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This past Sunday, au pairs gathered in Issaquah to watch our WA salmon spawn – another quintessential Seattle experience for these world travelers. We talked with a fish docent to hear about how the salmon is born and returns at the end of their life to the same stream, feeling poetic for a group of young women leaving home for the first time, ready for life’s adventure away from home. We then crossed a bridge and sat in a patch of grass to discuss homesickness and culture shock. Au pairs also anonymously shared something they needed help with regarding child care- involving discipline, behavior around food, sibling rivalry or potty training. Their fellow au pairs then problem-solved these dilemmas real time, coming up with some solutions to the issue at hand and thereby supporting their fellow APIA community member. And this all in English – a second language for all…
Salmon Spawning – October 2014
Salmon Days – October 2013
Salmon Take Flight – October 2012
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.