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November cluster meeting

November 21, 2012 – 12:14 pm

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We had a wonderful evening together at Franzi’s hostparents home in Chestnut Hill. Franzi is from Germany and an Extraordinaire aupair with a special qualification for childcare. She loves the program very much and takes care of two children in schoolage and a baby. Below you see her with the middle child.

Franzi from Germany with the boy she takes care of

A very big thank you goes to the host family of Franzi who offered to host our Nov clustermeeting at their house. Over 30 aupair attended and the cluster created a thank you tree with leaves on branches for the hostfamily.

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Paula from Colombia, Ari from Spain and Dany from Ecuador

Sandra from France, Judith and Isabell from Germany, Paula from Colombia, Franzi from Germany and Amy-Louise from South Africa

Sandra from France, Judith and Isabel from Germany, Paula from Colombia, Franzi from Germany and Amy-Louise from South Africa

Kim and Katja from Germany

Caroline and Victoria from Sweden and Esther from Germany

Leonie from Germany, Charlotte from France and Janet from Germany

Sandra from France and Isabel from Germany

Vanessa from Brazil, Laura from the UK, Amy and Jackie from South Africa

October Cluster meeting: Zumba class

October 22, 2012 – 4:35 pm

For our October cluster meeting we enjoyed a free Zumba class at the Healthwork gym in Chestnut Hill. Liza Elmstrom a former aupair from Sweden some years ago who is now a fitness trainer at the Healthwork gym introduced our cluster group to a fun class with great music.

From left: Marine from France, Corina from Croatia and Lisa from Germany

The whole cluster had fun to dance the Latin rhythm together. Front: Linda from Germany

After one hour of dancing Zumba

A wonderful way to get connected and have fun together. We welcomed our new aupair Corina from Croatia who just arrived to our Boston cluster in October.

Left in pink: Fitness trainer Liza Elmstroem of http://www.healthworksfitness.com

For more pictures go to: Zumba at Healthwork

Kayaking for our August cluster meeting

August 19, 2012 – 3:18 pm

We met with our aupairs in our cluster today for a kayaking event as our August cluster meeting at the Charles River.

Many new aupairs who just arrived last week had a chance to get connections to others and saw the Boston skyline for their first time. We had wonderful weather and it was dry and not too hot to paddle along the river through the salt and pepper bridge that connects Boston with Cambridge.

After signing in we waited for everybody to be there

Lu from Brazil with Jessica and Hannah from South Africa

Franzi, Theresa and Lara from Germany who arrived just 2 days ago in Boston

Sammi and Jamie from South Korea shared a kayak together

Joyce from China and Jamie from South Korea shared a kayak together

Vanessa from Brazil with her friend also shared one kayak

Vanessa from Brazil with her friend Mayara also shared one kayak

Afterwards we had a pic nic together to share information about education together

Afterwards we had a picnic together to share information about education and other parts of the aupair program

For some aupairs it was also their last cluster meeting because they will go home after being an aupair for one successful year like Maria from Germany does in the Educare program. Or like Hannah from South Africa who will extend her stay as an aupair in the standart aupair program for another year in a different area of the US.

It was a wonderful meeting to share memories, exchange experiences to give out hints and tips for new aupairs and to enjoy the outdoors together. To see all pix please go to Kayaking August cluster meeting 2012.

Free concert series at the Emerson Park in Brookline

July 13, 2012 – 8:04 am

To come together with families and kids some of our aupairs joined the fantastic atmosphere of the free concert series in Brookline last Wednesday. Our aupairs introduced other families to our program and families had a chance to speak directly with questions to our aupairs.

Lisa from Germany

Vanessa and Lisa from Germany

This boy had a lot of fun with the beach balls we handed out to play

Meeting at the Vapiano restaurant in Boston

July 9, 2012 – 9:23 am

Lisa, Mareike and Linda from Germany who will go home after one year of being an aupair

We got together with a group of aupairs to say good bye’s to many of them who will go back to their home country soon after spending one or two years in Boston as an aupair with their hostfamilies.

We shared many great experiences and new friendships developed easily with new arrivals who came for their first meeting.

