Au pair is an international program for people who want to work abroad. In return for help with child care and minor household chores, host families take volunteers under their roof. Karolina decided to participate in such a program, who on her profile on TikTok tells, among others, about what surprised her.
“What is a dishwasher” for good morning
As it turns out, working with American families can be full of surprises, as Karolina talks about in one of her videos. Currently, the recording breaks popularity records; at the moment it already has over 3 million views and 266 thousand. likes. – My first host family upon arrival she asked if I knew what a dishwasher was. The most interesting thing was that they didn’t have a dishwasher. And I had to wash all the pots by hand – says Karolina in the recording.
“How can you be cold? After all, you’re from Poland”
Considering the numerous stories that the Polish woman shares with her followers on TikTok, Americans’ ideas about Polish society, customs and even the climate are often – to put it mildly – far from the truth. – They were always in severe shock when I said I was cold. They kept telling me: “but how can you be cold? After all, you’re from Poland…It can therefore be speculated that, according to some residents of the United States, there is eternal winter in Poland.
Karolina also mentions the approach to physical activity of the families she lived with. It turns out that most people also reacted with surprise to … a walk. “They were often shocked when I said I was going to walk somewhere. They would drive everywhere. Even to the park, which was about 5 minutes from the house – says Karolina in the recording.
“The French asked me if we had asphalt on the roads”
Thanks to her social media activity, Karolina helps people interested in participating in such programs to understand how it works in practice and what to pay special attention to. It now has over 123,000. followers and many positive comments under the videos. At the same time, Internet users do not hide their surprise at the ideas of some foreigners about Poland and often share their own stories:
When I was once on an exchange in France, the French asked me if we had asphalt on the roads
I was on an exchange in Germany and the host father, serving breakfast, started to present Nutella, explaining what it is, what it is for and how to apply it
The Belgians told me that we don’t have vacuum cleaners, fridges and we keep our food outside because it’s cold and we have snow
– comment netizens under the posted recording.
Source: Gazeta
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