Alexa Fazio

I am 26 years old, former Au Pair in USA

“Freedom” is the first word I think of when someone ask me about my period as an Au Pair.
Was my first time away from home, away from my family, away from everything I had before. 
I used to live in a “Golden Cage”, a calm, peaceful existence. When I decide to leave I was sure that my life was about to change. 
My au pair life was like the two pics I decided to share: duty and freedom. I took the first pic during a lazy rainy day in Seattle (where a spent my first year as an Au Pair). That pic reminds me of how much I love my host kids, my home away from home. 
The second pic was taken during a road trip. I remember we decided to leave the same morning a we drove for about 3 hours to get there: this broken bridge hidden in the Washington State’s wood. I was scared of the height (and I’m still scared), but that place was the third essence of the Freedom I was searching for. 
And that’s what was for me being away from home, have new responsibility, bad and good days: have the Freedom of being lazy on the couch or fight my fears in a broken bridge hidden in the Washington State’s Wood.