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Well a lot of you know that I am working in Switzerland as an AuPair. What a lot of you don't know is what made me choose to pursue this job choice. Well back in March/April, my mom went to the Dominican Republic and met a girl who is a nanny in the United Kingdom. She got into talking to her about her job and such. When my mom came home she started talking to me about this nanny job and that I should really look into that. I was going to Cuba a month later so I wasn't too worried or interested at that point in time. I was in school when this was brought up so it wasn't a main concern of mine.
A couple months later I made the decision to not return to school in September so I started looking for a full time job while still working at Subway. I wasn't finding anything. Traveling is something I have always wanted to do in my life and its something I enjoy. I didnt find school fun anymore, it was something I wanted to take a break from for the time being. I started looking at different websites for aupairs. I used www.greataupair.com and I am now using www.aupair-world.net . I started talking to a family from Ireland who had an aupair from Alberta so I talked to her because she has gone through what I was about to go through. She and I had been talking for a couple of weeks when she has asked if I was set on going to Ireland or if I was interested in going else where and if I was, that her old family in Geneva, Switzerland was looking for an aupair because the person who was suppsoed to come but at the last mintue changed her mind. I said that I was interested and she gave me Nina's email and we started emailing back and forth. Before I knew it Nina had hired me and we started the visa process. IT took about 6-8 weeks for the papers to come back stating I was granted entry into Switzerland and only 4 days for the visa to be issued. Within in my visa being issued and buying my plane ticket this all happened within a week in a half, talk about stressful. Before I knew it October 15 was here, and I was just finishing up packing and heading out the door to the Detroit airport. It still hadn't hit me that I was going.
This was the first time I have ever travelled alone with no one else and I think once I had gone through the security check in Detroit, I think that is when it was starting to hit me that I was actually doing this. When I had to board the plane it had hit me with full 100% force, and I started freaking out and thinking WTF am I doing with my life, this isn't what I want. I'm screwed. I was worried I was going to be alone and have no friends and that this experience was not going to be a good one. Once I arrived in Switzerland I was still unsure about what I was doing and why. I got to the house that I was going to call home for the next 12 months I went straight to bed. When I woke up i was confused and groggy, the next morning I woke up was the worst morning of my entire life, I was dizzy, faintlike, lightheaded and just feeling like all around crap, couldnt eat nothing. I ended up going to sleep in Alice's room and napped for a couple hours but I still didnt feel 100%. It took a couple of days before I was back to normal. When Roos left, I was alittle worried about doing this job, once I got started and into a routine things started becoming much easier. I started to enjoy my new life and my new job.
A couple months later I made the decision to not return to school in September so I started looking for a full time job while still working at Subway. I wasn't finding anything. Traveling is something I have always wanted to do in my life and its something I enjoy. I didnt find school fun anymore, it was something I wanted to take a break from for the time being. I started looking at different websites for aupairs. I used www.greataupair.com and I am now using www.aupair-world.net . I started talking to a family from Ireland who had an aupair from Alberta so I talked to her because she has gone through what I was about to go through. She and I had been talking for a couple of weeks when she has asked if I was set on going to Ireland or if I was interested in going else where and if I was, that her old family in Geneva, Switzerland was looking for an aupair because the person who was suppsoed to come but at the last mintue changed her mind. I said that I was interested and she gave me Nina's email and we started emailing back and forth. Before I knew it Nina had hired me and we started the visa process. IT took about 6-8 weeks for the papers to come back stating I was granted entry into Switzerland and only 4 days for the visa to be issued. Within in my visa being issued and buying my plane ticket this all happened within a week in a half, talk about stressful. Before I knew it October 15 was here, and I was just finishing up packing and heading out the door to the Detroit airport. It still hadn't hit me that I was going.
This was the first time I have ever travelled alone with no one else and I think once I had gone through the security check in Detroit, I think that is when it was starting to hit me that I was actually doing this. When I had to board the plane it had hit me with full 100% force, and I started freaking out and thinking WTF am I doing with my life, this isn't what I want. I'm screwed. I was worried I was going to be alone and have no friends and that this experience was not going to be a good one. Once I arrived in Switzerland I was still unsure about what I was doing and why. I got to the house that I was going to call home for the next 12 months I went straight to bed. When I woke up i was confused and groggy, the next morning I woke up was the worst morning of my entire life, I was dizzy, faintlike, lightheaded and just feeling like all around crap, couldnt eat nothing. I ended up going to sleep in Alice's room and napped for a couple hours but I still didnt feel 100%. It took a couple of days before I was back to normal. When Roos left, I was alittle worried about doing this job, once I got started and into a routine things started becoming much easier. I started to enjoy my new life and my new job.