Hallo…
ich habe mir viele gedanken gemacht,was ich wohl in den brief schreiben soll…habe ein bisschen rumgesurft und bin dann hier gelanden. ich fand hier sehr schöne briefe und habe mir einige anregungen geholt und eingebaut.
ich währe euch sehr dankbar,wenn ihr nochmal ein blick darüber werfen könntest und mir eure meinung dazu posten könntet.
vielen lieben dank im vorraus 
lg nathalie
Dear host family,
How to start a letter to people you don’t even know? I thought a lot about what I should write.
But at first I want to thank you, which you give me the opportunity to go abroad and live with you for a year. To show you that I am the right Au-pair for you, I will write here something about myself and my life.
My name is Nathalie Holst. I’m 19 years old and live in Germany, in a city called Brunswick, with about 245.000 thousand inhabitants in Lower Saxony in the north of Germany. My Mum and I move last year in summer to Brunswick, because my mother find a job in the near of Brunswick. My hometown is Bremerhaven and that is the place where the rest of my family and the most of my friends live.
Together with my mother I live in an apartment with a little garden. My parents are separated, that’s why my father lives in Bremerhaven, but I’ve got still contact with him, though I don’t see him very often. I have one elder brother his name is Tobias, he is 25 years old and is also living in Bremerhaven in his own apartment. I try to see my family and my friends as often as possible, they are the most important people for me, which supporting me in everything I do.
In my spare time I love to dance, to hear music or play basketball with my brother Tobias or my boyfriend. At the weekend I go with my friends to the cinema or we meet us in the city and go shopping. I like animals, I grow up with dogs and it’s wonderful to play with a dog or smooch with a cat.
My boyfriend Ben support me as much as possible, we can’t see us very often. He study medicine and work in a hospital in a different city. Ben grows up in California and he loves the American way of live and understands my wish to live in the United States.
When I stay at home I read books, my friends call me “bookworm”, I’m also very interested in geography and history and I would like to learn another language like Spanish. But my absolutely favorite thing in my spare time is to travel around.
My friends describe me as agreeable, conscientious, reliable, sociable, determined, adaptable, confident, accurate, humorous, helpful, open-mined, outgoing, family-oriented and straightforward person. I may be a bit shy when I meet one the first time, but after a short while I’m really open!
Sometimes I go with one of my six uncles and my younger cousins in the zoo or swimming, I enjoy the time with my family. I have a special relationship to my mum, she is more than just a mother for me, she is one of my best friends and I can entrust her everything. My friends told me that my mum and I are like the “Gilmore Girls”.
I finished school after 12 years and I get my advanced technical college entrance qualification
At the moment I work in the Black forest as a laborer for few months.
Last year I’ve got my driver license, here in Germany it’s a regulation to complete a first-aid-course. I drive 4 times or more at week and I love it to drive a car.
Why I want to be an Au pair? The answer is easy. In my internship at the kindergarten I remark that I love it to work with kids. It is nice to see how many new things the children learn each day and also I like to play with them.
I think the au pair job is the best opportunity to learn everything about an American family and how an American lives like. As an au pair you are a part of the family and you are integrated in every step of the family’s life.
The reason why I chose the United States is, I saw so many different and interesting sights of America and it’s my wish to make my own experience.
My expectations are to meet new interest traditions and cultures, to learn more about the “American way of life”. I would like to get so many unforgettable impressions; my ambition is to get more experience and independence. I think America is the best place, where I can get it!
Yours sincerely
Nathalie