Au Pair in Switzerland

Au Pair in Switzerland

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Gitte Toben

Completing an Education

"So I left, and studied French and German and a little bit of everything, and when I got back I decided, 'Well, I’m going to try nursing school.'"

"In 1969, I graduated from high school, which over there is called Eksem, the real exam. Oof! And I did pretty good, so right after that—well I had dated a young man at that point, and both his parents were handicapped, and he hated nurses, and he didn’t want me to be a nurse, so I was looking into teaching physical therapy but crafty, ergonomic therapy, maybe, but he found somebody else, so I became a jeune fille au pair in Geneva, Switzerland.

So I left, and studied French and German and a little bit of everything, and when I got back I decided, 'Well, I’m going to try nursing school.'