Bad very Bad

Ratings
Overall
1
Housing: 1
Support: 1
Fun: 1
Value: 1
Safety: 1
Review

Bad! Bad! Bad! Review from 2 former au pairs.

One of us were an au pair for a year in 2018 and the other one came to America on Jan 13th 2020 and came home march 18th 2020.

Let´s start with the Au pair school. First of all, you get into this au pair school in new york! your very tired and you might be jetlagged, but you have to wake up really early in the morning no matter how late your flight came in. the people you flew to the US with you think you will be able to talk with tomorrow since you are in a new country alone you are nervouse and want to make sure you will at least have some friends. but when you wake up you will find out that cultural care has a lot of ways to ruin that. everytime you get a new "friend" they seperate you from that person. you will every 5 hour stand alone again because you get seperated from the people you dont even know yet. but if you are from south america or south africa or south europe and you have 20 people from your country you are in good hands. but someone like me who is danish i was the only dane and i had noone i could be with, and trust me a group of 6 italians and 17 south africans they dont give a f*** about you. they also claim they put you in rooms with people going to your destination, yes they do but you never see this person cause they seperate you in everything beside your room, i never saw my fellow atlanta people until we were going to the aiport and i felt directly bullied by them cause i had never seen them during the week. the food is horrible and the rooms are the same. there is no lock in the bathroom and you share with 8 other people on both sides of the bathroom, very unpleasent.

you then have a flight to your destination, but because you only pay cultural care a fortune to become an au pair, they of course didnt buy so you can have your luggage with you, you have to do that yourself (100 dollars) :)

also your hostfamily pay around 110,000 dollares for you to get there! money you dont get! cultural care does! thats a lot of money you never see! so fair of course (not)
i was then in rematch which cultural care helped me absolut 0 with! cause they dont want you in rematch they want you home cause you have to pay your own ticket home so they get to keep the money they should have used on your ticket at the end of the year. and cultural care are of course impossible to get in contact with, cause you are only a young girl stuck in a new country so you dont need their help!!!
i tell you! i was in rematch for 1 and a half week! and i had no new matches! the reason for this is that cultural care didnt open my profile even though i told them many times and they said they had! but they didnt cause no families i talk to said i was available on the webside! so thankyou cultural care to use my money and not help me when i needed it! And i know everything happend with Covid-19 virus, but i was i America, homeless and tried to call the company and not a single time they picked up the phone. Not even ones.

really dont use this company they use you for the money, and you will stand alone in a new country with a horrible experience in new york! and might end up going back home without help from this ***** company!!

Would you recommend this program?
No, I would not
Year Completed
2020
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hate you cultural care.