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I'd like to tell you about how exciting a gap year abroad can be! A friend of mine did a gap year in Ghana and so I asked him some questions about his experiences abroad.

 “A hundred years from now...

it will not matter what my bank account was,

the sort of house I lived in,

or the kind of car I drove...

...but the world may be different because

I was important in the life of a child.”

 

1. How is it to have an au pair? – The view of a host family

Hello, my name is Franzi and I´d like to tell you about what it is like to be a host family. When I talked to my mum, I found out some interesting facts about the au pairs that I had when I was a lot younger and that I myself can't really remember anymore.

As my parents both had to go to work, they organized au pair girls for me when I was a little child. They thought it would be good for me to have a person who lived in the household with us so that I had the chance to get to know that au pair better. They also liked the idea of teaching the German language and also German traditions to an open-minded person from another country. Furthermore it was less stressful for my mum, because she didn't need to drive me to a nanny. This was also useful when my parents wanted to go out in the evening because I could sleep in my own bed.

My first au pair stayed with me when I was three years old. My mother told me that her name was Emmy and that she came from Slovenia. I cannot remember that but I was told that she was very friendly and helpful.