Possibly the most exciting morning for as long as I can remember.
I woke up to an email from a lovely family in Connecticut. I was in shock as I didn't even think my application was available for families to see. They had just one little girl who was 8 years old and their letter seemed lovely however I received the email early that morning and I had to rush off to feed the horses and so I decided I would reply that evening once I could sit in front of my laptop and have a good think about what I would say in reply.
Later that day I received another email off the same family asking if I had received the first email (thank goodness for smartphones so I was able to receive the messages!). It was now I decided to write an email saying I had received her messages but wasn't able to send a thorough reply as I was not at home. When I was sending this reply my phone started ringing with an area code which was definitely not from the UK. It was the Au pair representative for the Connecticut cluster asking if I had received the emails as this family was "very interested"! I told her I was currently in the process of replying and that was that.
After a couple of messages back and forth we arranged to Skype that night at 5pm their time (10pm my time). To be honest, looking back I'm not particularly impressed with how quick things had gone as I felt rushed into everything but I did really like them, we spoke for about an hour and got on really well, they had two dogs and their little girl used to have riding lessons but hadn't been for some time (animals are very important to me this was a big aspect of choosing a family... I don't think I would be able to go to a family without any pets). We arranged to speak again the day after next and that went really well again, the Mum said that they had been speaking to another Au Pair and would have made their decision as to who they were going to chose by the end of the next day.
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