To: CharleyMike who wrote (22196 ) 8/15/2001 6:20:29 PM From: E Read Replies (2) | Respond to I had one part time maid, mornings only, five days a week. She got a week off at Christmas, paid, to return to her home village, two weeks off, paid, of regular annual vacation, paid sick leave, and she could go back to her home village any time we were traveling. She took classes in the afternoon to get a GED. I was her tutor. She was 'allowed' to have visitors in her 'quarters' (amazingly, this was almost unheard of.) I paid her more than double what the municipal official who lived next door paid his 14 hour a day, 6 1/2 day per week servants. I have nothing to be ashamed of, and had remarkably little to get used to in the way of 'life style' change when, after five years, i returned to this country. Not the usual pattern. I knew expats in the country who would never have a maid again who raised their young children to kick off their shoes in the direction of the African maid, who was to scrape off any dirt and polish them before the children put them on again.
