My American Dream

I was introduced to my American employer by a friend who used to work part time with them. They decided to hire a full time maid because they are having another baby [ which i didn't know about] Having been working with a local family for 4 long years, I decided to move into a new invironment. The thought of me getting every Sunday off with my new employer excites me [I manage to get a twice a month off from my previous employer]. Plus the fact that I have no more curfews. My previous employer impose this rule to me that by 5 pm I should be home to cook or feed the children. Some employers have this kind of practice which is I find it rediculous. I use to hear maids grumbling at the bus stop at 4 pm saying how short the time is for them. They wished they could stay out longer and not rushng home when the sun is still shining brightly... I was in the same boat as them so I know how it feels .
The thought of me not going to rush to the bus stop again at 4 pm makes me smile.
I was looking forward to attend every sunday service in our church and be able to meet my friends on weekends. We go to the same church on our offdays.
My new employer is a young couple with 5 and 2 years old daughters. The man is working but works home for some days, he works for an American newspaper as a financial columnist while the lady is a stay home mum.for the kids. He travels for work once in while.
They seems a nice couple when i first meet them. They prefer me to call them with their first name rather than sir or ma'am. Which I felt is more appropiate as our age gap is not that much. I am the same age as my male boss , my female boss is 2 years younger then me. I will call them Pete and Shar [name change to protect their identity]
I have no idea what my work will be aside from helping her to look after the girls. I was given an instruction to focus on the children. Not to worry about cooking , cleaning or laundry.. My head start to get muddled as soon as I start working with them. Shar expected me to be around while she plays with them, so the girls will get to know me.. Fine for me [but not long] . Feed the children when they are hungry not necessarily wait for proper meal time which is breakfast, lunch and dinner. For them meal is a snack..And let them feed themselves which is kind of weird to me [ maybe i used to spoonfeed my previous employers kids ].Naturally food is all over the floor not into the childrens mouth. When I attempt to help them feed them Shar would say it's ok they can feed themselves. Maybe she is trying to teach them to be independent but for goodness sake this kids needs to eat properly .
Every meal time kitchen is a whole mess, foods thrown all over the place. This maybe kind of normal to them but it is killing me.. I am very tidy person and trying my best to keep this house tidy as much as possible but with these 2 throwing food kids is impossible. My nightmare didn't stop there. Once, I was doing my housework when suddenly Shar asked me to stop and bring the girls to the park so that they can play. For goodness sake it is middle of the day and the sun outside is scorching hot. I have to push this double trolley with 2 kids on it in the middle of the day and walked half a kilometer to get to the park. She said she will get an hour nap and instructed me to come back an hour later. I have not eaten my lunch and I had only a cup of coffee and a piece of toast for breakfast and this inconsiderate person ask me to bring out this kids so that they could play and she can get a nap. Honestly, I wished I could protest but she is my employer and I have just started working with them.
Pete is the nicest of the 2, when he is around he will ask if I'm eaten or he will bring the kids out so that I could rest. Of course I wont be resting cos I still have to do some other things at home. With 2 kids throwing everything inside the house, the place obviously needs tidying up if there is a chance. If there are so called messy person Shar is one of them. I'm not sure if she ever know how to clear her mess but I'm sure I have not seen her making an effort to practice it. It makes me squirm by the sight of her used underwear in the bathroom floor. Why cant' she just throw them inside the laundry basket.
My temper is thinning everyday and so as my patient. I tried to ignore her weird behaviour thinking that maybe its part of her mood swings caused by her pregnancy. But one day she makes me snap when she accused me of hitting her eldest daughter. The eldest daughter suddenly cry for no apparent reason [ she does that all the time] . And everytime she does it , she would ask me what I did to her.For God sake I never left a finger to anyone how could she suspect me of hitting this small girl.
One morning while the girls are playing at the backyard I was also there attending to the girls and Shar is just a few steps away talking on the phone [as always]. When suddenly the eldest girl started crying, Shar looked up at me and said " what did you do?" I said nothing, but the girl accused me of hitting her which i didnt do. Shar got up and growled at me like she is going to eat me whole. I said i didnt do anything but she didnt believe me. I raised my voice in protest but she just doens;t listen. I went inside and left the girls with her, I shut myself inside my room and felt so angry. I never get angry that much in my entire life but this time i'm really really angry. I wanted to leave in that moment but wasnt sure where to go. I started packing my stuff in case she ask me to leave. After an hour she came to my door knocking and when i open the door she asked me to leave because she doesnt want to see me again. In a foreign country where you dont have anybody to turn to except your friends what choice can you make. I called the person who intruduced me to my employer and told her what happen. She ask me to go ang ask for an apology to my employer. How can i ask an apology if i know that i didnt do anything wrong with them. And how can I ak for an apology if she wanted me to leave on the moment? Yes, I am a maid but I have my pride and i know deep in my heart that i didnt do anything wrong to be treated that way. In that afternoon I left my employers place and stay in a friends place for a month. Can you imagine because of those nasty employer i was left with no job, no income , nowhere to go....in a foreign country.