Flight details

Good morning,

I am on my way to Frankfurt right now to grab the last things I need like some magnets from Frankfurt and a little suitcase for my hand luggage and a lot of other little things. I have ordered a lot of stuff online already e.g. a new jacket and a new bikini. 

But now back to the topic I mentioned in the caption: I have got my flight details on Wednesday which was even eleven days before I depart! You all know that I am in the WhatsApp group with the other AuPairs and one of them noticed the Email with the details straight away and told us. I was very nervous and checked my emails immediately but I haden’t got one! First, I thought that they may have forgotten me but then other girls wrote that they hadn’t got one as well so I was relieved. Eventually we, who hadn’t got the flight information where the ones who will fly on Sunday already. But do not worry, we got it two hours later. One can see when and with which airline one flies and who accompanies one. I fly alone. My preference would have been if at least one would fly then too so I am not (uncertain) alone. The next day six girls depart from Frankfurt. My check in is at 8 am so I have to get up early but not very early because we need only 30 minutes to the airport. One thing I really like about flying on Sunday is that I will arrive at JFK while the other ones will arrive in Newark so I am going to see a bit of New York already on my drive to the hotel. 

Originally my aunt wanted to say goodbye at the airport but she rather goes to church.

I realised that I had my first lasts already like my last grocery shopping with my mum, my last meeting with my aunt, the last time eating my favorite food. Wow, I still cannot believe I will leave in only 8 days!

My host family has wrote me now and asked if I needed any help and if they could get my driving record and license for the insurance. I requested the record yesterday but I doubt it will arrive before my departure. 

Only 17 days

Hey guys!

It gets more and more real! Today arrived the last gift for the boys. I have now all presents for the boys but still no clue what I could give the host parents! Sigh. 

My mum tells me everyday that she will miss me and that she does not know how she will survive the year without me. That’s so cute but makes me feel bad! 

Moreover, I got the email with which I can book the New York City tour in which I will participate of course! 

Our au pair chat grows as well. We are 8 girls at the moment, not only from Germany but from Austria as well. We all do not depart from the same airport and not even on the same day, some (like me) already on the 15th October because of the driving course and some one day later.

I have had my first goodbye already yesterday. My uncle came over to give me my birthday present and say goodbye. He hopes I have a good time, he would never leave Germany for a year. On Sunday my aunt and her family will visit us. I won’t see them afterwards so there is my next goodbye! Ahhh, I hate it. 

I am already preparing my departure. I cleaned up my room and threw a lot of things away so it is not so dirty and messed up when I come back, I cleaned my car because it won’t be cleaned for over a year now and I ordered my travel case for my documents. Yesterday I copied all important documents so my parents have some copies, my host family will have some copies and I will have some copies because I have to carry an ID, my Visa, my DS2019 and my passport always with me. 

XOXO Becca

Only 17 days

Hey guys!

It gets more and more real! Today arrived the last gift for the boys. I have now all presents for the boys but still no clue what I could give the host parents! Sigh. 

My mum tells me everyday that she will miss me and that she does not know how she will survive the year without me. That’s so cute but makes me feel bad! 

Moreover, I got the email with which I can book the New York City tour in which I will participate of course! 

Our au pair chat grows as well. We are 8 girls at the moment, not only from Germany but from Austria as well. We all do not depart from the same airport and not even on the same day, some (like me) already on the 15th October because of the driving course and some one day later.

I have had my first goodbye already yesterday. My uncle came over to give me my birthday present and say goodbye. He hopes I have a good time, he would never leave Germany for a year. On Sunday my aunt and her family will visit us. I won’t see them afterwards so there is my next goodbye! Ahhh, I hate it. 

I am already preparing my departure. I cleaned up my room and threw a lot of things away so it is not so dirty and messed up when I come back, I cleaned my car because it won’t be cleaned for over a year now and I ordered my travel case for my documents. Yesterday I copied all important documents so my parents have some copies, my host family will have some copies and I will have some copies because I have to carry an ID, my Visa, my DS2019 and my passport always with me. 

XOXO Becca

I am going mad

HeLlo,

UsUallY I am A verY paTienT pErsOn bUt waiTing fOR a NEw EmAil kIlls Me. I caN’t sTOp tHiNking aBouT it. It IS a toTal DisTraCtion I caN’t fOcUs on ThE iMpoRtanT thIngS lIKe stUdYiNg! HELP! RiGht Now I aM oNEhuNdred PerCenT sUrE tHat I wiLL neVer fInD a HoST faMilY! I gOt tO tHe PoInt I wOuLd tAke AnyOnE! You SeE I Am eXaggErAtiNg. I Am OnlY vIsIbLe fOR poTentIal hOsT faMiliEs SinCe 4 wEeKs aNd onE dAY (ThatS 29 DAys). OkAy, I aM a Bit dEsPerAte bUt tHeRe is OnlY one mOnTh leFt To mY preFerrEd dePaRtuRE dAtE! I hAvE tO StarT thInKinG oF a pLaN B. BuT I wAnT to bE An AuPAir so BaDLy! I woN’t GiVe uP hoPe. I sTiLl hOpe tHat I Get aN eMaIl of MY drEAm hOst FaMIly sOOn. 😉

Emails

It starts again. Now that i do not have any family suggestions anymore I am very scared and nervous to check my Emails. Nervous beceause there could be an email about a new interested family and scared because there could be no email. Sometimes I check my emails minutely and sometimes I do not look for them for hours. If I do not check them often then the possibility that i got one is higher (no, it is not, but I chose to believe it). I still have no clue which time of the day is most likely to receive an email, I mean I got one at night, one at morning, one at early afternoon and two at evening. 

Well, I checked my emails right now and I am very disappointed, there are just some advertisement emails. The waiting kills me, although the host families who chose another Au Pair wrote me that my application is great and I will easily find a host family I doubt it. My friend, who got approved to be seen by the host families three weeks later than I had already four suggestions and is in contact with a family she really likes and who is going to ask her to be her Au Pair. So frustrating although I am very happy for her.