Mom I don't wanna lay on the couch all day!

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Mom I don’t wanna lay on the couch all day!

December 2014: Graduation from my bachelor program

January 2015: I was extremely bored and I saw nothing good coming to me before the beginning of a master the following September

This was my time line, being bored doing nothing until the new courses would have actually started. I am not that kind of person that lays on the couch all day, eating mom’s food, and using mom’s money. For this reasons I started checking what I could do to make a good use out of this huge amount of spare time

Looking at all kinds of job offers and internships I’ve been suggested from my sister to try to find an Au-Pair job somewhere in Europe, so that I could learn a new language, and considering I already knew English it would have been an easy choice.

I go on a few websites and I make my profile. A few weeks later a lovely family sent me a message and we started a conversation that brought me to get everything ready and start a new life in Bad Soden (near Frankfurt) in the coming February for just 5 months.

I was very scared. What did I say yes to?

Was I prepared to jump to someone else home and be the educator, cook, entertainer, cleaner, driver and motivator of 2 little girls? Was I actually able to do so?

Of course, this is not what appears in the job offers but this is what they actually expect you to be, an older lovely sister that helps around the house.

All I knew was that I was going to be in an American/Indian family in Germany, and this was pretty much it! Girls full of activities and not used to get bored and entertain themselves, parents with apparently not many requests but driving and cleaning the kids room.

I looked all over Pinterest for little games and nice activities I could probably do with the 2 little girls (4 and 9 years old) I looked for what I could make for lunch and what I could teach them. I wanted to be prepared! I even got them a little gift and while I was getting ready mentally my suitcase got bigger and bigger with winter clothes and summer clothes.


After saying goodbye to my huge typical Italian family. 

I was ready to leave on February 21st 2015

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