Conchi, home childcare - BS3 Bristol

Dear host family,

My name is Conchi, I´m 22 years old and I live in a small town call Sax near Alicante (Spain) with my parents and brother. My mother's name is Conchi too and she is a stay home mom. My father's name is José and he works in the family business a shoes factory. I have younger brother, his name is Vicente, he´s living right now in England for studies and work, He’s 20 years old. We are a very close, sociable and communicative family, we love hanging up together. My family is so large for both parts, with lots of aunts and cousins and I love it. My mother has three siblings a sister and two brothers, and my father has one brother and a lot of cousin that they are like uncles and aunts too me. I love child’s and I am one the oldest so I have been always taking care of my brother when my parents were at work and also my little cousins in summer, preparing their food, helping them with summer homework, playing and doing crafts together or going to the pool. All the family live closer so I have been always surrounded by family and little cousins!

When I finished high school, I decided to study Advertiser and Audiovisual Communication in Alicante, the capital of my region. For me, it was one of the best and most important decisions in my life. Living away from home and my family has taught me to appreciate many things, to be much more responsible than I was before going and to mature as person. I think it was a very good opportunity to learn more about myself and it was for me. I have always been very active and hard working, so I tried to help at home and in the family business combining my studies with jobs, returning to Sax in summer to look after children. I love working with children because they know how to get the best out of myself and I try to teach them to do their best. It is a very rewarding job.
In my university years, I met a lot of people of different countries, that teach me to appreciate another’s people cultures and learnt more about that. All this experience with people for another’s country wake me up to learn and want to travel to another countries to learnt more. My family and my friends say that I'm a very motherly, responsible and loving person, furthermore, I love kids, so this year I decided to fulfill my too passion travel and take care of Childs been au pair. They support my decision and they are very happy for me. I'm delighted to have the opportunity to improve my English, meet your lifestyle, your habits and your country, which I greatly admire. And what better way than doing what I love! I love spending time with children and learning everything they can teach me every day. They learn a lot of us, but we learn more from them than we think. To me, it's wonderful see them growing up with us and learning, litlle by little, to be more independent.
I have experience in caring for children from ten months to thirteen years, girls and boys too. Since I was sixteen, I work as a nanny in the summer. Taking care of my cousin and another kids of my town. I used to wake up the children, have breakfast together, help them to get dressed, make homeworks and going to the pool or play charades because they liked it.

Besides childcare experience, I also love reading books and newspaper every day when I have some leisure time, listening to the radio and watching movies, traveling and learning about other cultures and ways of life, meeting new people, talking and sharing experiences, going out with friends or preparing lunch or dinner with my family or with my friends too. I like healthy eating, cooking and trying new flavors but, therewith, I love making cakes and butter or chocolate cookies, brownies, cheesecakes and fruit smoothies. I find very entertaining teaching children how to prepare desserts and funny smoothies.

I am so excited with the opportunity to know you better and to be a member of your family. I hope you had fun reading my letter and knowing a bit more about me and my dream.

I look forward to hearing from you!

Best wishes, Conchi