{"id":2582,"date":"2012-05-01T13:33:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T17:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/2012\/05\/01\/community-counselors-from-au-pair-in-america-have-an-edge-on-training\/"},"modified":"2012-05-01T13:33:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T17:33:57","slug":"community-counselors-from-au-pair-in-america-have-an-edge-on-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/2012\/05\/01\/community-counselors-from-au-pair-in-america-have-an-edge-on-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Counselors from Au Pair in America have an Edge on Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1098\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/05\/Costa-Rica-dance-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"Costa Rica dance\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" \/><span style=\"color: #339966\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080\">Representatives from Au Pair in America around the world gathered last week in Costa Rica for a Conference.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span> Connecting with our team from around the world and especially with our Community Counselors from all over the United States was the goal of the conference.\u00a0 Opportunities were offered to travel in Costa Rica before or after the Conference\u00a0and many of us were happy to see the rain forest and coasts of Costa Rica.\u00a0 We met the beautiful friendly people of Costa Rica and loved their mantra:<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #339966\"><em>Pura Vida!\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1099\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/05\/Costa-Rica-workshop-group-300x92.jpg\" alt=\"Costa Rica workshop group\" width=\"300\" height=\"92\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1100\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/05\/Costa-Rica-party-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Costa Rica party\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>At the Conference we had workshops on ways to provide great service to our host families and au pairs.\u00a0 The connections we form at these meetings, help us service all our families and au pairs even more effectively.\u00a0 It was a wonderful Conference and re-energized us in our mission of cultural exchange and providing the best and most trusted intercultural live-in childcare in the world!\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #339966\">\u00a0\u00a0 One World &#8211; One Team!<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #339966\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1104\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/05\/One-world-many-stories-globe1-296x300.png\" alt=\"One-world-many-stories-globe\" width=\"213\" height=\"216\" \/><\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives from Au Pair in America around the world gathered last week in Costa Rica for a Conference.\u00a0 Connecting with our team from around the world and especially with our Community Counselors from all over the United States was the goal of the conference.\u00a0 Opportunities were offered to travel in Costa Rica before or after  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/2012\/05\/01\/community-counselors-from-au-pair-in-america-have-an-edge-on-training\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[161,291,300,465,466,469],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cultural-childcare-suffolk-county","tag-learning","tag-live-in-childcare-long-island","tag-suffolk-county-au-pair","tag-suffolk-county-au-pairs","tag-suffolk-county-childcare"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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