* E-mails trocados com a familia de Utretch *

Aqui eu irei postar apenas os emails que eu e a familia de Utretch trocamos até agora.

Eu:
Hello dear family! 

I'm looking for a nice host family to live my au pair 
year, and I was reading your profile family, and I 
really like you all. 

I have over 6 years of experience with children and 
love working with them. 

You can Also look for my video application here -> 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V7_9_R_5CQ 

I am registered with the agency Travel Active. 

And I wonder if you are interested in my profile. If 
so, it will be a pleasure to know you better, and 
clarify any doubts in 
relation to my profile. 

Big hug, 

Barbara

Host: 
Dear Barbara, thanks for showing interest in our family. I loved your video. You sound like a warm-hearted, sweet, adventurous, and well motivated young woman/au pair. We like hearing you are a family-focussed person, and we are happy to help with your language skills (we would also pay for language lessons), and show you our culture and country. 
We live in a fun and beautifull city, in the middle of The Netherlands. From here it is easy 
to explore The Netherlands by bike and public transport. For instance, you are in Amsterdam in half an hour. 
We are a happy, positive and easy going family of 4, enjoying life together. 
We are looking for an au pair for a full year, starting mid July. If that is a possiblity for you and you have interest in our family, please reply:). We are very curious to learn more about you, since you sound like a great match for our family. Can you tell us what your expectations are from your hostfamily? What do you find important in the family that you work for? And what kind of educations have you had so far? 
Please also ask us any questions if you are interested in us, I will be happy to answer them, and if you like we can also talk to you on Skype soon:). 
Kind regards, Barbara (and the rest of us)

Eu: 
Hello Barbara! 

I was very happy to read your mail this morning. You seem to be a very kind person. 

I read your profile, and really feel very interested in knowing more about you and your 
family. 

I'm very anxious to find a good family, and have a perfect match. I have many experiences 
with children, as you can read in my profile. And by this, if I can find a family for a good 
match, I'm sure we'll both have a great year. 

I know that there is no perfection, but as a good family for me, I wish this family be 
cheerful, positive, open-minded, friendly and especially communicative. I think to work and 
live together for a year, a good relationship,the communication is key. 

I am a very open-minded and communicative woman completely. I am a positive person
and easily accept constructive criticism. So I know that depend on me, I can have a good 
year, with any family. 

I graduated in technologist in Logistics. I graduated 3 years ago. 


I have some questions for you. 

First about the children. 


How is their daily schedule like? 

What do they like to do? 

Do they practice sports? If YES, which ones? 

What do they like to eat? 

Would I be responsible for their dinner, lunch and breakfast every day? 

What time do they go to bed? 

Are they allowed to watch tv/listen to music/play video games? 

Are they allergic to something? 

Now about you (parents) 

Where do you work and what do you do? 

What qualities do you think your au pair should have? 

Have you ever had an au pair before? What do you mind if I talk to her or send her an e- 
mail? 

How was her relationship with your kids? 

Do you have any house rules? What are they? 

Are my friends allowed to come over to visit me? 

What activities do you expect me to do with the children? 

How will my schedule be like?Will I have the weekends off? 

I hope to hear from you very soon. 

You can feel free to add me on skype, facebook or whatsapp. 

Skype: xxxxxxxxx
Facebook: xxxxxxxxxxx
Whatsapp/Phone-number: xxxxxxxxxx

Have a great time over there, 

Bárbara

Host:
Thank you for your quick reply:). I see you are very dedicated and serieus 
in finding a good host family. That is good! 
Communication is very important to us too. With our au pair we had a 
weekly family meeting for the first months, and that worked well to get to 
know each other and of course to inform our au pair how we like to raise 
our children, what we find important etc. Also their will be cultural 
differences, and open communication is needed to understand each 
other and it also makes it more interesting. 
We have good experiences with our current au pair, she is like a big, 
responsible sister to our kids. She is part of our family. 
We can share our schedule with you, but basically you take care of our 
children one full day a week when we both work, on other weeks days 
you mostly help in the morning and before dinner. And there are few 
hours to do laundry and cleaning. 
All nights and weekends you are off. We both have regular daytime jobs, 
so our schedule is the same every week. We do however expect you to 
be flexible at times, and so are we. 
We have house rules, like we want you home at 23.00h on working nights 
(to be fit the next day for work) and 02.00h on non-workingdays. You can 
have visitors, and you can have girlfriends sleep over at times, but we 
always want to know in advance and meet them. You are free to do 
whatever you like in your free time, but you do need to inform us where 
you go and who you are with (because we are responsible for your 
wellbeing too). And no smoking and drugs at all. We will provide you with 
a smartphone, so you can always contact us. I think those are the most 
important house rules. We have a written manual with the au pair's 
responsiblitities and the house rules. 
Barbara, we are willing to answer all your questions, but I think it is good 
to do that in a Skype meeting. Are you maybe available tomorrow 
afternoon (Friday) at 4 - 4.30 pm? Than it is 9 - 9.30 pm here in The 
Netherlands. I hope you do. Please let me know. 
For now a good day, Barbara

Eu:
Barbara, thank you for the quick response too! 

So Iam really more interested in your family from 
now. Because I think we have a lot in common. 
Thank you for clarifying some of my doubts. You 
can also feel free to ask me anything. 

It will be a pleasure to talk to you tomorrow by 
Skype at the appointed time. I have total 
availability to talk with you at the time you want. 

I'm really excited to meet my future host family. I 
always dreamed of learning about new cultures, 
and I always enjoyed working with children. So be 
au pair, will be a huge adventure for my life. I think 
we'll quite enjoy our time together. 

Barbara, just one more question. This question is 
very important to me. As I said in the first e-mail I 
sent to you, I'm registered at the agency Travel 
active. So I wonder if this is ok for you? 

Big hug, 

I see you soon!

Host:
Hello Barbara, 
We are going to Skype you tonight (for you in afternoon). Travel active is 
going to call me today, I am going to ask about their service since I do not 
know them yet. So I can tell you about that later. 
Looking forward to our online meeting:). 
Have nice day, Barbara

Oh, one more thing...I see that their are different timezones in Brasil, so it 
is good to know what zone you are in/what the time difference is between 
our countries. I thought 5 hours but it could be more or less. Where are 
you from? 
We would like to Skype you between 8 and 9.30 pm central european 
time.

Eu:
Good evening *-* 

I am from Rio de Janeiro. You are 5 hours more 
then here. So, will be 4pm to when we will meeting 
on Skype. 

I am anxious to talk with you today. 

Hope everything is gonna be great to you all there. 

See you Barbara!

Host:
Thanks! Talk to you later. All great here, gonna wake up kids now from 
nappin.

Então, foram esses emails que trocamos, até o primeiro skype. Ah, como esta escrito lá em cima pela host, uma das regras, é a au pair estar em casa durante a semana ate as 23hrs e nos Finais de semana até as 2hrs da manha. 

Pois bem, isso seria um problema pra mim, pois nao quero sair e ter ficar controlando o horario de voltar pra casa. Então, no skype de hoje, conversei com ela sobre isso, e graças a Deus, eles são super flexiveis em relação a isso, e tudo já se resolveu.

Por enquanto, é isso!