It depends on the time frame and the destination that you want to go. for example: most european families are looking for an au pair for the school months (September - May). If this is the time you're interested in going, then you will likely hear sooner rather than later because the families are very eager to secure you as an au pair and get to know you. I was matched within 2 weeks of completing...
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It's not common for the families to have male au pairs. Throughout my 3 months abroad I didn't meet any. However, it depends on the city you go to and the gender of the kids you're working for. I'm sure certain families are specifically looking for a male au pair.
Meeting au pairs is the easiest thing in the world! Just from joining with smaller earth, you will automatically be put into a facebook group of au pairs who are in the same city as you. All you have to do is send out a quick message basically saying that you just got to your city, you'd love to meet people, etc. As soon as you do that, you will get people messaging you right away to meet up...
My favourite trip was to Lisbon, Portugal. Madrid is so central in Europe that travelling on weekends is so easy. I spent 3 days in Lisbon and although the weather wasn't great, there was so much touristy stuff to do. We went on a walking tour where we saw the city's major landmarks, and we also did a pub crawl where we met people from all over the world. Overall, Lisbon is definetly a city you...
You have a pretty wide variety! From my experience, there are more families looking for au pairs than there are au pairs. In Spain especially it is very common for families to have them so there will most likely always be another option if you do not like the original family you are assigned to. So basically what I'm trying to say is that you have a very big choice! If you don't like something in...
It depends on the time frame and the destination that you want to go. for example: most european families are looking for an au pair for the school months (September - May). If this is the time you're interested in going, then you will likely hear sooner rather than later because the families are very eager to secure you as an au pair and get to know you. I was matched within 2 weeks of completing...