Left: Anika form Germany who just arrived in our cluster, Right: Vanessa from Germany who will start her travel month soon after being an aupair for 2 years.

Christina from Germany with her boyfriend Wes from Brazil. She also spend two years as an aupair in Boston. We will miss her !

From left: Maye from Mexico, Susanna from Costa Rica and Candice from South Africa.

For more pictures go to meeting at the Vapiano restaurant 2012.

June cluster meeting in the Boston Common

June 25, 2012 – 7:28 am

Sabnine from Austria together with her hostchild

Sabine from Austria

Charlotte from France

Paula from Colombia with Charlotte from France

Sammi from South Korea, Joyce from China and Anne from France

We spend our June cluster meeting at the Frog Pond in the Boston Common. We welcomed Sammi, a new aupair from South Korea to our cluster and shared some experience to deal with the heat wave we had in Boston for some days.

For more pictures go to June cluster meeting 2012.

Fun Ways to Eat and Cook Apples

October 6, 2011 – 6:57 pm

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Apples are great eaten raw and are ideal for school lunch boxes and snacks. You can bake, stew or microwave apples, then turn us into pies, tarts, crumbles and fritters.

Here are some wonderful ways to cook with your favourite apples:

Apple Cake
Peel, core and slice two apples. Prepare a packet butter cake according to directions, pour half the mixture into the cake tin, arrange apple slices evenly and top with remaining mixture. Bake according to directions allowing an extra 5-8 minutes.

Apple Crumble
Peel, core and slice 6-8 apples. Place apples in a lightly buttered baking dish with a 1/4 cup caster sugar and 2 tablespoons of sultanas. Top with toasted muesli and bake until apples are tender.

Yummy Apple Salad
Wash, core and roughly chop apples. Drizzle with lemon juice to prevent browning. Place in a bowl with sliced celery, lettuce , pecan nuts and toss with your favourite salad dressing.

August clustermeeting

August 7, 2011 – 7:24 pm

We had a special meeting where we had to say good bye to Meg and Maria, who are going home to the UK and Germany after a successful year as an aupair with many great experiences.

Jennifer form France and Christina from Germany celebrated their start in their second year as an aupair and many others helped to get the new aupairs like Vanessa , from Germany who also started her second year, to get settled in Boston.

Sanne form Holland brought a selfmade apple tard that she shared with all of us.It was delicious!!!

The Newton and the Boston cluster together at our meeting on August 7

We also had this meeting as our safety meeting where I gave out information on summer safety and some tips on what to do with the kids outdoors during summer vacation. To see all pictures please go to August clustermeeting 2011.

July 18 ~National Ice Cream Day

July 18, 2011 – 12:00 am

Ice cream

Celebrate by enjoying a few scoops of your favorite flavor or by making your own ice cream at home. Here is a simple recipe. You can change it up by adding a little chocolate syrup, a few chocolate chips, or using a flavoring other than vanilla.

In a quart size zipper baggie, combine…

1 cup of whole milk or half and half

2 tablespoons of sugar

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

In a gallon size zipper baggie…

Fill ½ way with ice cubes

Add 1/3 cup of rock salt (if you don’t have rock salt you can use table salt or kosher salt)

Seal the small baggie carefully and place the inside of the large bag. Seal the large bag and shake the bags until you can see the mixture thickening (about 5 minutes.) It will be cold to hold, so you may want to carefully pass it back and forth between yourself and a partner. Remove the small baggie and wipe the top off (to remove salt water,) unzip and enjoy!

Kayaking at the Charles River

July 17, 2011 – 7:14 pm

We had a wonderful time today with plenty of sunshine at our July clustermeeting.

Even though many aupairs are in vacation our new aupairs had a great chance to meet others and share their experiences with them. To see more pics please go to kayaking at the Charles River.

Shante's shared a delicious peppermint tart from South Africa with us

Shante shared a delicious peppermint tart from South Africa with us

Picnic at the Auburndale park at the Charles River

Charlene from France is ready to go with Por from Thailand

Well prepared for the ride are Christina with Wes, Sanne, Anita, Charlene, Por and Shante