You know you're an Au Pair in the USA when...

...you always introduce yourself with : 'Hi! my name is (your name), I'm from (country) and I have (amount of children you are taking care of) children!!'
...everybody is greeting you with a 'Hi.How are you!' and you can't respond fast enough, so you say it first!
...the worst thing is, when the dad is working from home
...you know what a S'MORE is.
...you spent all your money at the MALL and you still have nothing to wear
...you hate Dora, The Wiggles and Thomas
...you say silly instead of stupid
...you go to PLAYDATES
...you've seen more movies in one month than in your whole life at home
...you drive over 30 minutes to a friend and you think it's not far
...you only have other Au Pairs as your friends
..you say 'like' and 'totally' every three words
...someone has asked you stupid questions like: 'do you have cars in your country?' - 'You don't have Valentine's day?' - 'Where is your country?'
...you don't think it's wrong to have cake AND ice cream.
...you park as close to the store as possible so you don't have to walk even one yard too far
...you cherish moments of silence more than ever before
...you notice yourself saying 'GOOD JOB' a hundred times a day
...you wonder why you slept the whole night long so uncomfortable and you notice the next morning, you slept on a barbie, a lollypop, sandtoys etc.
... you need to be creative to find new punishments because a time-out doesn't work anymore ;-)
... you have to admit to mistakes you never did or put the blame on you day for day
...you're sure you don't want own kids within the next 100 years
...you're ready to drink anytime of the day
...you start to love disney movies again and can copy every passage of them
...you've learned what it means to be patient
...you know what a LCC is
...you know that you should never SHAKE A BABY!!!
...you take a nap, after you dropped of the kids at school (after being up for just 2h :-D)
...you are DRIVING to the busstop to pick up your kids, which is only 200 meters from your house.
...the kids call you mum cause you spend too much time with them
..... you think $160 every weekend just for shopping and coffee are not that much
... one cup of coffee doesn`t make you awake anymore, it just makes you alive.
..you or your friends are KELLERKINDER!!!!
...you miss the good ol' days when you were able to go to the bakery and get real bread w/ real butter ( not that American shit called bread..haha)
...you don't walk into the bank, you use the drive inn to get your money
...you use Purell instead of washing your hands
...instead of singing song from the radio your singing childrens songs
5 Responses
  1. Anônimo Says:

    oi stephani, tudo bom, estava acompanhando o seu blog e o blog da sua prima sem saber, fui com voce ao clube au pair na stb, fiquei muito em saber que ja tinha dado inicio aos processo do app,vi que esta tendo problemas com seu pai em relacao a viagem espero que de tudo certo, vou mantendo contato. Um Abraco Vanessa


  2. Priscila Says:

    Ahhh não!! vou ler só amanhã. kkkk
    bjinhusss


  3. Priscila Says:

    fiotinha piriquete??
    é vc sua lora pega coreano..ahuahauahauahu
    que mal gosto..hauahauahauahau

    bjinhu


  4. Priscila Says:

    hauahauahuahau
    opssss
    no coments....


  5. Hahahaha
    Estava lendo o textinho e me matando de rir pq eh a mais pura verdade tudo isso!!!!
    hahahaha.....
    Beijos