Maria Celeste, 23 years from Palmares, Costa Rica (ID 1176419)
Spanish(Native), English(C1), French(A1)
01 Jun 2023 - 31 Dec 2023
12 - 24 Months
Jan 2026
Big City, Suburb, Town, Village, Countryside
1-2 Year, 3-6 Year, 7-10 Year, 11-14 Year, 15 Year+
Yes, with any of them
Yes
Yes
Mail to Maria Celeste 
Infant Qualified (491 documented hours)
Documented hours with children over 2y: 1,641h
Open to work with children with Special Needs
Maximum number of children to care for: 3
Driving daily, driver’s license since December 2022 (driving since October 2022)
Fully vaccinated with an approved vaccine
Maria Celeste is a responsible and creative 23y old Au Pair from Costa Rica who speaks Spanish, English and some French. She has 1 sibling who is older. Maria has experience with children from newborn through 15y old. She has been working as a babysitter for 4 families, as nanny for 3 families and as a tutor on 5 occasions. Maria is first aid trained, has her drivers license since December 2022 but she is driving since October 2022 already. She is driving daily. In her free time she likes to do arts and crafts, to embroider, to spend time with pets, to go to the gym and to swim.
Video Presentation: https://youtu.be/sOHWXGtvgSY
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Documented hours with children over 2y: 1,641h
Open to work with children with Special Needs
Maximum number of children to care for: 3
Driving daily, driver’s license since December 2022 (driving since October 2022)
Fully vaccinated with an approved vaccine
Maria Celeste is a responsible and creative 23y old Au Pair from Costa Rica who speaks Spanish, English and some French. She has 1 sibling who is older. Maria has experience with children from newborn through 15y old. She has been working as a babysitter for 4 families, as nanny for 3 families and as a tutor on 5 occasions. Maria is first aid trained, has her drivers license since December 2022 but she is driving since October 2022 already. She is driving daily. In her free time she likes to do arts and crafts, to embroider, to spend time with pets, to go to the gym and to swim.
Video Presentation: https://youtu.be/sOHWXGtvgSY
***You can check approximate visa appointment wait times for an exchange visitor visa here: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/wait-times.html
Living in host country information
Have you ever been in the host country before? No
Have you ever applied for a visa for the host country? No
Care Experience
With which age group do you have experience| None | Poor | Intermediate | A lot of | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newborns |
Newborns
Intermediate
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| 1-2 Year |
1-2 Year
Intermediate
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| 3-6 Year |
3-6 Year
A lot of
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| 7-10 Year |
7-10 Year
A lot of
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| 11-14 Year |
11-14 Year
A lot of
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| 15 Year+ |
15 Year+
A lot of
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What kind of experience do you have in child care?
| None | Poor | Intermediate | A lot of | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Changing Diapers |
Changing Diapers
A lot of
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| Feeding |
Feeding
A lot of
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| Bathing |
Bathing
A lot of
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| Putting children to bed |
Putting children to bed
A lot of
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| Dressing |
Dressing
A lot of
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| Preparing Meals |
Preparing Meals
Intermediate
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| Reading books |
Reading books
A lot of
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| Tinkering |
Tinkering
A lot of
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| Playing |
Playing
A lot of
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Would you take care of a special needs child? Yes
Have experiences in taking care of a special needs child? No
Details of your experiences
| Experience and duration | Age and name of the children | Number | Gender | Total hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Tutoring 3/6/2019 - 12/3/2022 |
Age and name of the children Marco, 15 to 16 years old, English tutoring and homework help. | Number 1 | Gender Male | Total hours 784 |
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Teacher 5/2/2021 - 7/30/2022 |
Age and name of the children Jose María, 4 to 5 years old, English teaching and babysitting. | Number 1 | Gender Male | Total hours 280 |
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Babysitter 7/1/2021 - 11/30/2021 |
