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Valentine’s Day Clustermeeting

February 13, 2012 – 2:09 pm

We had a wonderful Valentine’s Cluster meeting on Sunday to celebrate this special day within our cluster.

Many aupairs contributed with sweets and other home made food to our international buffet.

At this meeting we were also talking about taxes, the aupairs have to file.

It was really great to see so many of our growing cluster at this meeting. We also discussed some questions about education and driving as an aupair.

Katrine from Denmark who brought her home made yummi cookies

Candice from South Africa and Susanna from Costa Rica

Laura and Leonie from Germany

From left to right: Jessica from South Africa, Julia from Germany, Fernanda and Rafael from Brazil, Anita and Linda from Germany

Camille, Charlene and Jennifer from France and Christina from Germany

For more pictures please go to Valentine’s Day 2012.

Boston Area Au Pairs Celebrate The Holidays

December 5, 2011 – 9:26 pm

Linda from Germany, Hannah from South Africa, Vanessa and Anita from Germany

Heike’s au pair group

Boston area community counselors

On Sunday, we celebrated the holidays with other Boston area au pair clusters at the Scout House in Concord. Over 150 au pairs participated in the au pair holiday gala.

Counselors supplied holiday music, decorations, main dishes like ham, turkey, lasagna, as well as a holiday punch. Each au pair was asked to bring food to share from her country.

Au pairs also participated in a gift swap game during which they were asked questions like “Who has visited the Grand Canyon,” or “Who has an American boyfriend?” As you can imagine, there was a lot of laughter involved.

Gift Exchange Game

As a conclusion to a fun evening, au pairs also split up into country groups to sing traditional holiday songs from their country.

To see some more pictures please go to Holiday party 2011 , cluster group picture and Tina’s pix.

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

June Clustermeeting

June 12, 2011 – 5:47 pm

We had a chatty lunch and afternoon together at our June clustermeeting at my house in Braintree.

To many aupairs we had to say good bye and new aupairs already arrived who were happy to get in touch within our cluster.

I am so thankful to have so many fantastic aupairs who share their information with traveling in and out of the US, taking classes at local colleges and opportunities how to get together with each other.

Our buffet was tremendously good with International food everybody shared within our group from their home country recipes.