Work started right away the next day.
I’ll introduce the au pair work before I write about my au pair life.
Au pair work involves taking care of a family’s children and helping with housework while living in the family’s home, as I mentioned in my first blog “The start of my au pair life”.
It isn’t familiar job in Japan, but it is more common abroad. (At least that’s the case in Australia.)
This is what it looks like in a picture.
The host family provide all of the cost of living, rooms and food for an au pair because the au pair helps the family unlike a regular homestay.
Therefore, the concept of salary does not exist. However, depending on the family, they would allow us to borrow their car and bicycle, give us some pocket money (That said, it’s a great amount. Roughly $100~250.) and besides that give us more benefits.
Of course, the host family pay the cost of family trips for their au pair when the au pair accompanies them on family trips. (It does in my host family case.)
I think it is a very attractive job because, not only can I learn English from native people but also I can become close to the local family and life while keeping expenses low.
Moreover, seeing the lives of families who are raising children is a rare opportunity, regardless of nationality, and I think it is a valuable experience.
By the way, au pairs can’t work at homes that don’t have children or their children are over secondary school age because au pairs are required to take care of children (under 12 years old).
My host family has four members, parents and two children.
The children are 4th grade boy and 6th grade girl.
Apparently, many of the families looking for au pairs have children in the lower grades of primary school (about 8 years old), so theirs is on the older side.
When I came here, host mother had been going to a business trip of one month.
Mild Golgo Father often doesn’t come home for three to four days due to work commitments.
That’s why, it was my turn as an au pair.
They seem to have invited two au pairs (Finnish and German) previously.
I spend lively days with my host family.
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