Ah, what a nice day we had on Sunday  to be outside for pumpkin carving!  As you can see above, my au pairs were very creative in carving patterns into their pumpkins.   While they carved, they happily chatted about their lives and seemed to enjoy each other’s company.

Most au pairs know about Halloween but do not celebrate it in their countries.   They are usually very excited to experience this American holiday and at Au Pair in America we promote this kind of cultural exchange.    On Sunday they got the Halloween treatment which included a noise-sensitive howling ghost, bats, spiders, snakes, cockroaches as well as food offerings that might creep the faint at heart out:  a witches brew that contained a bloody hand, bloody (hot dog) fingers, crawling cracker/pretzel stick critters, chicken eyeballs, bat wings, as well as Halloween cut out cookies and a creepy critter cake.

We said good-bye to Adisah and Emma who are leaving us in November.   They received their education certificate, a small good-bye gift and an acknowledgement for their achievements.    They shared their experience with and gave advice to the other au pairs.  We welcomed Juliette, Alice, and Natalie whose first meeting this was.

For more photos of our meeting please visit Pumpkin Carving.