Age and name of the children Vitoria, José Ignacio, Alejandro. 6, 9, 12. English tutoring and sitting. | Number 3 | Gender Both | Total hours 100 |
|
Tutoring 3/5/2022 - 2/20/2023 |
Age and name of the children Alejandro. 11 years old, English tutoring. | Number 1 | Gender Male | Total hours 132 |
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Babysitter 3/11/2021 - 7/10/2022 |
Age and name of the children Victoria. 2.5m, babysitting | Number 1 | Gender Female | Total hours 192 |
|
Nanny 8/2/2021 - 8/31/2021 |
Age and name of the children Fatima, 7 years old, baby sitting. | Number 1 | Gender Female | Total hours 8 |
|
Babysitter 10/3/2021 - 17/3/2023 |
Age and name of the children Alessandro, 3 months old to 1 year and a half. Babysitting. | Number 1 | Gender Male | Total hours 75 |
|
Nanny 10/2/2021 - 12/28/2021 |
Age and name of the children Jorge Arturo, 6 years old. Babysitting. | Number 1 | Gender Male | Total hours 33 |
|
Nanny 1/3/2022 - 12/30/2022 |
Age and name of the children Matthew, 4 to 5 years old. Babysitting. | Number 1 | Gender Male | Total hours 132 |
|
Tutoring 2/1/2022 - 5/28/2022 |
Age and name of the children Juan Pablo, 10 years old. English tutoring. | Number 1 | Gender Male | Total hours 52 |
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Babysitter 4/4/2022 - 12/13/2022 |
Age and name of the children Alexa. 1-year-old, babysitting. | Number 1 | Gender Female | Total hours 224 |
|
Tutoring 2/10/2021 - 12/5/2021 |
Age and name of the children Jimena, 13 years old, school work and English tutoring. | Number 1 | Gender Female | Total hours 120 |
Have you been an au pair abroad before No
What kind of experience do you have in house work?
| None | Poor | Intermediate | A lot of | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning up |
Cleaning up
A lot of
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| Ironing |
Ironing
Poor
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| Doing laundry |
Doing laundry
A lot of
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| Vacuuming |
Vacuuming
A lot of
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| Baking |
Baking
Intermediate
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| Preparing Snacks |
Preparing Snacks
A lot of
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| Cooking |
Cooking
Intermediate
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| Gardening |
Gardening
Poor
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I have had so many experiences taking care of kids, and I do have some different experiences with caring for others.
But my favourite experience will always be with my High school best friend's son, he sees me as an aunt and I see him as part of my family. But usually, he likes to be a bit of a troublemaker as a normal toddler, but there is this one time he came into my house and I had a full day planned for us with colouring pages, Play-Doh, and toys, our day was fantastic but as it became later, and later he knew it was time to leave my house and go back to his, and he did not like the idea of it, so he had the brilliant plan of throwing a little temper tantrum, which it was a first with me, he had never behaved that way with me and I had to figure out how to bring him to be calm. But basically, I left him to cry out what he needed and express his emotions and as soon as he was calmer I hugged him and tried to talk out his feelings and explained to him how valid it was for him to be furious to not have more time to enjoy being with me, but he had to appreciate the time we had at my house playing, colouring, running and just being happy there, fortunately, he did understand and felt better afterward and made me feel really happy to be part of a moment of emotional frustration and helped him out to understand it because he is just a kid at the end of the day learning to be a person and exist on this world.
Not only did this experience him as a kid with the difficulty of understanding his emotions, but it has been a really nice experience to be able to take care of kids, and have also the experiences' life has put me through in life to get more skills and experience for my life.
And with the other experiences I do have to clarify it's outside the idea of caring with for kids, but I want to include it because I believe it is a very important thing to share, when I was around 12 years old my grandmother was really sick and due to that, she was put on bed rest because of how hard it was for her to move and do her normal life, and with that happening, I learned how to take care of her, like with giving her baths on her bed, clothe her, feed her, change her diapers. I learned a lot of skills through that experience that I believe came really handy on the future years of my teen years. Because not long after my grandmother passed away, her mother (my great-grandmother) got put on bed rest too.
