As a result of my previous post, I am looking for a family to start with in September. More details on [email protected]
Something about me:
I'm nice , friendly and with good references, no qualifications though but willing to do for example first aid. I am 21 (22 in March) and I have experience with children of all different ages - I've looked after my nephew since he was born (he lived full-time with us up to the age of 1, now he just turned 3), in Prague I was a part-time nanny for a girl aged 2 (but that was almost 2 years ago so we lost contact I'm afraid) and as mentioned before, I have plenty of au-pair experience. My first AP stay was in summer 2004 (3 months) when I was 17 (2 boys aged 6 and 9), since then I have spent every summer in UK as an AP for approx 3-4 months (would love to stay longer but I study in Czech rep.) - in 2005 it was a girl (4y) and a boy (6y), in 2006 it was a girl (15m) and a boy (5y) and I came back to this family again in 2007 and 2008 (so the kids are now 3 and 8, time flies!) and we are regularly in touch and visit each other. In 2007 I also spent 2 months with another family (single mum and a 4y girl and a 5y boy), also lovely and still in touch. So the last 2 families in particular are very happy to provide references (and I believe good ones - both of them was almost completely sole charge, so I am very confident to do sole charge even with a baby - might gain some more baby experience before September as lots of my sister's friends have babies and need a babysitter once in a while.
My location and other circumstances are all to be decided, but I hope to find a flat in SW/W London, and to be able to work 3-4 days a week.
I don't drive and don't smoke.
I imagine some issues would be that I'm not a native English speaker (but if it helps, I have to have reasonable knowledge of English in order to go to Uni ;) and that I'm not available for an interview - but I am prepared to meet the prospective family well in advance as I have a few short trips to London planned before September.
So, if anyone is happy to consider me, I will be soooo happy to hear from you