Finding yourself

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One of the biggest things you'll overcome when becoming an au pair is fear, deciding that you want to leave your home, your family, your friends and life as you know it is a scary decision. Leaving home and moving to another country is terrifying but also incredibly exciting. For most au pairs the scariest thing is the language barrier but so many au pairs leave here basically being fluent in English (so if thats one thing you might be worried about try not to I know it most be scary but I promise you it'll improve).

During the year of being an au pair you'll truly find yourself, you'll find things out about yourself that you never knew and you'll also find a lot out about others to. You'll go home a completely different but better version of yourself, you'll have found a new sense of confidence, independence and you'll be the best person you can be.

Deciding you want to be an au pair is the first step, for me at the beginning it felt like one of those things that I would say I would do but would never actually do it. I proved everyone wrong but most importantly I proved myself wrong, I proved to myself that I could achieve anything if I just put my mind to it and that anything really is possible.

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I've become the person I always dreamed of being, I'm independent, confident and someone that people enjoy being in the presence of. I find myself doing things that I would of never of done back home and I love it. I'm truly happy and that reflects in the way I act and how others act around me. I've matured a lot in my time of being here and things have become obvious to me, things have come in to light for me and I can see now whats important and whats not.

I've also learned that you shouldn't ever put anything or anyone before your happiness and dreams. YOU should come first in your life and someone who cant respect that quite frankly doesn't deserve to be in it. Throughout the year people will come and go; people who you've only just met will quickly become people who you learn on, people who you just can't imagine life without, people who have been there for what feels like forever will suddenly not be there, people will come and go and people who you thought would always be in your life will leave. It'll be devastating and it'll hurt but you'll learn from it all and you will become a stronger, better person because of it.

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I think that everyone should experience something like this at least once in their lifetime, its an amazing opportunity and you find out some unbelievable things about yourself. I have a different outlook on life and I have this feeling that if I can do this then I can do anything, now that might seem silly or stupid but think whatever you want.

I have found out so much about myself and I have grown into a better person because of this, I'm proud of myself and I'm motivated to do so much more. The only way from here is up.

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