Placement, Study, Countdown, Skype, Vacation

Placement papers and books

Well, well, well. Placement papers arrived Wednesday along with a book called “Dear babysitter handbook”, Euraupairs au pair guide, brochure about the program, a “what to know” brochure and a printed version of host family profile.  

“Dear babysitter handbook” is a good tool, you have pages where you are supposed to write all information about contact persons, children’s ages – diseases  etc., Doctor and hospital numbers, emergency numbers, CPR, how to give medicin, housrules, basicly everything! But it also goes trough all ages from 0-12, with behaviour, tips and what to do.  

The idea is very good, and I think I will use  the pages with emergency numbers, contact information etc.  But personally I knew everything about the childrens ages. But I also have the experience with me. I know not to shake a baby, I know 3-5 year olds is testing and want to be independent. So I actually only need to read and remember what to do when different injuries comes up and when the child gets ill. It’s always good to refresh your memory. :)

The euraupair au pair guide and the two brochures is good to have, but was no news to me – I’m a person who check out what I’m signing up for. And did this research in December, January and Febuary. But I will read it once again and keep it. So if I suddenly forget what I’m up for, then I check ;)

The Host Family profile, is just a lot of information I already had but I also got the names of the different coordinators, the three closest colleges/universities.

Study

When I already have mentioned the study places I can continue with my so far research.  I have looked up the three places. And I have really worked hard to find out which courses they can offer me.  And I have to remember that I need 6 units to complete my program.

San Diego Mesa College:  It was very easy to find out what to search for. Future students à programs & courses. Then you can easily clich on the subjects, and read about specific courses and how many units.

Grossmont college: also easy to find. Apply and enrol à catalog à part five. The only thing is that my  computer only have manage to download ¼ of the catalog. But units is also shown. Very simple.

SDSU: This site is driving me nuts! It is so hard to find what I need. Such a long way when you don’t know what to look for! Well I hope I have found it, but can’t see the units and hope that minors is the same as courses.

I’m glad I don’t have to decide right away. Thinking about a lot of subjects to study I have thought about: Dance, Marketing, Communication, Spanish, German, business, all different kinds of arts and nutrition. But I’m waiting to the catalogs from 2012 will show.  

Countdown – NY then CA

A strange feeling is starting to take place in my stomack. And the countdown has slowly started. NY workshop is going to be a real hard start. I will arrive in the states, for the first time, need to get to the hostel, will meet my “roomies” and we are probably all just so exited, exhausted and hyped that we will go find the nearest Starbucks and then go to bed and have very little sleep and BANG the show begin. 4 days of training - from early in the morning to late in the evening.  In something I with a big chance already know. But the agency gave me the advice that I have to be active in classes, so I don’t get to bored. But I’m sure it’s going to be fun when I first get started.

And then it’s probably a flight with destination San Diego. And then I will meet my new family and start my adventure. Can’t wait!

Skype

Tomorrow I will Skype with my new family. We have agreed to have a “Skype-date” in the weekends so we can keep in touch and get to know each other better before my arrival. The only thing is that I need to find some kind of internet when I’m in Tenerife. I just checked the hotel information, and it’s possible to get wireless internet – for a smaller amount. But I need to check the internet signal before setting up the next “Skype-date”  I would be nice to Skype even though I’m on vacation. Because I have found out that there ain’t long, before I go. With this coming weekend, 9 weekends before take of from Denmark – pretty scary

Vacation

Well as I mentioned I will go to Tenerife. I will leave with my brother Tuesday and have 2 weeks on a luxury hotel, wellness and spa, children free. We have ordered massage and breakfast.The reason for no children choice is that I work with small children every single day. And there is a lot of screaming and crying in a work day – Since it’s not all of them who have a speaking language. So It’s not because I don’t like children. I just know that when I’m going to have my own children, I won’t be able to do this kind of vacation if they have to come. Children are more than welcome, just not in my hotel and in my pool for 2 weeks :)

Our room will head towards the pool and I just look forward spending some quality time with my brother before I leave. He will also go to Kosovo but only for 2½ month. But still non of us is home for Christmas. But that is probably for the best. It would be much harder if only one of us were home, without the other sibling. But I also really look forward to see how a real American Christmas turn out. Is it like the movies or is it something very different. And will I spend Christmas with my family?? Well at lot of questions, but time will show :)

I hope to do a little update from Tenerife. If not – have a great summer! I will be back in the fall.(September)