Loading ...college classes for au pairs in Portland, Vancouver and Salem Areas
As you already know, au pairs are required to take at least 6 credits or 60 hours at post secondary institution during their AuPairCare program year. I am still considering myself new to Portland Area and would love your help. Please share with me your experiences with colleges and different classes.
What class did you take and what was your experience? Do you think summer classes are good enough or should everyone wait until fall? Which classes are less expensive?
May 31st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Hi,
I took 2 terms of Spanish on Clackamas Community College. I really liked my classes and the college too. My classes costed 250.00 each, what is really expensive, so I could just take 2 terms.
The class was not too hard for me, because I knew already English and Spanish is pretty familiar with Italian. I took the classes in Fall and Winter.
I would say people should begin as soon as possible with college, because if aupairs change family or something else, it might be, that they are too late with finishing the 6 credits. I don’t know how it is in summer on the camp, but I think it’s still fun going to school, so you have at least some minutes for your own.
May 27th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Hey!
I took different classes this year, but all Non-Credit at PCC. I took Japanese, French and Tennis. Tennis was the most fun by far. The classes were all not too expensive. The language classes all cost between 80 and 100 $ and Tennis was 60 $. The books were pretty cheap, too. If you take non-credit classes it doesn´t matter, if you take them in summer, fall, winter or spring, because PCC has a 4-semester-system. The classes are the same in all four semester ( but they might offer more courses in fall than in summer). I can´t tell anything about the credit courses, because I didn´t take any.
I hope, I could help you Tanja and some new au-pairs, too.
Miriam