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I think it almost contributed to her laziness - she literally will sleep or be on her computer all day until she has the kids in the afternoon.  Maaaaybe she'll drive to meet her friend at Starbucks for an hour.  I want to scream "you are in a great city totally free of responsibilities and you have literally all day until 3pm to do whatever you want and you use it to sleep, sit in Starbucks, and Skype with friends back home??"

She also goes out until really really late at night, I assume because she doesn't need to wake up at all the next morning, and I think that's contributing to her fatigue during the day - she's always complaining that she didn't sleep well and doesn't feel good.   I was hoping she'd use all that free time to check out the city or go to class or something.  But I think it's just aided her laziness.

This has definitely been a learning year for me.

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But what is a girl to do when there is no-one to do something with.
I understand the going out at night. That is when she can meet with the au pairs she has met through the program. But what to do during the day? Wonder about the city all alone?[/quote]

Take a class - of any type would be a good start. [/quote]

I'm the OP. There are actually lots of au pairs to school aged children that are free during at least some of the day. As the PP mentioned, there are also classes. My first AP actually did do some alone wandering and actually met lots of people. There are tons of things you could do. But as I mentioned, I won't have my next AP off so much during the day. She definitely doesn't have enough to do. So maybe you're right that there aren't great opportunities all the time during the day and she would have been happier working. [/quote]

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