"...and I was there for the summer, working as an au pair..."
"...and I was there for the summer, working as an au pair..."
NB. This is Important.
previously missed this comment from page 123 of “Dreams...,” about Stanley Ann Dunham spending the summer of 1960 in Chicago
... I wonder what she got herself into while there?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2278969/posts?page=294#294
Here's page 123 from the book, "Dreams":
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2278969/posts?page=295#295
[Thanks for helping with the screenshot, anonymous.]
I saw that surprising discussion on another thread. Didn’t know what to make of it. Aren’t the dates confusing? Didn’t someone say the movie opened up in Chicago in 1959?
Stanley Dunham in Hawaii in 1959; Stanley Ann graduates from high school in 1960. That year (1960) Mother joins husband Stanley in Hawaii.
So we are to presume that after Stanley Ann graduated from high school in Washington, mother left for Hawaii to join husband Stanley, and Stanley Ann, having been accepted at U of C, migrated to Chicago to take a position as an au pair.
Parents allow this, even though Stanley had not ok’d the U of C. Seems to me that Stanley Ann’s employers would have to have been well known to her parents.
She works there for the summer and receives news from father that he will not allow her to go to U of C. She then joins parents in Hawaii. She was registered to go to U of Hawaii that year (1960) -— and is pregnant by November.
Even if movie showing in 1959 is a mistake (could it have run in Chicago theater for 6 mos to 1 yr?), the timing is very compressed.
Am I missing something?
An au pair (plural: au pairs) is a foreign-national domestic assistant working for, and living as part of, a host family. Typically, au pairs take on a share of the family’s responsibility for childcare as well as some housework, and receive a ...
???? WTH???