| Dear host family,
My name is Wannipha but please call me “CoCo”. I am a 23-year-old graduate. During my study, I joined a Work and Travel in the USA program 3 times in the period of 3 – 4 years. I was in Bensalem, PA in 2006, Atlantic City, NJ in 2007 and I just got back from Reno, NV on July 2008. So, I am not only pretty used to an American environment, my English skill is considered advanced as compared to other Thai students. I’m not saying my English is excellent but I don’t think you have anything to worry about.
Regarding my childcare experience, recently, I went back to visit my friends in Atlantic City, NJ where I worked in 2007. I got a chance to take care of Daniel, a 3-year-old son of my ex-boss. My duty started on every Tuesday evening to Thursday at night during my period of 1 month there. I was responsible for his breakfast if we didn’t go eat out. I was his company during the day. Daniel likes to play soccer so I happened to be his playmate. I always kicked or threw the ball a little bit further for him so he could do some exercise. Plus, Daniel loves his Ginger (a beagle dog) and Kitty cat so much. We always spent time with them because I like dogs too. Sometimes, I prepared him dinner. We relaxed in the evening and I pretty much let him spend time with his father. Then I gave him a bath. We spent a little more time together. Then I tucked him into bed.
On a nice day, Daniel and his parent liked to go out to the beach. Most of the time I was invited, I just couldn’t deny Daniel’s plead. I just had to make sure I gave them some privacy but never took my eyes off of Daniel. Besides, Daniel and I got a chance to go to an amusement park too. My duties there were to make sure he’s having fun and staying safe.
During my visit to the US for the last one month, I stayed with a person who I worked with from last year. I had to take care of her kids when they were out of school. So, after Bianca (14), Papito (10), and Sianni (6) were on summer holiday. Because they are older kids, I didn’t have to worry about what they were doing so much. All my main duty was making sure the kids had something to eat. I drove to grocery store to get basic-need-stuff the kids usually eat.
In addition to my childcare experience, I took a childcare course at Arpapatchara Kindergarten for up to 200 hours. I was responsible for children at the age of 1½ - 2 ½ years old. There were almost 40 children with 3 teachers and me as a babysitter in the class. I took care of everything involving the children such as keeping an eye on them to make sure that they were behaving and assured that they didn’t hurt themselves nor other classmates. Also, feeding the kids was a part of my job. I had to make sure no children ate too much because we didn’t want them to feel sick and want to vomit. Importantly, I was trained to have a small talk with the parents in the morning when they dropped off their kids in order to find out about the status of the kids whether they felt terrific or they were in bad condition so we knew how to take care of them during our duty, especially how to feed them so they wouldn’t get worse but better.
Anyway, besides that stuff, I had to prepare lunch for them. Not that I had to cook but setting up the table for all kids and make sure everyone who could help themselves was not calling for us babysitters to feed him. After they finished, we cleared up the table. Then, I put them to bed to take a nap. About 2 hours later, they started waking up. Now it’s time to get them a small bath, change their clothes, change their diapers, and do the hair for girls and boys sometime too. Then, I took them to play at the playground as well. And right there, I couldn’t miss anything because anything could happen at a blink of the eyes. I had to be very careful to make sure the kids were not going to get hurt. And after the kids were picked up, my task ended for the day.
Even though I’ve done my 200 hours training, I'm trying to learn more about how to handle children, especially about ‘in case of emergency’ stuff.
Regarding my driving experience, as I mentioned earlier, I have no less than 7 years of experience in driving an automatic car and never have any accidents that caused an injury to me or my passengers.
I want to do this job because I love being with kids. Even sometime they can be a trouble maker but always in a term of endearment. They are just innocent and pure. Plus, with all experience I mentioned and have not yet done, I am good at it because my ethic of this job is always to take care of the kids as if they were my own. Other words, I promise to do my job to the best of my ability.
Thank you for your consideration. I hope you can feel we, together, can help your kid(s) growing up in a good environment and being surrounded by people who will do just anything for his/her/their own good.
I’m looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely yours,
CoCo
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