Looking forward to seeing all you au pairs at our next meeting on Tuesday, November 22 for Salsa Dancing!

  Please come to:   Borderline in Thousand Oaks:

99 Rolling Oaks Drive  Thousand Oaks, CA 91361

Class starts at 7 p.m. - so get there at 6:45 if you can.  If you are working, you can come later and there is another lesson at 8 p.m. I will be there from 6:45 to 8′45 so please come between those hours.  You may stay longer and enjoy the dancing, of course!

I have asked them to give us a discounted rate so we can each get in for $7.  Please look for me near the door or tell the people at the door you’re with “Emily’s Au Pair Group”

Our December meeting will be held on Sunday, December 18 at my house between 5:30 and 7:30

Once again we will share our own customs and holiday traditions.  Please plan to make food to share with the other au pairs.  Write me back and tell me what you will be bringing.  It should be something you would eat around this time of year in your home country.

Bring a story about your own family or country’s holiday traditions.  We’ll share them around the fireplace after we’ve visited and shared our yummy holiday food. 

Join au pairs and host families in the park next to the Stagecoach Inn and Museum for a multi-Cultural feast at Noon.   Au pairs will be sharing tastes of food from their home countries.

Starting at 1 p.m. the docents of the Stagecoach Inn Museum will be sharing stories, arts and crafts, games and songs.  There will also be ongoing tours of the whole property - hosted by the docents and with discounted prices for guests of Cultural Care Au Pair. These activities are geared to multiple age levels from toddler to adult!

Please join us - all families are welcome!

51 South Ventu Park Road
Newbury Park, CA 91320

http://www.stagecoachmuseum.org

Join your au pair friends on a cruise out to the Channel Islands where we’ll have the chance to look at the beauty of the Pacific ocean and find some of the wonderful sea animals around.  We hope to find dolphins, seals, whales and more!

When: Sunday, March 13, starting at 12:30 sharp

Where:  Island Packers, 3600 South Harbor, Channel Islands Harbor, Oxnard

Bring:  Binoculars, Camera, Sun Screen, layers of clothing, good boat shoes, snacks (or buy on board)

Cost:  $30 (cash only)

Whale Watching and Other Marine Mammals
On all Island Packer’s trips to the Channel Islands we cruise with an open eye for wildlife, especially everyone’s favorite, whales and dolphins.  There are also two seasons each year where we specifically go out into the waters of the Santa Barbara Channel and the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary just to look for whales.  The annual gray whale migration in the local area is best viewed from late December through March.

Come join your fellow au pairs from 6 au pair groups (maybe 100 au pairs!) for an evening of fun!

Borderline Bar & Grill
99 Rolling Oaks Drive
Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
 
6:00 p.m. doors open for us!
Cover charge is $7.00 per au pair.
 
6:30 line dancing lessons
7:30 line dancing lessons
 
Beverages and food for purchase if you want.
 
After 8, there will be a DJ OR a live band (at 9) playing country and top 40 music.  Other young people from the area will be
 
At 11, there will be a special latin band playing latin music until 2 a.m. (think it’s called ‘cumbia’).  Another group is bringing in the band but au pairs are welcome to stay.  (This is sort of a Valentine’s Day special.)  I realize MANY OF YOU HAVE CURFEWS so it will only work for you if you don’t.  Our meeting will be officially over around 8 p.m.
 
Let me know if you have any questions.  I’m really looking forward to seeing you all!

Our meeting will be next Monday night, November 22, at 7:00 p.m.  Please try to be on time or let me know in advance if you need to work and have to come later!
 
Where:  Woodlake Lanes Bowling Center
             23130 Ventura Blvd.
             Woodland Hills, CA 91364
 
Bring:  $7 for bowling 1 game.  This includes your shoe rental.  If you want to bowl more it’s only $1 for each additional game.  Last year many of us bowled 2 or 3 games.
Wear socks!  And wear comfortable clothes for bowling of course.

Dinner together at Romano’s Macaroni Grill in Westlake Promenade!  5:30 p.m.

(corner of Westlake Blvd. and Thousand Oaks Blvd.)

See you all there!

I am so excited to start off this ’school year’ with a fun meeting with all of you - just US! This Sunday, we’ll have a great time by my pool in my development, getting to know each other and doing our Fall Continuing Education.  If you’re new, that’s great because you’re in the majority and it’s going to be a great year for all of you!  

We’ll also talk about what’s to come this next year, choose some fun meetings and the educational component of your visa so you will get lots of information.  If it’s warm bring your swimsuit or wear it!  

See you at 6:00 p.m. at the West Pool in my development, Stoneybrook.   Stoneybrook Road is between Lindero Canyon and Westlake Blvd. off of Agoura Road.  If you need to mapquest, use my home address from the email. But DON’T GO TO MY HOUSE BECAUSE I’LL BE AT THE POOL!  When you enter on Stoneybrook, go past my street and just past the house on the corner, look left and you’ll see a fountain spout with the pool right behind the pond.   I’ll have my mobile phone if you need to call.   Looking forward to seeing you all!

Hey au pairs, the scavenger hunt is just 2 weeks away now, Saturday, August 21 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  Here is the link to Reply to and say whether you are coming. 

       https://culturalcare.wufoo.com/forms/southern-california-scavenger-hunt/

Do you have a blue Cultural Care t-shirt?  If so, please wear on Saturday, August 21!  You will get points right away for wearing your shirt or another blue shirt (the blue of the Cultural Care heart).  We PREFER CCAP shirts so if you have extras to lend or give to other au pairs on your team, please do!   Remember, extra points right away for wearing your t-shirt.

Talk to your friends, form groups of 4 for a team and get back to me with the names!

And the prizes are great for this contest!  You WANT to WIN

We have our own Facebook page.  Use this page to invite any of your AuPair friends from other agencies.  The title of the event for you to search for is First Annual Au Pair Scavenger Hunt in Los Angeles.

This is your monthly meeting for August and therefore their attendance is required.

Get excited about this - it’s gonna be a blast!.  It’s your time to meet au pairs from all over so california and have some fun in one of the greatest places in so CA!

Great Times at the Baseball Meeting!

Next month join us for a great Scavenger Hunt - Saturday, August 21 - more later!