I got to apply more of those skills with her even when it was a way more difficult with her, because she became papalized, and it made it way harder, but I still believe they not only gave me love and support growing up but the opportunity of taking care of them. In contrast, those difficult moments of their life's gave me more skills to not only care for the ones I love, but for me to mature more on the topic of over coming the difficult time that is having a family member on those conditions. Fortunately, most of the time I had to learn these skills I was with my mother who is a nurse, so I can back up my learning with my mom's experience and guidelines.
Also, I had a cousin with down syndrome, she was 52 years old when she passed in 2019, and my experience with her is more of a friendly family relationship. I used to go to her house and be with her, she was a nice person and made to grow up with the exposure to someone with the special needs she had, because her level of down syndrome was life she was an eternal child, I want to also admit I loved my time with her mostly when I was a kid because it was like having someone else to play with and socialize with, and as I grew I understood my exposure was not a common one, and it made me more grateful to have had her on my life.
And well I am not sure if this other experience counts as it for care, but it does to me, I have had the wonderful opportunity to have pets for as long I can remember, and you can probably know it is not only the excellent and cute things we need to do as people but the hard ones too. In 2021 my brother got a lemon beagle as a gift from a friend of his. And as it always it begins with the beauty of a beginning of life, some difficult paths can come along, unfortunately she was terribly ill, she needed for 2 months (the time she was alive with us) to go to the veterinarian multiple times a day and be taken care of with tube feeding and physical therapy daily, I learned to care for a dog with a disability due to an infection she was born with until the day she died, and my experience, my patience and a lot of my time had to be to her, to my studies and to the kid I took care of at that time.
I am really grateful to have had the experience of taking care of my grandmother, great-grandmother and my dog, and also the life experience with my cousin because not only I have the beautiful experience that I had recollected since I started being a babysitter but the one experience with the special need for others, even if this experience it's not with a kid it can be used in life, and I believe it has been a real journey for me to come by in my life.
But my favourite experience will always be with my High school best friend's son, he sees me as an aunt and I see him as part of my family. But usually, he likes to be a bit of a troublemaker as a normal toddler, but there is this one time he came into my house and I had a full day planned for us with colouring pages, Play-Doh, and toys, our day was fantastic but as it became later, and later he knew it was time to leave my house and go back to his, and he did not like the idea of it, so he had the brilliant plan of throwing a little temper tantrum, which it was a first with me, he had never behaved that way with me and I had to figure out how to bring him to be calm. But basically, I left him to cry out what he needed and express his emotions and as soon as he was calmer I hugged him and tried to talk out his feelings and explained to him how valid it was for him to be furious to not have more time to enjoy being with me, but he had to appreciate the time we had at my house playing, colouring, running and just being happy there, fortunately, he did understand and felt better afterward and made me feel really happy to be part of a moment of emotional frustration and helped him out to understand it because he is just a kid at the end of the day learning to be a person and exist on this world.
Not only did this experience him as a kid with the difficulty of understanding his emotions, but it has been a really nice experience to be able to take care of kids, and have also the experiences' life has put me through in life to get more skills and experience for my life.
And with the other experiences I do have to clarify it's outside the idea of caring with for kids, but I want to include it because I believe it is a very important thing to share, when I was around 12 years old my grandmother was really sick and due to that, she was put on bed rest because of how hard it was for her to move and do her normal life, and with that happening, I learned how to take care of her, like with giving her baths on her bed, clothe her, feed her, change her diapers. I learned a lot of skills through that experience that I believe came really handy on the future years of my teen years. Because not long after my grandmother passed away, her mother (my great-grandmother) got put on bed rest too.
