{"id":1632,"date":"2013-01-27T15:56:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T20:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vas\/2013\/01\/27\/do-you-volunteer-2\/"},"modified":"2013-01-27T15:56:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T20:56:04","slug":"do-you-volunteer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vas\/2013\/01\/27\/do-you-volunteer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you volunteer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQbDYwUg1TAGODh-Yjp3-beGtNKfi9W-9gsGDFJT2ZsFO82MkrJ0Q\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>\u201cthe most improtant hour of your week may be the one you give away\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Currently we are running our first-ever Au Pair Community Service Contest. The deadline is February 15<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 We have gone out to the au pairs a few times but if you have an au pair in your cluster who has been volunteering in the community please give her a nudge to apply!\u00a0 All of the information is right here \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aupairinamerica.com\/communityservice\/2013.asp\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.aupairinamerica.com\/communityservice\/2013.asp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy this excerpt from Ela Sebrek\u2019s submission. She\u2019s a Croatian au pair living in Denver, CO.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201c<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>When I first came here six months ago I felt really homesick and I almost went back home. Since kids I&#8217;m taking care of are in school half a day, I was alone at home a lot. Getting out of the house and go help others really helped me feel better. \u00a0People where I&#8217;m volunteering are treating me so nice. I know that I can count on their help if something happens. Especially I enjoy to volunteer in Children&#8217;s Center! Kids are so sweet. Sometimes we have to be very persistent to make them cooperate, but most of the time we&#8217;re having a great time. When we can&#8217;t go out, we stay in the gym and there is this little guy that&#8217;s always next to me. He doesn&#8217;t want to play with anyone else but me. Then we usually pick his favorite book and I&#8217;m reading it to him. In no time other kids join us. That&#8217;s the most special moment for me. Of course that doesn&#8217;t last long because there is always something that &#8220;catches their eyes&#8221;, but it&#8217;s nice to have their attention for couple of minutes.<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>I never thought that people in the USA are volunteering that much. Back in my country that&#8217;s not such a common situation. I also discovered lots of new interesting books and my language skills improved a lot.<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Volunteering become very important\u00a0for me because it keeps my mind busy, I&#8217;m meeting a lot of great people here and I don&#8217;t feel that lonely anymore!<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteer award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,507],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-award","tag-volunteer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Do you volunteer? - Fredericksburg Au Pair In America Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Do you volunteer? 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