When Sally arrived in Germany for the first time to work as an au pair, language and food are not the only challenges he faced. What is your hair? How could handle during a year would be abroad?
Sally's dilemma is common for African women abroad. Many women have hair permed (relaxed or treated by chemical means). A requires regular treatment and ongoing editing or renewal. In Africa, these services are cheaply available in every classroom in the corner. In Europe, for example, the sedan that is available can be miles away, and that visit did not cost less than fifty euros at least.
Many African women are so used to canteen services in Africa and many do not even bother to find out if your hair is fine, medium or large and have no idea how to put rollers in hair clean or how use a hair dryer or a pair of pliers. For many African women, hair care is a community project, one of many parents, children or hair oils neighbors whenever necessary, and the professional is twisted affordable.
Hairdresser in Africa is a lowly job and pay and many women feel on how to learn, even the abandonment of basic skills and braiding, braids or son. The fact is that knowledge how to braid hair or braid does not prevent it from becoming a lawyer or something else if you want, but you prepare to face your own hair if necessary.
If you leave Africa for a life elsewhere, it is likely that you'll have to manage their own hair. Even if you can afford the permanent correction, it is likely that you do not have time to go every week for a wash and style and treatment.
It is therefore a good idea acquire the following skills before you go:
1. First, you have the correct information:
The next time you are in a room, what kind of hair you have: late term, coarse or medium term. Do you have a sensitive scalp or scalp normal? What chemicals best results for your hair? Among the chemicals used, which strength is best for you: Regular or super? How difficult to maintain in the salon? If you ever need to buy and implement its own Perm, you know where to start.
Find out what the treatment works best for your hair re-touch: Did you need treatment for cholesterol-based, which is more care and leaves hair feeling softer, or treatment with henna, which makes hair stronger? Also, what kind of hair oil or food that works best for your hair.
2. The next thing you need is a working knowledge:
Promote awareness of rollers, a blow-dryer and tongs. You will then be able style quickly your own hair at home, even if you need the occasional visit to a trade show going. Learn your own oil hair.
3. If your hair standing on an ongoing basis, over time they break and dissipate. In addition, the fall and winter is disagree with African hair. It is a good time to braid hair and give it a rest. Then, to grow and gain volume with good results for the next become permanent.
Take time to learn to weave base, twining, weaving and threading techniques. With practice, you'll be able to do a decent job in her hair. Even if it lasts a week or two, it gives your hair a break. The alternative is to spend a large sum for someone else to do (in Germany up to a hundred euros for the braids and at least thirty simple braids.)
But this is not the case the biggest challenge: finding someone to do it is the biggest challenge. The price of one in my neighborhood is always full. All African women I met in Europe is always looking for someone to braid hair. And if you have a regular job, which complicates matters worse, because can not always find time to do your hair when you find someone who can.
If you can not decently or braid braid, it may even be able to use exchange with others.
4. Skin care is less complicated. You can buy adequate supplies to take along the length of your stay if you are visiting. If not, consider what type of skin care you need for example for skin dry, normal or oily. Identify active ingredients, so you can find similar products.
Do the same thing for makeup. Sometimes, however, the product is exactly the same thing in African shops.
When Sally flew back home after one year in Germany, she said she was determined to learn to take care of your hair if it needs more, not just look down on these skills because they are very cheap and easily available in Africa. But she had to learn the hard way because his hair been damaged because she could not touch braid itself, and could always find someone to do it. You can choose to be better prepared to emigrate.
Have you ever been an au pair abroad?
If yes, how was your experience? Which agency to contact with the host family? Was it easy for you to get a visa? Have you and your family? Have you had time to work and study of languages the country? How long was there and to master their language?
I was an aupair in Switzerland, and had a bad experience, but I found many other girls who have had wonderful experiences. Go through a placement agency in good faith, the application process will be long, but you will be better protected against the legal issues. They do all the submission of a visa for you. contract specifies the number of hours per week for work, and also provides that should study the language during their stay. The contracts are always a year. If you have no prior knowledge of the language before you leave, you can not talk, but you have a good basis for further studies. Although it will be immersed in a culture that speaks a different language, the opprotunity to learn well be minimal, because the fact that he was chosen because her host family speak English want their children all day, and that's about all that is communicated. Most peer "along with their host families, but need some adjustments. If you've never spent much time in the house of someone else, a worker may be difficult for you. You are there to work, and can sometimes be treated as a "household". Often behind the scenes of family outings or be forced to eat elsewhere room when company is coming. They ask for a large number of functions, besides taking care of children, such as cleaning and laundry. Aupair experience can be rewarding, allowing you to see other parts of the world, learn another language and meet new friends. It is good for many people. Think carefully before doing so. Talk to many different families. Ask them to send photos of your family, home and room will go in. Ask if you can communicate with your nanny above, and further information on the family as possible (how long the parents have been married What time is it works, what time the children go to school, etc.)
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