Immigratable

Happy New Year everyone! This year holds some great things for us and some changes are coming up. This episode just kinda explains what’s gonna happen. Thank you for all the support we’ve gotten so far, we really appreciate it.

We are so grateful to have started this journey together with you guys and seriously appreciate every single person who puts their time into listening to us!

Merry Christmas everyone! We hope you had a wonderful day/weekend :)

We discuss how to get your social security card, how to open a bank account, how to get a drivers license, etc.

We give you some tips we personally used when getting to a new host family, on how to get to know them and how to adjust to living with people you don’t really know and how to just be a good “roommate”.

In this episode, we talk about foods we like and dislike in the USA. We also give you our thoughts on the food and the difference between here and South Africa.

In this episode we talk about taking care of yourself, physically and mentally, over the holidays. We tell you what has worked for us, especially when homesickness comes into play. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

In this episode we talk about working over the holidays, like Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s. We give a little perspective from people who have been through this process and see it from a different perspective now.

In this episode we discuss the pros and cons of each age group, giving you a better understanding on how to choose what will work for you!

In this episode we run through the new proposed au pair regulations. We give our own personal opinions and discuss some of the important parts! Definitely worth a listen if you don’t want to read through the whole document!

In this episode we read all the au pair horror stories that got sent in to us. Physical abuse, inappropriate host dads and some spicy stories to end it all off.

In this episode we talk about dating in America, getting engaged, getting married and applying for your marriage based Green Card. We discuss the different options you can use to help in your application, give tips and tricks, as well as tell you exactly the forms and cost as of right now! A must listen to any newly engaged or married people!

In this episode we discuss a few things that were different from where we grew up, in South Africa. A lot of Americans probably don’t realize these things are not common and quite the adjustment for most of the people coming here.

In this episode we talk about country music, festivals, shows we’ve been to and still want to go to, people we still want to see perform live and county fairs! Don’t think it’s all washboards and banjos, we promise it’s a good one!

In this episode we talk about traveling in and around the USA, as well as international travel. We cover solo travel, with friends and with your host family! We give a lot of tips and tricks to make travel affordable!

In this episode we talk about the matching process, discussing tips when it comes to matching with a family as an au pair and we dive a little deeper into the rematch process, how we approached it with the family, reasons why we rematched, etc.

In this episode we tell you more about who we are, how we became au pairs, the families we were living with, how we met and became best friends and just a general experience of being an au pair.