LoPair Culture Exchange

Thank you to Lopair I had the opportunity to live the experience that I was not able to have in University due to the pandemic situation. All the staff was extremely helpful through all the process and helped me in time of difficulty.

I highly recommend this experience to someone who wants to have a powerful insight on Chinese culture and the daily lives of Chinese people. Depending on the city and the family the experience can vary a lot from person to person so it's important to ask the right questions at the begging to the staff who is always very kind and ready to answer your concerns.

I am so grateful to the agency for making this experience possible!

During the summer of the year 2023 I took part of this program and spent 3 months in Beijing China with an amazing family who took me in their house and treated as their own. I really enjoyed my time there and had great adventures and experiences. I had to take care of the younger brother who was 11 years old, and luckily we clicked with each other. I recommend this experience to everyone who wants to do an aupair and to whom wants to discover Chinese traditions and culture. Only suggestion I can give is to study before Chinese because starting from scratch would be very difficult, for me it still was even though I studied Chinese at university for 3 years. Overall a very good experience!

I was an au pair in the USA for 2 years and I loved the experience so I decided to try it again in a different country, China was one of my options since I had always been interested in its culture and language so when I found Lopair I knew China was the right choice.
I arrived to Hangzhou and met my host family for the first time (without taking into account the online interviews ,ofc.), they picked me up at the airport and took me to my new home.
Lopair found a great family for me, they are funny and caring and made me feel part of their family as soon as I arrived, throughout my time with them I have met 奶奶， 外婆 and the rest of the family, having dinner with their relatives and friends is great because I can practice Chinese (my host family can speak English so we use English everyday) .
They have become part of my family now and I am so happy to have them!
My host kid is so smart, he challenges himself everyday so his English has improved a lot, I always ask him things about China and what Chinese kids do for fun, etc. He is always willing to help me clear my doubts.
Lopair has been with me since day one and I am thankful for that.

Hope this was helpful and that everyone interested in China just come because they won't regret it!

Thanks Lopair!

Honestly, I didn't expect much before I actually arrive in China. I do intersted in Chinese culture and I plan to join because I really want to experience the difference. However, I met a wonderful family, and Lopair really good at helping and supporting me during the time when COVID-19 breakout in China.

I was very worried and even panic when it started, the situation was pretty overwhelming. My host Mom was really nice to me and I also think of leaving the program earlier. When I asking questions and options how to leave, Lopair shows their great support and I also understand it's hard to get the flight during the time, I received a very clear explanation on the available options. But leaving my wonderful host family, I will feel so aweful and regreted. I got a lot helps and support from my host family and lopair, I don't feel good by leaving them at this hard time. So, I decided to stay after all.

And I'm glad that I stayed, becuase once the pandemic situation was under controled, my host family is able to take me out and we have short-trip to visit their hometown in Huzhou, a really wonderful place to visit, we climbed up the top of the mountain, visited some historical sites, learning history and ancient stories……

I thought my trip to China will be end up really bad when the COVID19 started, but it's not~ Totally out of my expectation~ I appreciate a lot and it's soooo nice to met my host family. I do suggest people who would like to join this progarm will need to prepared for being a teacher since Chinese family wants you to teach the kids to learn English.

The teaching sometime may needs you to generate some creative ideas to teach. You may also be prepared that you will need to learn Mandarin in China, Lopair offers Mandarin class and I'm able to catch up my poor Chinese, which now become one of the biggest gain during the program.

Luckily I had the support of my agency at home who also rebooked my flight so I could get home earlier when the virus in Beijing spread and contacted me and other german aupairs very quickly.

Others didn't get any help from Lopair, and tried to charge big amounts of money which no aupair can afford!

I won't explain in detail what problems other aupairs had.Another comment explains it well enough. Things went pretty bad for many of us, especially when the virus broke out.We were basicially left with no support.

Communication problems also occured on many occasions. Just be aware they will usually side with the host family and care for their problems first.After all they pay a lot of money.

China is a nice place to visit.I enjoyed being there and made some great memories.Try another company or program. You might be left with no proper care and have to pay too much money when things get bad since Lopair is only interested in making as much money as possible and not taking care.Have a nice day.