"I wanna get experiences"

Well thats probably the most common answer, au pairs give when they are asked at the embassy why they wanna go to the states.
Its funny because I remember myself standing there after 3 hours plain waiting, answering with that answer, without imagine that there could be hard and not so "easy to get" experiences...

I really never could imagine that it could be kind of challenging to have 6 or 7 hours only for your self. Of course you can sleep the whole time, but that isn't the solution for me. Now, after 4 months, I'm at the point that I can say : I can deal with myself. And trust me it wasn't a nice lesson sometimes. Especially when your work is basically sitting in a chair, observing and be careful not to fall a sleep.

At some point you start searching for reasons for your boredom and you start blaming friends for it, that they don't write as often as you wished they would or you blame the family you are living with, because they are not so fascinating like the Flyns, you blame the town because there is nothing going and so and so on. After a lot of time I figured out : " Hey Idiot, its you, only you. Either you can deal with our self or you should go home. So its better to become friends now and deal with each other (yes I started talking to myself...).
Thats how I become a friend of george =) whats your story :P ??