Introduzione personale

Dear Family, My name is Alejandra. I am a 21 year-old (female) spanish student. I currently live in Madrid, Spain, where I am one year short of completing my Master degree of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. I come from a family of 5: My parents, Camilo and Ana,my sister Ana and my little dog Mus. Although I have 15 cousins to whom I are very close because we are always together. My first language is, of course, Spanish, and I am also fluent in English. I started learning English in primary school, and it was also the language of instruction in the secondary school I attended. I have in addition been taking courses taught in English at university. I speak an intermediate level of German. I have been taking German language classes at my university for the last year. I am nevertheless aware that learning a language within a classroom context is by itself, incomplete. So, in order to really be at ease in English, I feel that a cultural immersion would do me a lot of good. I am particularly interested in experiencing family life in USA, since it offers a cultural context that is undoubtedly different from mine. For this reason, I would very much like to find a nice family to live with and work for in the States. When it comes to child care experience, I have looked after children since I was 13 years old. Among others, I provided after-school tuition to children aged between 5 to 17 years. I also organized for them and took part in recreational indoor and o