After three weeks of working and trying to learn English by speaking to children I was told that even though I was very good in housework (I tried very hard to please them) they really expected a good English speaker who would teach their children and not the opposite way. You can imagine how frustrated I felt but I rang my au-pair agency and they found a new family for me. In the second family it was quite a different story however I still felt confused at the begining. They lived in east London they were black and had three children aged 6, 4 and 11 months old baby. That was something new for me becouse I had never had any experience with such a young child. But it was a sort of a challenge for me to change from a boy to a man and I had the biggest responsibility in my life. I started to enjoy to look after these children especially the baby after some time. You can imagine surprised look on faces of the people when I went with him to do some shopping. It didn‘t last very long though the mother of the children lost her job and I was after three months without a job again.
Family number three was living in north London and was quite poor but they still managed to have an au-pair. The reason a father of the three boys aged 3,6 and 9 years called an au-pair agency was that his wife was having an affair and she left home with her Irish boyfriend. It was a pretty interesting experience in this family, I celebrated the Christmas and the New Year with them. After holydays everyting changed, the mother was back and it all seemed as I was going to lose yet another job. But life is cruel sometimes, they had a fight in the kitchen (I was in the next room trying to soothe the crying children) and after that a husband left this time to live with his mother. Nothing nice to remember but at least i still had my job. It lasted only for next five months when again the woman lost her job and I was calling my au-pair agency again.
For the fourth family I had to travel to Oxford, city of students west from London. A woman without a husband one boy aged 9 and two twin girls aged 10 years. They lived in a nice house on a hill with a lovely view on the old city of Oxford. My job was to do some housework and prepare food for children when they come from school. The mornings were free so I was able to go to a private school every day and learn how to write English properly. I really enjoyed going to the school I made a new friends from around the world and my social life improved greatly, we were meeting after the school in pubs or in a club that was part of the school. Everything was going well my employer was happy I was happy and at last I thought this was the place I‘m going to stay for a long time.