiting other cities like Amsterdam, Antwerp, Koln in Germany. She also visited France with us and will go to Italy and Paris in autumn. From Breda where we live, all those cities are close by and easy to visit. Well, Europe is small and easy to travel especially since flight tickets are cheap. At home we have a lot of fun! we always eat together, also chinese food, and and she knows our friends and family. She is just part of the family. My family knows quite a lot about China since we all visited China some times and my brother lived in Beijing and Shanghai and speaks fluent Chinese. Sometimes XiaoXian is homesick and misses her family and friends, but according to her she almost is not homesick, luckily. Only in the beginning a few times when everything was quite new and she did not know as many people as she does now after some months She already learned a lot of English. You know that in Holland we speak Dutch but everybody is almost fluent in English too, so Holland is a good country to learn English as well. The best thing about Holland is that you can get around really easy: take the bike, go to the city centre or to other cities by train. We live in the centre of Breda so a lot of things close by like shops and cinema. Rotterdam is half an hour by train, Antwerp 45 by bus, Amsterdam 1,5 hour by train, Paris only 3 hours by train. And people are always very helpfull in the streets. If you have any questions just look at a website . It is a website for Chinese students and others who like to go to or already live in Holland. They often organise trips in Holland as well and XiaoXian made some new friends trough the website. beye! Oh, before I forget: Xiao Xian will go back to Beijing in march so from march 2009 we are looking for a new au pair Ina, Aernoud and Maud