Most au pairs come to the States because they’re fascinated by American culture and want to experience it first-hand by living and interacting with their American host parents and kids. That was the reason why Marta, a Polish au pair, matched with her host family in Metairie. Once Marta found out that her hosts were interested in learning about her country too, she was excited to share her culture with them, their kids, kids’ friends, kids’ grandparents and whoever liked to listen about Polish pierogi and the beauty of Warsaw.

On Monday, she found an even bigger audience at St. Catherine of Sienna Catholic School where her talk was attended by close to a hundred curious students who asked very clever and pertinent questions.

In Marta’s words:

My Global Awareness presentation took place at my host child school, I was talking about my country- Poland, kids were very interested and asked many question about the weather and food. I showed them Polish money and gave some Polish candies. It was so much fun, especially with 5 PreK groups (about 100 students). It was a great experience!