The Online Application

Hello Everyone!

I know I haven't updated this for a long time, but nothing exciting about my journey as au pair has happened, but nevertheless I'll be writting long post about certain topics, about my experience and what I have read, and before I start with the topic of this entry, a little bit of advertisment, so I making a new blog about the things I like and everything that happens in my daily life that not necesarily has to do with the Au Pair experience here is the link obsidiancircuit.blogspot.com/ and that will be the end of the comercial.

Ok, so the online application. When I went to the information meeting my regional manager told me about the online application and that some girls do it in two or three days. I did it in a week more less, but right now I kind of regret that, there are some answers I would like to change mostly because is what the families wiil read about you and that answers will help them to decide if you're the perfect au pair for their family, so be really thoughtful about every answer and if you could have someone to read it first, that will tell you if something sound odd or you need to be more specific, because we come from other country and something it may seem obvious in our country or in our life may not be for the host family.

Another little addvice is that you try to say yes at everything, that way it will be easier to find a host family and it would be a great way of meeting new people that otherwise you wouldn't be able to.

So as I was saying my sister, the same that went with me to the information meeting and that from now on I will refering to as D, well she helped my with my online application especially with the grammar that I'm still trying to figure out. Anyway there are a WHOLE LOT of question that you need to answer from your educational background to any disase you have had, passing through your childcare, driving and swimming experience. Also you may want your childcare references forms with you so all the information match together.

And I think that is it, but if you want to know something more about it feel free to ask, and in the next post I'll be talking about the references forms or the driving experience I'm not that sure about which one will come first... Anywaway, hope you had like the post and Keep smiling :D

86 questions about me!

Hello everyone!

Woo! So many questions! I think this would be a great way to make this blog a little funnier, you can copy and paste this questions and leave your answers I would love to read them all! And I must say that making and readind test are one of my favorite things to do, So I hope you enjoy this.

1) Name: Mariana :D
2) Sex: Girl
3) City: Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche.
4) Age: 19
5) Sign: Scorpio
6) Birth Date: 04/11/91
7) Blood type: A+
8) Favorite Book: Secret D'Etat: Le Roi des Halles by Juliette Benzoni
9) Favorite song: It's changing all the time, but right now I think it is Doctor What - Chameleon Circuit.
10) Favorite animal: Cat ^.^
11) Favorite Singer: Elvis Presley
12) Snow or Rain? Both
13) Favorite food: Hot dogs yummy :D
14) Favorite dessert: Cheese cake with strawberrys, or anything with fresh strawberrys.
15) Guilty pleasure?: Shoes!! I love them, but I only have like four pair of shoes that are really mine U.u the other ones are from my mom or my sister, we have the same shoe size xD
16) Favorite drink: coke with lemon ice cream
17) Facebook or twitter?: Facebook
18) Chocolate or vanilla?: Vanilla all the way
19) Black chocolate or white chocolate: white
20) Favorite ice cream: Vanilla or pistacho
21) Pets: 5 cats :D
22) Names: Macoy, Chimis, Mica, Mini1 and Mini2
23) Do you sleep with stuffed animals?: Yes, Lorenzo, he is my green teddy bear. :)
24) Favorite day: Tuesday
25) Favorite season: Autumn
26) Something you hate?: when my hands are wet but the rest of my body is not.
27) Shoes size: 5.5 or 6
28) Cold or hot?: Cold
29) How many sibings do you have?: 3, 2 sisters and 1 brother
30) Dog or cat?: Car
31) Favorite language: English, Frech, Japanese and German
32) Favorite subject in your last year of school?: Creative writing and swiming classes.
33) Favorite city: New Orleans, London, Tokyo, Venice and Paris
34) Wine or beer?: Both
35) Roller Coster, Afraid of them or love them?: Both again!
36) Physics or chemestry? Neither ¬¬
37) Favorite fruit?: strawberys!
38) Favorite vegetable? Carrots O.o
39) Favorite word: sweet or Xochit and Quetzal
40) Most used word: Me lleva.
41) Favorite Actor: Johnny Depp and Jackie Chan
42) Favorite actress: Evanna Lynch and Drew Berrymore
43) Dream place to live: Near a lake
44) Favorite bug: None!
45) The first thing you see in a boy: His smile
46) Chocolates or flowers? Flowers :D
47) 10 letters or one e-mail?: It depends on what they say
48) Have you ever hit someone?: No.
49) Favorite hair color: Bright red or pink
50) If you could have any hair color, wich one would it be? Pink
52) Last book you read?: Anita Blake: Cerulean Sins
53) Day or night?: Night
54) Favorite month?: Octuber or November
55) Have you ever been in love?: yes
56) How many times?: 3
57) Your dream in life?: Being a writer, teacher and mother.
58) Your best Girl friend?: Fer and Citlally
59) Your best Boy friend?: Adan
60) Favorite subject: Literature
61) Blind, deaf or dumb?: Dumb
62) Favorite CD?: Right now Lady Gaga's Monster Ball
63) Favorite cartoon?: Sailor Moon
64) Favorite TV Serie?: Criminal Minds
65) Favorite TV Show?: The Graham Norton Show
66) What is the first thought in your mind when you wake up?: I have to turn off the alarm U.u
67) Best feeling in the world?:
68) Worst feeling in the world?: envidia
69) What's under your bed?: shoes
70) Nicknames: Mary_lunita or MaryLovecraft
71) Dream car: Ford Mustan '69 in white
72) Dream motocycle: Vespa
73) Favorite sport: Swimming!
74) Favorite sport to watch: Soccer :D
75) Favorite Artist: Gaudi
76) The last movie you watch? Pirates of the caribbean 4
77) Favorite video: The world is not enough - Garbage
78) Favorite movie: Aladin
79) Your biggest fear?: Giant bugs
80) Favorite number?: 8
81) Favorite Hour?: 4:00 pm
82) Favorite candy?: lollipops
83) Favorite color: pink
84) Something you will never forget?: when I met MCR
85) Have you break someone's heart?: I don't think so :S
86) Favorite piece of clothing you have? dresses.


And that's it. See you next time & Keep smiling :)

Me... An Au Pair?

Hi everyone!

And welcome to my blog. Like ohter blogs this is about the Au Pair experience and how this is happening to me and anything else about me, my life or something else I feel like posting.

First I'm going to talk you about how I take the decision of becoming an Au Pair, which is why we are all here, (we are already one, or we're still in the matching process.)

It all began on January of this year, 2011, I was studying English literature but decided that it wasn't the right choice for me, so I drop it out until I could find out what I would like to study and be for the rest of my life.

Meanwhile I started to search for a job too and I thought thet being a babbysitter would be something easy to find and enjoyable (How wrong I was to think it was easy!) But in my search I found a link to the Cultural Care page in Mexico, so why not? I read all about it in the page and decided I would be going to the information meeting next Friday. By that time I was living in Mexico City with my sisters so one of them accompanied me to the meeting. At the end of the day I was really excited, it was a great opportunity that is was willing to do at any cost. The next step? Talking with my parents.

The following weekend my dad was coming over in a bussines and not so bussines trip, so I just told him that I wanted to talk with him about something important, because I really wanted to tell him all about it face to face. So we went to drink a cup of coffee and an ice cream and I told him everything about the Cultural Care program and being an Au Pair, I was relieved when he said: "Yes,let's go on monday morning to pay the inscription." So on Monday I went to pay and I was officially in the program.

Now it was the time to make my online application and learn how to drive, but that is until  the next post. I hoped you have liked this little piece of my blog and feel free to leave comments, I really want to hear about your experiences as well. See you next time & Keep smiling :)