A very spectacular day for our APIA community. Over 125 people – host families and au pairs – tattooed the children, threw flyers around a beach, colored the world, sang a happy birthday, scavenger hunted the cultural way, ate dishes from around the globe and ended our fun with a good ole’ water balloon toss with kids and their sweet care givers. What fun! Thank you all who attended and made this day so wonderful!
Au pairs gathered in Issaquah at the Salmon Hatchery to learn how important these fish are to our ecosystem here in the PNW. They saw the salmon as fry all the way to those set free in the ocean to be dinner for our orca whale population. And in perfect Seattle fashion, the rain came down on our event! Thanks to the group who came and who stayed…and later enjoyed some pizza and conversation in a dryer environment.
Our APIA au pairs headed to the Eastside to learn about a man who immigrated to the U.S. from Austria to escape the Nazi’s in Europe. He later went on to win an olympic gold medal in skiing, open his own successful candy factory in Seattle and later Issaquah, Broehm’s Candy, become a patron of the arts, and be the oldest man to climb Mt. Rainier. Quite an inspirational story filled with travel and innovations!
Our au pairs from all other the globe share their customs and traditions during the holiday season. Spanish-speaking, German-speaking, English-speaking, Mandarin-speaking, Thai-speaking au pairs shared songs of the season. What talent! What passion! Gives us pause that the future of our world will be just fine in the hands of these brave, dedicated women of peace.
