Work abroad in Elise's family for 1-6 Months starting from Aug 2024 as an Au Pair to take care of 2 children of 1 - 5 years old & 11 - 14 years old in Nîmes, Occitanie France

Good morning,
I am Elise, the mother of the “ROCHE” Family. The father's name is Florian and we have three children: Louise who is 13 years old (03/19/2011) and Maxandre 9 years old (11/20/2014), Jeanne 4 and a half years old (01/02/2020), Le young au pair will have to mainly take care of Maxandre and Jeanne. We are 41 and 40 years old respectively. We are originally from Beaujolais (north of Lyon) but, for professional reasons, moved to the South of France in 2007.
We live in the countryside. My husband has an IT company in Nîmes. We live 15 km from Nîmes and 50 km from Montpellier. We are in the town of Saint-Gilles in the Gard but our children are schooled and looked after in the village of Garons (5 km from us) for reasons of proximity.
Louise will return to 4th grade in September. She does athletics twice a week and does horse riding. Maxandre is in CM1 1 and will be returning to CM2. He is a curious, very graceful and pleasant little boy who also knows how to get into mischief... His sister takes her role as eldest very seriously and likes to take care of her little brother when he asks her. Sometimes she likes to tease him...but they are accomplices and love being together. These are children who are not turbulent and who love it when we play with them…
We live not far from the Mediterranean Sea (40 km from Stes Maries de la Mer or Grau du Roi) and we sometimes go one afternoon to relax by the water. We love walking, gardening, riding horses and traveling. We are very close to the city of Nimes (15 km).
We have been living in a new property since February with a large plot of land of 4000m² and a very large garden, where we have a Sky Australian Shepherd dog (very nice) who guards the property, a cat who stays outside, chickens It's the dream place for nature lovers because we are in the heart of the Camargue, land of horses and bulls... There are plenty of places to visit on the weekend.

The period of late August and September, for a month and a half, is the harvest period for me, which explains our desire to welcome an au pair to help us get through this professionally busy period and take care of of our children, especially by avoiding too much outdoor daycare. I work on site but I'm very busy. My husband also works a lot and takes care of the children on weekends.
We are looking for a trustworthy, mature person who likes children, who has a driving license because without this it is not possible to travel to school, on weekends or to go to town (even if there are bus to the city center we are 2 km from the bus station). Our au pair will be integrated into our family, we will eat together when possible, she will be able to follow us on weekends if she wishes, we will show her the region and she will have most of her days to learn French if she wants it. She will take care of getting the children up; prepare them and take them to school and to the nanny; to collect them at the end of the day (except Wednesday afternoon when she will keep them), play with them, wash them and prepare them for the evening meal or even prepare the meal for them if we have not returned from work and put them to bed if need.
She will have her own very bright 15 m² bedroom. A large bed, two bedside tables, a chest of drawers and a small desk are available in his room. The house has 3 bathrooms. She will be able to use the computer and the family television if she wishes.

We will speak in French but I understand a little English if that is necessary... For Spanish we have some notions... In any case we will be able to understand each other... See you soon.

We have had an au pair during this period for 9 years. We can provide you with contact details of previous au pairs.


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