Ruth T - 25 years old

Basic Information:

Ruth is a 25 year-old Italian girl from Galicia, Spain. She graduated from the University of Languages in Madrid being specialised in translation (English, French and German).

She wants to be an au pair because she wants get to know the UK culture, to see how children are brought up here and to improve her English. She thinks that this experience will help in a future career and would like to be placed with a family who will allow her to attend English classes.

Ruth likes listening to music, cooking, reading and going out with her friends (but mainly in pubs not in discos). She also likes playing spots like: basketball, swimming, ice skating, hill walking and mountaineering.

She is a non smoker.

Childcare Experience:

Ruth has experience with children. She participated to different work camps in Germany and Ireland. The first one was in Germany and she worked with children of different ages (their theme was �the wild, wild east�). She had to entertain the children, to play with them and to build different things to help the children feel that they can be very useful. The last work camp that she took part was in Germany (near Berlin) and she was living with other school colleagues and was looking after children with different mental or physical disabilities � even though her main duty wasn�t looking after children, after work she always played with them and tried to entertain them. She was a summer au pair in Germany. She had to look after a 14 year-old girl and a 16 year-old boy. She was also teaching them Spanish and French as the children were old enough to learn other languages. She also played the piano and the guitar.

English Skills:

Her English is very good. She graduated from the Faculty of Languages in Madrid and her main specialisation is English.

Other languages:

Her Mother tongue is Spanish. She also speaks French, German and Romanian.

Housework:

Ruth is prepared to undertake light housework (tidying/ vacuuming/ dusting), shopping (Food, Groceries), care for babies, children or older children, elderly, washing, ironing, driving, looking for pets, cooking for children and for the family.

Character:

Ruth considers that she is friendly, outgoing, sociable, organized and neat and tidy. She likes planning things in advance. She thinks that the communication will be very important in her relation with the family (she wants the family to tell her when they think she did something wrong).

Eating Habits:

Ruth likes eating fresh and healthy food as many times as possible. She likes eating fruits, vegetables and fish. She has no problems eating other types of food and thinks that she is very flexible regarding food.

Driving:

Ruth passed her driving test in November 2009. She drives 3 times a week (usually during the weekend when they go sightseeing).

Family:

She lives with her boyfriend near Barcelona, Spain. He is 32 years old and works as for the Spanish Economy Minister. Her Mum is 52 years old and is a teacher; her Father is 60 years old and is retired. She has a brother who is 20 years old and is still at school.