I got to apply more of those skills with her even when it was a way more difficult with her, because she became papalized, and it made it way harder, but I still believe they not only gave me love and support growing up but the opportunity of taking care of them. In contrast, those difficult moments of their life's gave me more skills to not only care for the ones I love, but for me to mature more on the topic of over coming the difficult time that is having a family member on those conditions. Fortunately, most of the time I had to learn these skills I was with my mother who is a nurse, so I can back up my learning with my mom's experience and guidelines.
Also, I had a cousin with down syndrome, she was 52 years old when she passed in 2019, and my experience with her is more of a friendly family relationship. I used to go to her house and be with her, she was a nice person and made to grow up with the exposure to someone with the special needs she had, because her level of down syndrome was life she was an eternal child, I want to also admit I loved my time with her mostly when I was a kid because it was like having someone else to play with and socialize with, and as I grew I understood my exposure was not a common one, and it made me more grateful to have had her on my life.
And well I am not sure if this other experience counts as it for care, but it does to me, I have had the wonderful opportunity to have pets for as long I can remember, and you can probably know it is not only the excellent and cute things we need to do as people but the hard ones too. In 2021 my brother got a lemon beagle as a gift from a friend of his. And as it always it begins with the beauty of a beginning of life, some difficult paths can come along, unfortunately she was terribly ill, she needed for 2 months (the time she was alive with us) to go to the veterinarian multiple times a day and be taken care of with tube feeding and physical therapy daily, I learned to care for a dog with a disability due to an infection she was born with until the day she died, and my experience, my patience and a lot of my time had to be to her, to my studies and to the kid I took care of at that time.
I am really grateful to have had the experience of taking care of my grandmother, great-grandmother and my dog, and also the life experience with my cousin because not only I have the beautiful experience that I had recollected since I started being a babysitter but the one experience with the special need for others, even if this experience it's not with a kid it can be used in life, and I believe it has been a real journey for me to come by in my life.
Knowledge/Skills
What is your native language? Spanish
How good is your level of foreign languages?
| Language | Level | Studied language for | Comments/Certificate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language English | Level Advanced (C1) | Studied language for 3 Year/s | Comments/Certificate Certificated by CONARE |
| Language French | Level Beginner (A1) | Studied language for 1 Year/s | Comments/Certificate certificated by CONARE |
Driving skills
Do you have a driving licence? Yes, with experience
Since when you are driving Oct 2022
How often do you drive? Daily
You have experience with driving in The City, The Countryside, The Motorway
You have experience driving a car with Automatic Transmission
Additional knowledge and skills
Did you attend a first-aid training? Yes
What is your swimming level? Good
Are you able to ride a bicycle? No
Can you do horse riding? No
Do you play any musical instruments? No
Do you play sports? No
If you have any other areas of knowledge or skills, please describe them below:
I love art in general, I am not saying I am good at it, but I like to try, also in high school I used to be on the drama club and I have a huge fascination for acting, and also painting and sculptures. And that is something I like to do with kids, buy polymer air clay and create toys or just something fun then paint it and have it either as a toy or a fun cute decoration.
I also love to go to the gym and go for a swim, right not my physical activity is on stand by due to lack of time because of my job as an interpreter, but I am looking to start again as soon as possible.
I am also a fast learner and always try to make life easier for me and others, because this life is short, and we don't need to overcomplicate it. And that is something to help me have long conversations with people and try to be able to help them out with things they need help.
I also love to go to the gym and go for a swim, right not my physical activity is on stand by due to lack of time because of my job as an interpreter, but I am looking to start again as soon as possible.
I am also a fast learner and always try to make life easier for me and others, because this life is short, and we don't need to overcomplicate it. And that is something to help me have long conversations with people and try to be able to help them out with things they need help.
Please describe your hobbies
As I already shared I love art, but also I have some little abilities that for me are more like hobbies, I like to embroider and to stitch up things, I have pets, and they have a lot of plushies and toys and when they tear them apart I like to sit up and repair them if it is possible.
You can only send a massage to Maria Celeste if you are interested in this applicant (see above).
Contact
415-376-0202
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