Hallo liebes granny aupair Team,

heute mal einen gemeinsamen Gruß von uns dreien, die wir uns zur Zeit (noch) in KL aufhalten.

"Noch" deshalb, weil uns Margareta (rechts i. Bild) am Ende dieser Woche verlässt. Ihre Zeit hier in KL ist leider um und wir beiden anderen werden sie sicher vermissen, da unsere - möglichst wöchentlichen - Treffen immer sehr kurzweilig waren. Natürlich werden Ruth und ich uns weiterhin treffen und auch das Eine oder Andere noch gemeinsam unternehmen. Sollte sich der "Zuzug" einer neuen Granny für KL abzeichnen, bitten wir um entsprechende Benachrichtigung. Ruth bleibt ja noch bis Ende Juli und ich selber bleibe ja bis ....? (geplant ist Februar/März n.J.). Im Juli werde ich dann zur Abwechselung mal "Urlaub in Deutschland" machen. Danach geht es dann wieder hierher zurück zu "meiner Familie".

Herzliche Grüße

Ihre Granny Elke

Dear Granny-Aupair-Team, Evelyn sends you warm greetings from a wonderful city in the far East.
Once again I am totally thankful to be able to be around and about in the big wide world as a Granny, this time in Shanghai. My stay is until the middle of May.

i like it here very much and littel Sophia is such a lovable, darling girl. She goes to the German School in Shanghai in the new part of town, Pudong. This makes a former teacher's heart beat faster. I live with her exactly opposite and we just tumble from one doorway into the next one. THe parents live very far away.

Sophia has a small "private boarding school" with the Granny in the week so to say.

Her parents and grandparents are very hospitable, they are always smiling.

On my first free weekend I was already able to go on a city safari.

On me I had a load of small notes, on which my address, where I want to go, which bus or metro I need, where to find a toilet etc. were written in Chinese characters for all eventualities.

With the help of this "treasure" and a map in German I was able to find everything and am now looking forward to the next excursion.

Hello dear Granny-team,

I have already been here in Malaysia for nearly 4 days.
Everything went well with the flight. No problems with the stopover and the connecting flight from Istanbul to Kuala Lumpur was very pleasant. I had two seats for me alone. I could lie down and even slept tightly for around 5 hours. Thus I was also able to get through the following day. The welcome in the family was also very warm.  Felix, the four year old recognized me at once. (I had already met the family in August 2015 in Freiburg) He came running towards me, hugged and kissed me. Leo, the 2-year-old was not so happy, he had had a slight temperature for two days, but is ok again now.

After the children were in bed, I went to dinner with the parents. I was in bed at last at midnight. At that time I had been up and about for 32 hours - if I deduct the 5 hours sleep on the plane.

As the little one was not allowed in kindergarten the next day, we spent a nice morning together up to his nap. Felix went to his music lesson after Kindergarten. Following that we painted balloons with lots and lots of colour. A huge mess, the floor was just as painted as the three of us. No problem for the floor (white marble, easy to clean) and not for us. After a thorough shower we were presentable again.

My "new home" (the house as such) is very big. My own room is big enough for three (!).
The weather is as one could wish for: blue sky with a few clouds now and again. Temperature: 32 degrees-. You don't need warm water to shower, as the "cold" water is warm enough. On the following day we captured the pool together. Today we also splashed and horsed around for around two hours. I also use the pool every evening for going to bed. I've already done this today and as I write this I am sitting at the edge of the pool and letting my legs dangle in the water.