Endlich wird mein Traum war. Ich werde für 1 Jahr als Au pair in den USA leben und arbeiten.
Am 4. Mai geht es los zur Orientation nach New Jersey und am 7. Mai geht es weiter nach North Carolina, wo ich meine Hostfamily persönlich kennen lernen werde.

Im Februar 2010 habe ich mich entschlossen mein Au Pair Jahr um 1 Jahr zu verlängern. Da ich leider nicht bei meiner ersten Familie bleiben konnte habe ich mit einer anderen Familie verlängert.


Das stammt von der Homepage eines anderen Au Pairs und passt so gut, das ich es jetzt mal hierher kopiert habe. 

"The paradox where everything and yet nothing is the same

A year will pass by and we will stand on the brink of returning to a world where we are surrounded by the paradox where everything and yet nothing is the same. In one or two months we will reluctantly give our hugs and, fighting the tears, say good-bye to people who were once just names on a sheet of paper to return to people that we hugged and fought tears to say good-bye to before we ever left.

We will leave our best friends to return to our best friends. We will go back to the places we came from and go back to the same things we did last summer and every summer before.
We will come into the town on that same familiar road, and even though it has been months, it will seem like only yesterday.

As you walk into your old bedroom, every emotion will pass through you as you reflect on the way your life has changed and the person you have become. You suddenly realize that the things that were most important to you a year ago don’t seem to matter so much anymore, and the things you hold highest now, no one at home will completely understand.

Who will you call first?
What will you do your first weekend home with your friends?
Where are you going to work?
What has everyone been up to in the past few months?
Who from school will you keep in touch with?

Then you start realizing how much things have changed, and you realize the hardest part of being an Au Pair is balancing the two completely different worlds you now live in, trying desperately to hold on to everything all the while trying to figure out what you have to leave behind.

We now know the meaning of true friendship. We know whom we have kept in touch with over the past year and whom we hold dearest to our hearts. We have left our words to death with the real world. There have been times when we have felt so helpless being hours away from home when we know our families or friends needed us the most, and there are times when we know we have made a difference.

A few months from now we will leave.
A few months from now we take down our pictures and pack up our clothes. No more going next door to do nothing for hours on end. We will leave our friends whose random e-mails and phone calls will bring us to laughter and tears this summer, and hopefully years to come. We will take our memories and dreams and put them away for now, saving them for our return to this world.

A few months from now we will arrive.
A few months from now we will unpack our bags and have dinner with our families. We will drive over to our best friend’s house and do nothing for hours on end. We will return to the same friends whose random e-mails and phone calls have brought us to laughter and tears over the year. We will unpack old dreams and memories that have been put away for the past year.
In a few months we will dig deep inside to find the strength and conviction to adjust to changes and still keep each other close. And somehow, in some way, we will find our place between these two worlds. We will never forget this year in our life and the lesson we learnt here.

Are you ready??"