Hi girls,

Very glad to share my experience in US with you all.

I have been here 3 weeks. I am happy, excited, astonished, and a little homesick.

In US, I have to take care of myself---on the plane, in the training school and in my “new house”. Everything here is new, especially when English is around me 24 hours every day, so my brain was very very tired at the beginning. I don’t know how to order my dinner, because I don’t know what it is. And they speak very fast, so I can’t follow. But I am much better now. I believe every non-English au-pair has the same experience. So it just takes some time to get used to it.

Here, I have many new friends, which are from Brazil, Russia, Germany, Korea, etc. thought I don’t have any Chinese friends, and I never feel lonely. In the training school, we studied together, had meals together, sang the song together and went to the pub together. The NYC trip was great---times square, top of rock, especially on the ferry.

The families are very nice. They help me prepare everything, including the international phone card and all the daily necessities and, care what I want and what I think of. I went to west palm beach in Florida last week. It is very warm there. I swam in the pool, played with the kids, attended the American birthday party and tried the Jewish food. I got a lot of special experience staying with the family.

Sometimes, I am a little homesick. It doesn’t matter. Call my mum and dad, and friends in China or in US, and share my photos and feeling on line, and use webcam. So I don’t think I am far from my hometown, and I still contact them frequently.

The au-pair program gives me new life---new friends, new food, new tri, English…

Hope more and more Chinese girls can join us, and we can raise our red star flag yelling “We are from China” in the training school.