Ellen Caroline (22 / Ms. ), Brazilian, Student living in Spain looking for Au Pair & Nanny job in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands & Switzerland for 1-3 months

I'm Ellen, I'm from Brazil and I'm currently living in Spain studying Civil Engineering.

My family has always been large and very united. I have 5 brothers, I am the eldest and I helped my parents to take care of all my brothers, from cleaning to taking them to and from school. I helped with schoolwork and played a lot with them.

I am a student in the penultimate year of civil engineering and started studying 5 years ago in my home town in Brazil. Then I moved to Porto Alegre in Brazil to study Civil Engineering in a much better University and I lived there for two years alone at the age of 19 and I worked in the Civil Engineering area, I gave lessons of exact sciences and I worked in a fruit fair. Nowadays I live in Spain and study Civil Engineering and next year I will finish university.

I am a very determined, focused, cheerful person. I believe that we can always take the best from life. Life sometimes is not easy, but we always find people who help us in this journey.

My first experiences with languages were in Brazil, I learnt English for academic reasons and I met people who spoke it and I have been improving until today. With regard to Spanish, I had friends who were native speakers in Brazil and I communicated with them in Spanish. I studied Spanish for three years and two years ago I won a scholarship to study civil engineering in Spain and now I am fluent in Spanish. I am learning Italian because the language and the country catch my attention and this year I am going to study in Italy for Erasmus 6 in Lecce for Civil Engineering. Due to my experiences and the contribution of knowing the languages I believe that it will be a facilitator.