Westport Mini Maker Faire 2015

Young and old alike had fun making origami puppets at this year’s Mini Maker Faire, a town event that celebrates imagination, creativity, science, math and crafts.  Westport Au Pairs volunteered to help fair goers make dog, cat or fox puppets, distributed Mother’s Day cards for children to color and had fun testing the older children’s Read More

Touch a Truck 2015

Westport Au Pairs braved the cold and snowy weather Saturday March 28th to help the Westport-Weston Co Op Nursery School in their annual fundraiser Touch a Truck. Children had an opportunity to explore all sorts of trucks, ride a train, and blow cab whistles and horns, while Au Pairs face painted, applied tattoos and gave Read More

Multi Cluster Tax Meeting

Au Pairs from Westport, Weston and Wilton gathered at the Weston Field Club Wednesday March 11th to get help filing their taxes and to meet, greet and socialize with each other.  Read More

Valentine’s Day Idioms

Here is a Valentine’s Day mini language lesson of American  heart idioms.  Which ones exist/don’t exist in your native language?. List of “heart” idioms with definitions: to have a heart of gold – to care about other people to have a big heart – to be giving, caring to be cold-hearted -lacking in sympathy to Read More

Tour of the Westport Historical Society’s Wheeler House

Au Pairs from Westport, Weston and Wilton gathered Friday February 6th at the Westport Historical Society to see their new exhibit “Saugatuck at Work”,  We even got to meet the ghost of the sea captain in the famous mural.  Afterwards we toured the Wheeler House, which was built in 1795 and decorated in the Victorian Read More

Holiday Party 2014

Westport Au Pairs had fun at an International Holiday party at my house last night. Au Pairs brought homemade tasty delights from their native countries. ( I should have taken a photo of all of the food!)  There were  Italian, Israeli, Brazilian, Read More

Yale University tour

  APIA Au Pairs from throughout CT came together Saturday November 15th for a tour of Yale University.  Many of our Au Pairs braved the sunny but cold weather and attended the Yale vs. Princeton football game, which followed our tour. A         Read More

Pumpkin Carving at Compo Beach

Au Pairs from Westport and Redding, CT gathered at Compo Beach Tuesday morning Oct. 28th, to carve pumpkins, meet some new friends and catch up with others.  Au Pairs from Germany, Panama, Sweden, Thailand, Canada, Brazil, Spain, and Italy carved wonderful jack o lanterns to celebrate Halloween this Friday.  For many, it was the first Read More