the 'Children's Parade' ceremony at Kogane Shrine with our last aupair	with Ferdrico's betrothed

Gifu, Gifu - Host Family at a Glance
50-something family, primarily Japanese, living in Japan. Family speaks English, and Japanese. Looking for a female or male Au Pair or Nanny. 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 12/12/2004	Last Activity 11/20/2009	Profile added to 18 Hot Lists in last 30 days	Auto-Responses 29 Due
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City	Gifu
State/Province	Gifu
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Country	Japan

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Family Preferences and Availability
Seeking to hire	Au Pair or Nanny
Prefers an Au Pair or nanny gender of	No Preference
Au Pair or nanny must be able to speak	French
Prefers an Au Pair or nanny in the age range	No Preference
Prefers an Au Pair or nanny of the nationality	Belgian, Cameroonian, Canadian, French, Haitian, Luxembourgian, Maltese, Moroccan, Seychellois, St. Lucian, Swiss
Years of education required	No preference
Years of childcare experience required	No Preference
This position is	Part-time
Required hours of work by Au Pair or nanny	25 to 30 hours/week
We require the Au Pair or nanny to live in/out	Live In
A car is available for Au Pair or nanny's use	No
We expect to pay a weekly salary in the range	Less than $100
Light housework required of Au Pair or nanny	Yes
Languages spoken by our family	English Japanese
Our religion/spiritual practice is	Other
We require care for children under age 2	No
Number of children	1
Children's ages	8
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	50-something
Single parent family	Yes
Au Pair couples accepted	Yes
Earliest starting date Au Pair or nanny required	October, 2009
Latest starting date Au Pair or nanny required	September, 2011
Shortest period Au Pair or nanny is required	1 months
Longest period Au Pair or nanny is required	24 months
Family references available upon request	Yes

Au Pair/Nanny job description

-- We want an au pair to come from NOW until next springtime. (We have an au pair returning to us next spring and summer. And another au pair is scheduled to come after that.) -- There is no salary. -- Required Hours of Work by Au Pair: 5 to 7 hours each week. -- You'll teach Fred structured, but fun 1 hour French lessons. -- You must pay for your airline flight to and from Japan. -- We need a native speaker of French, or proficiency in French. -- We require progress in Fred learning French. -- You are free to travel around Japan whenever you like. -- We want you to speak French to Fred all the time.

Family's Message to Au Pairs and Nannies

We are looking for French speakers to live with our family. Our purpose is to have our 9-year-old son learn to speak French. For this reason, we would like to have a series of au pairs, until our boy is grown. WE WILL PROVIDE: -- An invitation to live with us and be a part of our family. -- Room and board (daily meals) with us. -- An iPhone. -- You WILL NOT have your own private room; most Japanese don't. You WILL have a private room in which to sleep at night. -- A daily chance to speak Japanese with our son's grandparents. -- A Japanese cultural experience. -- A daily chance to speak English and Japanese with the boy's Japanese mother. -- A daily chance to speak English with the boy's father, who is from the U.S. -- Participation in family activities ABOUT GIFU CITY: It has 410,000 people. It is surrounded by green mountains full of monkeys and mamushi, and clear rivers full of o-sanshouo, ayu and kappa. Also, there are a few volunteer groups near our home which offer free (or super cheap) Japanese lessons. You can find more information about Gifu City, the place in Japan where we live, by contacting the Gifu International Center. ABOUT US: Yuko is 53 years old (but she looks like 23), and has lived on the same land with her parents in Gifu for almost all her life (as has her father). She speaks English pretty well. She likes flamenco, sking, baking bread (including frenchbread) and eating out. Now, she is learning to drive. For about 28 years, she has been running a coffee shop/restaurant adjacent to the house. It has a western (occidental) style and western food. I, Paul am 54 years old, and come from the U. S.A. I have lived in Japan for 18 years (but never learned the language). My hobbies have included skiing, hiking, backpacking, photography, and now astronomy. I teach English and help Yuko cook when she is busy. Yuko & I married 9 years ago, and had Fred (Ferdrico). Yuko has 2 boys from a previous marriage. They are Hiroshi, age 32 (he can speak English), and Jun, age 28 (he cannot speak English). Hiroshi lives a couple kilometers away with his wife and baby Soma. Jun works in a blowfish restaurant in nearby Nagoya, and lives there with his wife and baby Sena. Fred's grandmother (Baa-chan) & grandfather (Jii-chan) do a lot of the rearing of Fred (They cannot speak English). Ba-ba-chan, Jii-chan's mother, died in 2004 at age 95! HERE ARE SOME MORE DETAILS WHICH MAY PRE-EMPT SOME OF YOUR FUTURE QUESTIONS: We cannot help you with Japanese Immigration to obtain your visa. If you arrive at Nagoya Airport (Centrair), we can pick you up at that airport, but if you come to Tokyo or Osaka airports, you must come to Gifu by yourself. Japan has national health insurance, for ¥18,000/year. If you buy appropriate health insurance in your country, then the Japanese insurance requirement would be waived. We feel this this is VERY cheap since everything is expensive in Japan. You are welcome to stay as long or as short a time as you like, as long as Fred's French is progressing. Most Japanese are quite insular in regards to allowing non-family, let alone foreigners, into their homes, so this is a very rare offer.