fredag 7 november 2008

Usa, My new home

I arrived to Newark pretty sad over leaving my family, but at the same time exited over meeting my hostfamily. I was told to look after a pair of pink pants, the woman who was gonna pick me up was my hostdad ex wife. Then finally I saw her and she was also quite a personality, she was very outgoing and talked in a way that made everything sound fantastic, Like oh mygosh u look italian, Oh my gosh u r so lucky, oh my gosh that smells so good and so on.. U rarely meet sweds like that..
at first we drove to get my bags at Sues place and then we went off to my new home. The house was white with blue windowshutters..a pretty house.
My host family were an American dad, a swedish mum two twins at the age of one and a half, and a dog. Then the ex wife was there alot and the dad also had two older sons not living at home. and then they also had a nanny that I was gonna work with.
Not many days after my arrivel I got to meet other au pairs in the area at a Lcc meeting, we went to starbucks together a lot after that.
I had to work from 7 am to 10 am and then 5 pm to 8 pm, and on saturdays. When I first got there I did not like it that much because I felt I knew nobody and I could not sleep cause the kids cried alot at night. But then we I got to know other au pairs it all became easier. It is hard to sum it all together, I was with that family for about a month before I moved to another, during that time I was lot at Starbucks, visited Sue, went to a new church, went to NYC and I had my birthday there too.
The question that I get alot is: what went wrong?
I think with this family a lot of things went wrong, it was not that they were bad people really, more that I got there under bad circumstances when both me and they were stressed out by all the new things. It is hard to put what happened in words so this is what u will have to settle with.
Anyways, it is hard to have move again when u just feel u got to know people so I prayed that I would get a new family close by, and I did. They lived closer to church and closer to Sue, so I was really glad.

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