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Hi, I'm Andrew, thanks for looking at our profile,
We are a family of 3 living in the suburbs of Newcastle about 10 mins from the local beaches. I have 2 kids (15yo & 17yo), enjoy cafes and going to the beach and playing in our pool. (The photos are our pool and our local beaches). We also like cycling and playing games, chilling out and chatting with friends.
My two kids attend the local school which is just up the road.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
One of the great things is getting to know the kids and teaching and learning from them about how a household runs in Australia. The strange beetles, spiders, snakes, etc that live here (not at our house though ! ).
I love language. (although I'm not that great at any other than English yet), but I'm more than happy the help you our whit your English picking us grammatical error to make your English sound more natural.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
I spend lots of my time fixing (renovating) houses and love to have people to work with.
Help at work
Generally we get you to help out in the renovations about 21 hours per week each (could be 3 days full time or a few hours each day), fixing the place up and then spend the other time exploring Newcastle and the surrounds.
It helps if you have been involved in building or renovating (or are keen to learn) but we also are looking for people who get on with (our) kids and are happy to get involved in the regular bits of life.
By the way, if you have a background in building please and let us know, having carpenters, plumbers electricians stay is such a blessing and we are super keen to make sure its worth your while.
There are always a huge range of jobs to do like:
• Painting
• Installing joinery
• Gardening
• Attaching fixtures and fittings
• Carpentry
• Hanging new doors
• Putting up new plasterboard onto the walls
Languages
Languages spoken
English: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
Your room is at the back of the house and has a queen sized bed, a desk, bedside tables and lamp... and various hooks around the room to hang your things on. Wwe all share the bathroom and make meals together in the kitchen. There is a laundry that your welcome to use and washing line outside to dry on. And there si a pool out the back your welcome to use.
We live in a 4 bedroom house in a suburbs of Newcastle called Waratah, Waratah has a local shopping center with Coles and KMart and about 15 other little shops.
We have NBN internet which is pretty good and achieves 10-40 Mb/s (good for Zoom and Skype).
The new house has 1 bathroom which we are currently renovating. there is a great indoor deck looking over the pool and facing east which is really nice in the morning sun.
What else ...
Generally we are looking for people who are going to fit in with our family. People who are: Independent, friendly, hardworking, willing to work in the team to get things done and solve problems.
One of the biggest things is people who have some life experience and know how to help out without direct instruction.
What else...
We try to offer the best in accommodation and hospitality so you have your own room - no sleeping in refurbished shipping containers or caravans.
We have built up a helper’s book over time with lots of suggestions of things you can do around Newcastle.
So if you’d like to be involved in our life and projects, send us a message and we can hopefully get to know each other better in the coming weeks and months.
So come and stay, it’s a great life and a great place to stay
Looking forward to meeting you soon.
Andrew, Annalise and Liam
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Digital working your way around the globe? - Awesome, I work from home too! (as an Architect) so can totally help out with where to get printing (if you need it) understand strange work hours to fit in wiht other countries (my draftsman is in Turkey and book keeper in the Pnhilipines). There is a desk in your room which you can set up for meetings etc. The internet is good (most of the time - recently the internet company has been upgrading the local network so we will soon (est July 2024) have fiber connection to the house.
Space for parking camper vans
Our driveway is a little narrow so not really suitable for large motor homes, but your average campervan fits just fine. There is however free unlimited parking on the stree - right out the front of of house and you can usually get a spot.
Can possibly accept pets
This host has said they are willing to accept those travelling with a pet.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
4 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (21)
Particularly, Annalieses, my 17 year old, very quickly grew fond of them and was sad when they left.
The girls are really lovely polite and helpful around the house. I didn't mind any of the jobs we set for them and carried out everything well.
Their English is still developing but we didn't have any… read more
Productive and enjoyable at the same time where both of us were able to get stuck into work around the house. We both now feel we have gained new skills we would have not otherwise learned - how cool!
Andrew is kind, welcoming and made us two women feel very safe during our stay there. He is super friendly and… read more
Ellis and Jas have a really lovely demeanor, are beautigul people and were a great help around the house. They're also both really independent… read more
Nina's ability to connect with Annaliese, our 16-year-old daughter, was awesome. They got… read more
I am very grateful to have met you, Andrew!
Thank you for the conversations, the help… read more
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Particularly, Annalieses, my 17 year old, very quickly grew fond of them and was sad when they left.
The girls are really lovely polite and helpful around the house. I didn't mind any of the jobs we set for them and carried out everything well.
Their English is still developing but we didn't have any… read more
Productive and enjoyable at the same time where both of us were able to get stuck into work around the house. We both now feel we have gained new skills we would have not otherwise learned - how cool!
Andrew is kind, welcoming and made us two women feel very safe during our stay there. He is super friendly and… read more
Ellis and Jas have a really lovely demeanor, are beautigul people and were a great help around the house. They're also both really independent… read more
Nina's ability to connect with Annaliese, our 16-year-old daughter, was awesome. They got… read more
I am very grateful to have met you, Andrew!
Thank you for the conversations, the help… read more
When I arrived in Newcastle, the bus dropped me off in the center of the village and Andrew came to pick me up with his beautiful car. Immediately, the current passed between us. He explained… read more
Willie and I worked together… read more
she helped out with cleaning some bricks that we will be using for a recycled brick wall, tidying up the tool shed and helping to create a shadow… read more
The afternoons where lovely - if the kids where home or not - and it was always fun spending… read more
She was able to to get loads of the job's we set on the to-do list done, many of them autonomously. She fit in really well with the kids and Annaliese grew very fond of her.
I would thoroughly recommend her for future hosts.
Andrew
these 2 are so self sufficient, they organised their own fun in the time off and were really good at painting plastering and helping frame a wardrobe.
I was so impressed that I refer them on to my family who then hosted them as their first work away experience another great win.
I'd recommend these guys… read more
We felt at home straight away with great accommodation and access to loads of places around Newcastle. Andrew was an excellent host and we learnt so much from DIY to renovating to sushi making!
He took us to local beaches and out for pizza and we even… read more
They worked hard and were… read more
It was very pleasant. Andrew and his two children are a warm family.
We worked 20 hours / week organized on 2 days and 1/2. Andrew is a patient person who took the time to share his handyman knowledge! (Assembly of kitchen, painting, insulation, household etc). He is also attentive and rich in exchange.… read more
If this guy offers to coem to your place you should take him up...
Matt is Brilliant, between hardworking, humble, and able to undertake tasks unsupervised (and even without being requested).
We did heaps of things together from building work, to building his camper car (including cook top, sink and benches!)
He initially planned to… read more
He was helpful around the house as well as laying concrete and framing timber. He was also able to work to a list of tasks when I wasn’t able to be around which… read more
Everything was great; we loved working at the house project, playing with the kids (in the pool!!), having a room and bathroom upstairs to ourselves, we enjoyed Ruth's amazing cooking! They let us borrow their bikes and gave us… read more
Thanks for your work Henning
Highly recomend - fantastic with kids and willing to keep working above and beyond! Miss em lots. Ruth
The time was just fun and ran by soo quickly :) We had a lot of leisure time and hours for ourselves and even the work and the game nights were awesome!
Thanks for the time.
The only thing we can do, is to recommend this family to all Aussie… read more
Working on the new house has been very exciting and we enjoy… read more
Visit them, you definitely won`t regret it :)
Thanks for this fantastic… read more
