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Work abroad, integrate in local cultures, learn a language, acquire new skills,
make new friends through......Workaway.info
The site for travel, language and work exchange.
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other Workawayers in your area. It's a great way to meet like minded
people and share ideas.
Workaway.info is a site set up to promote fair exchange between budget travellers,
language learners or culture seekers and families, individuals or organizations who are
looking for help with a range of varied and interesting activities.
Our philosophy is simple:
A few hours honest help per day in exchange for food and accommodation and an opportunity to learn about the local lifestyle and community, with friendly
hosts in varying situations and surroundings.
Our aims are:
- To promote cultural understanding between different peoples and lands throughout the
world.
- To enable people travelling on a limited budget to fully appreciate living and working
in a foreign environment.
- To promote the exchange between people from different nationalities, and give a chance for volunteers to contribute to a cause.
- To enable language learners to experience different countries and immerse
themselves in their target language whilst living abroad.
- To give opportunity to projects around the world to receive support form skilled volunteers and have a real and immediate impact on their projects
How Workaway.info works:
Workaway.info holds a database of families, individuals or organisations in an extensive range of different countries who have registered with us and are looking for volunteer help in a huge range of different fields. From painting to planting, building to babysitting and shopping to shearing, Workaway.info aims to introduce working travellers and language learners to like minded hosts, without having to pay expensive agency fees.
Our hosts are based in many different countries with more and more signing up every day. So whether you are planning that big trip to Australia, thinking of taking a year to do Europe or want to immerse yourself in South American culture, Workaway is the answer for low cost travel!
Area: Auvergne
I am a single-mum of 2 kids. My daughter Margot is 12 years old, she's always happy, funny, and likes travelling, being outside... She practices circus, hip-hop and plays accordeon. She learns English and Spanish at school. My son Sascha is 17 years old. He has got autistic troubles. He's easy-going, can talk and communicate quite well, but can also have a "strange" behavior, well, an autistic one ! ;-) And I can't let him alone, like younger kids (that's why some baby-sitting is needed in case I have to work late in the evening). He's actually in a specialized school 40km away from home (he takes the train by his own), learning professional skills, but he doesn't learn any foreign language.
And I'm a very optimistic person, who enjoys life and finds always the positive in every situation. I like playing music, meeting my friends, travelling (most of the time in Europe with a small camper), couchsurfing or hosting, running, dancing, going to bed late... ;-)
We were already used to hosting friends or couchsurfers at home, and we all three thought it could be a good idea to host foreigners for a longer period, sharing our life, and helping me at home, as it's a bit hard to do everything (as I have an important job and I’ single mum). My kids are really happy about that, and always expect to have a real exchange with people staying at home. As I wish this stay to be an exchange for both, you could share our week-ends if we travel with our camper, meet my friends, go to the cinema, to the swimming pool, or for hiking, ice skating...
Except when there is some baby-sitting to do because of my work for example, there is no special schedules for the help, this lets you time to visit also by your own while I'm working and kids are at school.
We already hosted 30 people, mostly for one month or more, and it was always a good and interesting experience. We like discovering other culture through their eyes, new recipes from all over the world (we love eating, and meals are at home always a great moment !). Most of them are associated to great and special moments, and we are still in contact with nearly all of them ! B-)
We shared nice evenings, week-ends in Lyon, in Paris, at the Mediterranean See, holidays in the Cevennes with the camper, in a camping at the see, one month with our camper in Italy. Some of them also spent few days by my parents in order to visit Vichy, or in Lyon by a friend of mine. And most of them also shared special moments with the kids, like Adrian who taught Sascha how to take the train, or by playing football, hiking, dancing with them...
We really have so nice remembers with :
Alex from Quebec, Beatriz from Spain, Sina from Canada, Graziano from Italy, Alexis and Liz from the States, Sina a second time, Cecile & Guillaume from France, Emily and Alicia from Australia, Katelyn from Canada, Jasmin from Germany, Jazmine from the States, Tatyana from Canada, Hugo from Canada, Melanie from UK, Adrian from Poland/UK, Eoin from Ireland, Omar from Mexico, Louise from UK, Celiya from UK, Anne from Germany, Joanna from Germany, Alex from Germany, Richard from UK, Pauline from the States, Jana from Germany, Michal from Switzerland, Kate from UK and Isobel from UK !
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