iCXC Au Pair in China: Experience Chinese Culture Up Close

My experience with ICXC as an aupair was amazing, I’m very grateful for all the support and help throughout my au pair experience in China. From the beginning, they guided me through the process and were always willing to answer my questions and help whenever I needed it.
Thanks to iCXC, I had the opportunity to live in Shenzhen, experience Chinese culture, meet amazing people, and create so many unforgettable memories. This experience helped me grow, become more independent, and learn so much about myself and a new culture. Thank you, iCXC, for making this experience easier and for always being there to support me. I truly appreciate everything you did for me, and I would definitely recommend iCXC to anyone who is thinking about becoming an au pair in China

My experience as an au pair has been amazing. I’ll never forget how fun and enriching it has been to live with a Chinese family for more than eight months. Both the agency and the family have been incredibly kind and supportive, always making sure I felt comfortable and listened to. Time really does fly when you’re having a good time, and this experience has passed in the blink of an eye. I’ll always cherish the memories I’ve made here, and I look forward to coming back one day to reunite with the family and the friends I met along the way.

I really enjoyed my stay here thanks to ICXC. The program was very good, and the agency helped me a lot! I really enjoyed being part of this program, living this incredible experience, discovering China, and meeting amazing people. I lived here in Shenzhen for three months with a family to teach English to the kids and learn about China. This was very fun, very warm, and very interesting 😆. If I have the chance to do it again, I will do it with ICXC for sure, because I had a lot of help with everything and had a wonderful stay.

A great way to explore China and being immersed in to the culture and habits.

At least six months is the way to fully understand the soul of this country.

It will not always perfect but if you find your own way to explore and live it at the fullest. Be ready to learn a new way to live and making new friends, they will be your saviours during hard times, sharing experiences with each others will be useful to encourage each other and walk all together during this journey.

China has many great things to offer and you will never left alone and never bored once.

Hi, I'm Erica and I spent six months as an au pair in Foshan, Guangdong. It was an intense six months filled with fun, culture shock, and adaptability. The agency was very professional, finding me a host family within a few days and helping me with the visa and paperwork process. The family was fantastic; the parents were very outgoing and friendly, and the children were quite calm. I also had the opportunity to participate in their company's activities. Overall, I found it a very formative experience that allowed me to develop a strong adaptability.

I really appreciate my experience in China and the time spend with the different families with whom I work. I could try different food, be able to learn a new language that I thinking it will impossible to learn by myself, learn a new culture and to share my own culture, make new friends.

And working with the children helped myself as well, we could learn and improve ourselves with each other.

All the families with whom I worked was from different part of China, one from Shenzhen, the other from Harbin and the last one from Taiyuan but they live to Shenzhen now, I could learn different style of food and travel a lot in China.

Being an Au pair in China absolutely changed my life for the better in so many ways. It allowed me to grow in the personal and professional spheres of my life. As a Mexican, it opened my expectations to see China just as it is, an amazing, exciting, interesting, and very beautiful place to live.

The crew in the Au Pair program was very nice and helpful at all times. Also, I was very lucky to have an amazing and charming host family. I learned a lot from the host parents and from the host kids.

I started off with a 6-month Program in Shenzhen. Got in contact with ICXC through my private network and quickly talked to an employee in China, who spoke fluent English. Back then, I already studied some Chinese, but it wasn't necessary to know any Chinese.

After a few days, I had an interview with a host family. Mom, Dad, Older Sister, and the young boy I was supposed to take care of and teach English.

Arriving at the airport, an employee of the agency personally picked me up and brought me to the host family's home. In the home, I had my own room (with a balcony) and the toilet etc., was up to western standards. In the mornings, I would accompany the boy to school, then have some time for myself, and later would pick him up again. The kid had a lot of after-school classes, so I would often find myself in the car with the father and the kid just talking random things in English. The boy was 7 years old, by the way.

Every week I had 1,5 days off, which mostly meant meeting up with the other au pairs in Chinese classes, hanging out, exploring, etc. Every month, there is a whole weekend off, where you could go out to party or go on small travels.

When my 6-month program finished, I started an internship at the agency, which was an awesome experience. To this day, I really cherish all the memories with the au pairs, my colleagues, and the family. It wasn't always easy, and of course, there is some sort of culture shock, but I would definitely do it again!