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Looking for a female to come and help with housework daily cleaning and tidying the house and patios. Dusting hoovering tidying.
Moving things around and organzing garage and helping clean and furnish a flat by the beach.
1 month stay. 3rd week April to mid May.
We are an English /Spanish family living in Gandia Spain. we love CATS, Horses, and love most animals and love traveling and meeting people from all cultures. we have 4 adorable cats who are so affectionate and human-like. Everyone falls in love with them! Also a Hamster!!
We have years and years of experience welcoming students on English language immersions and also work aways for the last
9 years. As you can see from our feedback, the girls that come and stay have a great time, we receive letters and cards and photos from our work aways every year and even the very first one who came still writes to us!
We are cat lovers and need a cat lover to help with our 3 cats and and mainly and help with daily household tasks like cleaning tidying the house.
you will gain language practice in English or Spanish
You will also learn about pet care, for cats, again, I worked with animals for 28 years and can teach you many things about pet care!
And finally, you can learn about keeping a house tidy and clean, timekeeping and routine in a household with a working mum, schooling child, and pets!
You will learn and grow culturally and also you will learn how it is to be a one parent family and manage a household.
You will also see a new city!Gandia is very pretty and large town 100,000 inhabitants and has fabulous blue flag beaches. We are living in village 12 minutes outside the city by car or bus. There is a swimming pool next door and cafes bars etc.
And if you have an interest in languages, we speak Spanish also, so we can speak in Spanish! But mainly we speak English at home.
We do look for only a female as we are 2 females, thats me and my 14yrs old daughter
Looking for English or Spanish speaking female...
As long as you speak English or Spanish it is fine!
We would welcome a caring, loyal helpful girl who is not afraid to get stuck in and help out.
Please make sure you are happy to travel by yourself from wherever you are to us in Gandia. I will collect you from Gandia Train station. Nearest airport is Valencia.
Our house is very comfortable and we have all mod cons.
Please note that there is NO facility to cook your own meals. I provide the evening meal.
Types of help and learning opportunities
DIY and building projects
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Improve your English language or Spanish , gain life skills like keeping a home, looking after cats, , and how to be responsible. And care for cats.
Help
Painting properly a flat
help with cleaning of house and tidying house
ironing when clothes need ironing
Playing with the cats
tidying of kitchen after meals
We speak English and Spanish and Catalan
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
Accommodation
own room and meals and wifi
Sorry no catering for vegans or vegetarians or special diets.
We eat healthy meals only white meat and gluten free
What else ...
Gandia is great city and lots of villages around us beautiful blue flag beaches.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Hours expected
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week, 2 days off
Feedback (10)
My chores included:
- Keeping the house & garden in a neat state
- Ironing if needed
- Cleaning up after meals
- Helping out with the cats
Debora is an incredibly strong woman with a good sense of humor, she made me feel safe and at home… read more
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Cultural exchange:
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Communication:
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My chores included:
- Keeping the house & garden in a neat state
- Ironing if needed
- Cleaning up after meals
- Helping out with the cats
Debora is an incredibly strong woman with a good sense of humor, she made me feel safe and at home… read more
This was my first workaway experience. The project was to help Maria to move with her lovely daughter Lucia from Spain to England, so I had the opportunity to experience a move and to visit two different countries in two and a half months. My main tasks were cleaning the house, sometimes ironing, taking care of the cats, going for… read more
It was her 1st time away from home and it took her a while to settle into a different routine and timings but she adapts really well and ia eager to please! I cant thank her enough for her help with oir house move which was ongoing over few weeks, she was incredible and such a help to me, I couldnt have done it… read more
Maria is a really sweet, nice and warm-hearted lady who would like to share many things/ lovely interesting life experiences with you. And she has a pretty nice taste of the house's decoration. Can't love it more.
And Lucia is one of the sweetest little girls that I… read more
My daughter really loved playing with her and we will miss her so much.......
We really were honoured to have met… read more
We really enjoyed having her with us.
Thank you Alessandra
Was a pleasure for me to help Maria, she’s a busy woman and there was always something to do; my main tasks were walking the dog in the morning, cleaning and tidying the house, sometimes ironing, helping with the shopping or taking care of Lucia, she’s a great girl, always full of energy and… read more
We were so sad to see her go..genuinly the nicest most helpfull girl you could care to meet..
She deserves the best in life and her future.
We love you.. xxx
Thank you for everything, please… read more
I felt like a member of the family from the first day. Lucia is a lovely and creative girl- I always had fun with her playing games, horses or whatever came up to her mind. I… read more
