Зоя (20 / Ms. ), Belarusian, Manager living in Belarus looking for Au Pair & Nanny job in Italy & Netherlands for 10-12 months

My name is Zoya, at the moment I'm 20 years old. I live in city of Minsk, Belarus. Grew up in a large family, there are seven of us. I am the third child in the family, when I turned 10, our last girl was born. My first experience of interacting with children I got in my family, helping a mother with a newborn. We have always lived in the city, in apartments. But we have a country house, where we go to rest in the summer.

Now I live separately from my parents. I rent an apartment with a friend. My first independent experience of living separately from my family was abroad. I went to Poland for three months, attended language courses.

I play the piano, paint pictures by numbers. In the summer and autumn seasons I like to go hiking in the forest, be in nature for a long time. I like to read books in a foreign language, but so far it's not easy. I feel better when I play sports, now I go to the gym twice a week, I go to yoga. When the weather is warm I spend a lot of time riding a bike.

Speaking my a education I've graduated from high school. In Belarus we have 11 forms. Then I entered university where I'd studied 3 terms.

Speaking about my language experience, I can say that my native language is Russian. From foreign languages I know English at the Pre-Intermediate level and Polish (I can read and understand it).

Speaking my experience with children I want to add that apart growing my sisters and my brother, I also work with someone's children. When I studied at the university, in the evening I pick up a 7-year-old child from school, took him home and spend time with him till his parents arrived. We read books together, did his hometask, played board games.
Also I look after my aunt's children.She has 5 children, from 1 to 11 years old. Sometimes I stay along with her children. My family has always had newborns, so I love and know how to take care of small children. I can chanse diapers, feed babies, calm down, put them to bed.

Now I'm working in achildren's center. So, from my experience with children I want to go to the Au-Pair program, because I feel that I can communicate with children, understand them.

From this program I want to improve my skills in working with children and improve my English skills to higher level.

Why the Netherlands? I was inspired by this country and his people's lifestyle, that almost all residents there ride bicycles and people love a sportly lifystyle.

In future I want to study abroad in English. So I need to get into language environment. I want to study psychology at University, so interaction with children is a very valuable experience for me.

I can follow this program from September.