Now more then ever we will race, run or walk for a good cause.
Our Walk for Hunger is coming up. Please sign up at the Au Pair in America team at:
http://www.projectbread.org/site/TR/Walk/General?px=1531861&pg=personal&fr_id=1210
These two aupairs enjoyed the Walk for Hunger 2012
Check out the official web side for info on the Boston Marathon on April 15.
http://www.baa.org/races/boston-marathon/event-information.aspx
Here you can find more general info on the Boston Marathon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon
“Tortoise and Hare”, created by artist Nancy Schön and installed on May 19, 1993 by the Friends of Copley Square as a tribute to the runners who have participated in the Boston Marathon.
Who has not seen these creatures in downtown yet?
Today we met at Athan’s bakery in Brookline to talk about extension and aupair taxes. We had a great time to get to know a new aupair Aurelie from France who just arrived in Brookline yesterday. What a wonderful chance for her to find friends right away who live close to her.
Amy from South Africa, Aurelie from France and Dennisse from Mexico
We also could celebrate the third place of our snowman contest here today. Amy did a great job with her snowman with the Au Pair in America baseball cap. She got a ” I love Boston T-shirt” for her effort.
Amy with the picture of an excellent snowman build after the last snowstorm
Another aupair got her certificate of completion of her education part of the aupair program:
Caroline from Sweden got all her 6 credits which is the requirement to have during the one year as an aupair in the US.
Left to right:Tamy from Germany, Dennisse from Mexico, Amy from South Africa, Aurelie from France and Caroline from Sweden.
We met today in the Blue Hills in Milton to hike together up to an outlook to enjoy the view over the Boston skyline. Up on the hill we had a picnic together and talked about the outdoors and about plants who are not familiar to many aupairs who come from places where they don’t exist: Poison Ivy. Since none of them has leaves yet, they are hard to find but it’s best to know about them before the leaves are out. I guess everybody is now aware of the “leaves of three, let them be” in order to avoid rashes on themself and the children.
We celebrated the award of the snowman contest which we had after our Nemo blizzard: Lynn from Germany won the first prize and got a T-shirt : I Love Boston
We also celebrated Jia ‘s award she got from AIFS for her volunteering at a Boston food pantry. She won the 2’nd prize in this national volunteering award competition.
Jia talked to the whole group about her experience with volunteering and encourage them to do this too since it is so rewarding for her.
Two new aupairs arrived last week in our cluster: Veronica from Colombia and Anja from Germany. Both of them were able to attend our meeting already and had a great chance to get in contact with many other aupairs on our hike.
Andrea and Ivonne from Mexico ,Kristine and Kim from Germany, Ceci from another cluster and Veronica from Colombia who just arrived in the US last week.
Anja from Germany who just arrived and Anika who will go home to Germany soon after being an aupair in the USA for one year.
Jennifer from Germany who just arrived in our cluster with a friend from Newton
Marie from France and Isabella from Germany who both arrived just a month ago.
More pictures of our cluster event at Hike in the Blue Hills 2013.
