When the Au Pair Comes To Stay

Morgans

It would have been a far happier story if she was able to stick it out longer than 10 days in a second family, and made the first family's mother look even more unreasonable. I'm sure there is some wastage of au pairs due to them not liking the job - be that the host families fault or the au pair themselves.

Far more logical to say that au pairing wasnt for her, than guessing out of thin air she probably she mistook a piece of advice as criticism, or the new family was worse, backed up by your experience in a call-centre.

syklops

Morgans wrote: »

Far more logical to say that au pairing wasnt for her, than guessing out of thin air she probably she mistook a piece of advice as criticism, or the new family was worse, backed up by your experience in a call-centre.

Read what I wrote, I didn't guess out of thin air that she mistook a piece of advice. I said people who have gone through an ordeal often give up on a simpler task if it reminds them of the ordeal.

I agree with you, maybe she did decide Au Pairing wasn't for her. I was simply proffering a theory as to why she decided it wasn't for her.

ejmaztec

syklops wrote: »

Read what I wrote, I didn't guess out of thin air that she mistook a piece of advice. I said people who have gone through an ordeal often give up on a simpler task if it reminds them of the ordeal.

I agree with you, maybe she did decide Au Pairing wasn't for her. I was simply proffering a theory as to why she decided it wasn't for her.

That's far more logical in her case. It could also well be that the agency had a lousy selection of placements left.

Morgans

ejmaztec wrote: »

That's far more logical in her case. It could also well be that the agency had a lousy selection of placements left.

What is suggested might have played out, but i think its far less likely or logical to believe that she quit the second au pair job because she mistook advice for criticism rather than she realised that having been wtih two families that au pairing in Ireland wasnt for her. Its hard to know what is the norm for au pairs to expect even from the series.

From the program, she seemed eager to see Dublin and being put with a family in Derry may not have suited, especially for someone trying to learn english. It might not have been in the city. Assuming that the second family were the reason for the girl quitting as an au pair makes no sense to me. Ten days certainly wasnt a long time to see if any difficulties with the family could be resolved.

ejmaztec

Morgans wrote: »

What is suggested might have played out, but i think its far less likely or logical to believe that she quit the second au pair job because she mistook advice for criticism rather than she realised that having been wtih two families that au pairing in Ireland wasnt for her. Its hard to know what is the norm for au pairs to expect even from the series.

From the program, she seemed eager to see Dublin and being put with a family in Derry may not have suited, especially for someone trying to learn english. It might not have been in the city. Assuming that the second family were the reason for the girl quitting as an au pair makes no sense to me. Ten days certainly wasnt a long time to see if any difficulties with the family could be resolved.

She obviously got her fingers burned in the first place, so probably just wanted to get the hell back to France, and had probably made up her mind that she wasn't going to hang around in Derry. Her own home also seemed a lot better than the kip in Rathfarnham in which she was incarcerated.:eek:

It could have been any number of reasons, (we never got to see the Derry family) but I too would never have liked to learn English in the North.:cool:

syklops

ejmaztec wrote: »

She obviously got her fingers burned in the first place, so probably just wanted to get the hell back to France, and had probably made up her mind that she wasn't going to hang around in Derry. Her own home also seemed a lot better than the kip in Rathfarnham in which she was incarcerated.:eek:

It could have been any number of reasons, (we never got to see the Derry family) but I too would never have liked to learn English in the North.:cool:

I think the 2 worse places in the world to learn english would be northern Ireland and Cork/Kerry.

2 friends of mine met these 2 girls in cork and were trying to chat them up. They were talking to them for about 2 hours before they realised they weren't cork girls. They were polish but had picked up thick cork accents.

Imagine spending a summer learning english only to find out that the only people who understood what you said were people in the area you were staying. That would be sickening!

ejmaztec

syklops wrote: »

I think the 2 worse places in the world to learn english would be northern Ireland and Cork/Kerry.

2 friends of mine met these 2 girls in cork and were trying to chat them up. They were talking to them for about 2 hours before they realised they weren't cork girls. They were polish but had picked up thick cork accents.

Imagine spending a summer learning english only to find out that the only people who understood what you said were people in the area you were staying. That would be sickening!

Being a plastic Paddy with an English accent, and living in Kerry, I can quite see the problem. I could never understand why there's an annual influx of Spanish kids coming to Kerry to improve their English language skills, but even learning English in Kerry's 100 times better than going up North and having your ear-drums melted. :eek:

Diddler1977

Good episode this week.

The family and the au pair were all lovely!

Jumpy

ejmaztec wrote: »

, but even learning English in Kerry's 100 times better than going up North and having your ear-drums melted. :eek:

Repeat after me "harrs an harrs in the parr sharr"

Morgans

nice au pair + nice family + well brought up kids = Boring program.

garminguy

surely there s something morally and illegal paying someone 90 euros a week plus lodgings ,which wouldn,t cost any more than 100 euro at a push.
its not like they are on crap wages.

Diddler1977

garminguy wrote: »

surely there s something morally and illegal paying someone 90 euros a week plus lodgings ,which wouldn,t cost any more than 100 euro at a push.
its not like they are on crap wages.

My sister worked on the J1 visa in a US summer camp. Paid about 90 dollars plus room and board. The camp directors obviously made a lot of money from this cheap labour.

She didn't mind - she was going for the experience.

Most au pairs are looking to learn English while working as an au pair. It is much cheaper to do this then to go to a language school.

It works for both the au pair and the family.

Presume the au pairs flights are paid for by the agency that places them? Does this agency get a fee from the host family?