Hi families, I’m an au pair/nanny
Lisa aged 26
Gender:
female
Nationality:
Swedish
Location:
Italy
Membership No:
735775
Lisa aged 26
Available from: 1 Jul, 2019 Available to: 31 Dec, 2024
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On vacation in Prague, summer 2018
In front of Duomo in Milan, September 2018
From a weekend in London, summer 2018
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Nanny/Au pair from Sweden, named Lisa (20), fluent in Swedish & English looking for an au pair family for 6+ months.
Dear family, my name is Lisa and I am currently 20 years old (21 on April 8th). I am an au pair in Milan, Italy and have been one since September 2018. I am in a long distance relationship with my boyfriend who currently lives in Sweden but is being deported to his home country, Morocco. I love working with children and we both wish to have our own very soon. However, the conditions of the situation at this point in our lives literally suck. Our plan is to get married and move to Sweden. However for the marriage to be approved by the state and for us to be able to move to Sweden together we need to spend more time together, in the same country.
Although I wish for his dreams to come true and that he can have the life that he wants to have in Sweden, I am really excited to see his home country and experience some of it's culture. I love languages and although in school you only learn Swedish and English I have studied the history of language plus four other languages. I wish to learn Moroccan Arabic to foremost be able to speak with my boyfriend's parents and siblings but also to experience a bigger piece of culture, which in my opinion, language is.
As part of my current au pair stay I live with a family of five with 3 children between the ages of 0-6. My main job is to teach the two older kids (2 & 6) English, by playing with them 5 hours a day, 6 days a week. I will live half of my time au pairing alone and half of it with the family, which ables me to compare the two. I go traveling with them to Italy's countryside, to the mountains in Switzerland and on vacation to Abu Dhabi. Basically, I'm just a part of the family. In my current au pair family there is not a lot of house work since they have a full time nanny during weekdays.
To go au pairing yet again is to me not about replacing anyone. I have loved my au pair stay in Milan and I hope to keep in contact with the family in the future. However, it has given me some insight in both my qualities as an au pair but also what I look for in a family - what I like and what I am less appreciative of. In my future au pair family I wish to be wanted for my qualities as a person and the similar interests rather than just being the cheap help. I am fluent in Swedish and English and hope to speak one or both languages in the family I work for. I also enjoy being active, doing arts & crafts or taking strolls while admiring and experiencing culture. I used to play soccer when I was younger and since I played it for 10 years I would say I'm still pretty good and can teach a lot of nice moves. I wish to work about the same amount of hours that I have done in Milan. That is 30/h a week or less +2 extra hours of baby sitting if needed with 24 hours notice. If the 24 hours notice is not respected I get payed extra. However the way I work now is time off 1 day/week which for me isn't enough time to reload. In my future host family I wish to work 5 days a week with 2 days off of the host family's choice. I do not mind house work but I don't think it should be the over powering part of my job nor my main job. I would like to be given time to be able to study Moroccan Arabic as a course of a few hours a week.
My biggest experience in childcare comes down to my current au pairing. Before that I had done some internships at local kindergartens plus schools for kids up to 8. I had coached a young girls' soccer team, had babysat my friends' siblings and my own sisters (who are born -00 & -04).
I've been wanting to go as an au pair since I was 15. I've always loved to be around kids since they are so open minded and loving without a pre-set mind of different cultures and religion. All they know is what is around them and what people teach them and since my mind is really open and imaginative I have always preferred to hang out with the young rather than the old. When I quit high school at the age of 19 (as you do in Sweden) I was really sick and couldn't go as an au pair. A year later, when I had just turned 20 I met my current boyfriend who had just recently come to Sweden and he convinced me to follow my dreams of being an au pair.
Being in a long distance relationship works, but we're not super happy about it. My main goal at this point in life is just to be with my boyfriend. I want to learn everything about him and where he comes from, but to do so I need to live there and mainly, I need to have a job.
Au pairing is a great life style. You get to have fun job, helping developing and taking care of those who are going to be the great minds of the future. You get to live with a hopefully, very nice family that although it's not your biological one, it feels real. At the same time as you get to bond with amazing people you get to do it in another country with a different culture, religion and language. That to me, is the most thrilling part of it all - to start loving what was once unknown.
I'm a pretty liberal individual at heart which means the limit of my fantasy is the sky, and that is why I am so suitable with children. I love food from every corner of the earth, but I try to not eat meat nor chicken for climate and animal cruelty reasons. However, I love cooking and baking and to experiment with different flavors and textures. I love being out and active in nature (although my skin is really fair and sensitive and if I'm out all day in sun I will look like a tomato), my biological family and I used to go for hikes in the Swedish nature, I also love to photograph it and me and boyfriend enjoy working out together outside. I also enjoy fashion, make-up and self care and create content on it for social media all the time.
As mentioned above, after au pairing I would like to go back to Sweden with my future husband - get a house, get a job and have children of our own. I want to be a mom and I want to be one with the man that I love.
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