Bethany from England tells us about her arrival in Madrid

We can unfortunately no longer accept further applications at the moment. You can find a list of Au Pair agencies in Spain at www.agenciasaupairaepa.es who will be happy to help you.

 

Hi Au Pair Conecta, 
I am fine thank you, it was nice to hear from you and just had a quick look at those documents which I am sure I will find very useful. It is my first roper day 'working' today and so far so good. I feel like I have settled in with the family very well and they have from the start made me feel like one of the family and are all lovely people. They showed my round the neighborhood and informed me of all the rules, routines etc the first couple of days so when it came to putting it into practice this morning with the children I was pretty confident and certain of what to do.  I also had the opportunity to meet some other family members as the cousins cam to stay this weekend and both are beautiful children so I was quite busy entertaining and helping 4 children however they were all lovely and tried very hard with their English. I also met the Uncle and Aunty who do not speak a lot of English so this was a good experience too, hopefully by the end of my time here I can have more than just small talk with them and maybe even a whole Spanish conversation?! 
I have quite a lot of free time during the day at the moment whilst children are at school but it allows me to do some uni work and contact home, friends ect. The family are offering me Spanish lesson too which this week I have for 3 hours on Wednesday and Friday with a family friend so I ma very grateful of that and although i have done a little Spanish before, it will greatly improve my confidence and ability. I was proud of myself though as I went to the shop this morning to buy bread by myself and managed it all in Spanish! 
I had a bit of trouble sorting my mobile the first few days as I presumed it would automatically register with the Spanish network however it did not. I was a it worried and felt a bit lost without it however I got in contact with network provider in England this morning and it is all sorted so this makes me feel a bit better. 
At the moment I am very happy and quite relaxed and I know that in the hands of this family I will be well looked after. 
Bethany.