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Hello everyone :)
I’m Amanda, I ‘m a free lance consultant, my family is simple, me and my two sons, they have basic understanding of English, Spanish, French and German and I hope that they will try to do the best to communicate in different languages.
I hope that we make you feel comfortable, we will do the best to includes you in as much as family activities to whole family celebrations, we will appreciate your opinions and your advices, if all it will be right, you can stay with us for long time !
The other family members are all very welcoming and will let you feel at home.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Teaching
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You can learn or improve your Italian, enjoy Italian food and visit cities full of art and culture!
We live in the North of ITALY between Milan and Como, it’s a little peace of heaven, were you can relax without rumors, you'll enjoy the nature around with walk, bird watching and relax yourself with beautiful scenary,
There are also so many things to be visited: there are Como lake’s, with particular and exclusive place like Menaggio, Bellagio and so on. We live 5 minutes from railway station to connect with Milan, were there are full of shopping places, bars, all of the best a big city can offer.
With fast trains, you can go where you want, even in Rome !!!
You are also welcome to use one of our bicycles.
Projects involving children
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Help
We are looking for an English or/and French or/and German mother tongue person who genuinely loves children and has a natural ability to care for them, we need someone who can help children with homeworks and studying, play or go for a walk with the guys, riding a bicycle or every sports the weather allows!
We will wake up 6 days a week at 6.30 a.m. to go to school, soooo ... we will go to bed early in the evenign!!!
You will have lunch with the guys and after you will make homeworks.
Homeworks and study for first, probably you will be bringing them to soccer camp or other sports, awaiting and than return home, so we need someone that is able to drive a car, not with automatic engine, so you need to have a drive license that is valid in Italy and capable to drive car with manual transmission and it would be useful for you to stay more than a month.
Kindly, the possible volunteers should not think that this is a free hostel, but a family in which to live and collaborate, the work is not heavy but we ask for education, respect and cleanliness. The house is big and the there are a lot of possibilities to help , for example, cleaning, wash the dishes and little help in not heavy work, but the priority is the guys, the study and the extra-curricular activities, sport and games.
We would like you to be like a frien to our sons being responsible and assertive at the same time and to be able to easily fit into our family routine.
We wish that she/he will be very responsible and trustful, very active and creative to motivate the guy, very enthusiastic, someone that should be sensitive and caring but able to control the situation.
Our ideal person should be flexible, hard working, efficient, reliable, honest, good humored (smile!), clean and tidy. We ask basic skills in cleaning and appreciate people with initiative and imagination, we ask flexibility and we are flexible too because we would like to leave peacefully all together.
So you would have free afternoons and when they finished the sports activities, we can choose together your days off.
Internet or mobile phone fanatics are not very welcome ( we share the lunch and dinner without mobile in hands or on the table).
CHECK AT OUR CALENDAR!
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
French: Intermediate
German: BeginnerThis 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
Food and lodging are provided !!!
You will have your bed but share the room, internet access, you will share bathroom and we will appreciate if you leave it clean.
You will have basic groceries and our kitchen to cook or you may share meals with us.
Usually it is best for our workawayer to help to prepare breakfast and stay with the guys, brign to e from school, about lunch and dinner, we will prepare them together and if you want to learn the basics of Italian food will be fantastic!
Free time: you will free from Saturday morning since sunday evening ( not late than 19.00 p.m.), if the guys are not sick, you will have all the morning free that you can spend as you like ( it's better that you will organize by yoursef ).
What else ...
We live 5 minutes from railway station to connect with Milan and bus to Como so you can visit Switzerland too
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
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Can possibly accept pets
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How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (9)
Amanda ist eine wundervolle Person, temperamentvoll,… read more
E' un ragazzo educato, gentile, sempre sorridente, disponibile, si è adattato velocemente alla nostra routine quotidiana, aveva la mia stessa idea di pulizia e mi chiedeva sempre se poteva aiutarmi in qualche modo.
Personalmente, ho molto apprezzato la sua compagnia, Armin condivideva con me il suo… read more
Ben stayed with us 15 days, in the morning he helped me in the housekeeping and in the afternoon helped Elettra and Aronne with homework, playing football with Aronne in the meadow or challenged the WII with sports games, had a lot of fun and… read more
Right from meeting at the train station on the first night I felt like family and Amanda was so comforting the whole… read more
Amanda… read more
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Amanda ist eine wundervolle Person, temperamentvoll,… read more
E' un ragazzo educato, gentile, sempre sorridente, disponibile, si è adattato velocemente alla nostra routine quotidiana, aveva la mia stessa idea di pulizia e mi chiedeva sempre se poteva aiutarmi in qualche modo.
Personalmente, ho molto apprezzato la sua compagnia, Armin condivideva con me il suo… read more
Ben stayed with us 15 days, in the morning he helped me in the housekeeping and in the afternoon helped Elettra and Aronne with homework, playing football with Aronne in the meadow or challenged the WII with sports games, had a lot of fun and… read more
Right from meeting at the train station on the first night I felt like family and Amanda was so comforting the whole… read more
Amanda… read more
Dopo i primi giorni, abbiamo cercato di far incastrare tutti gli impegni e le esigenze di ognuno, Gaelle ha sempre fatto del suo meglio, ma mi rendo conto che per tenere il ritmo di due ragazzi di 11 e 13 anni, serve molta energia :)
E' stata disponibile a dare una… read more
J'ai paqqé un très bon séjour. Les enfants son bien éduqué, Adelchi a toujours un petit mot pour rire et Amanda fait tout pour que vous vous sentiez comme chez vous.
Si vous hésitez encore à rejoindre cette famille, foncez, vous y serez bien.
Merci Amanda pour ton accueil et ta joie de vivre
They had a lot of fun with the guys, playing with the card, going for a walk or… read more
She liked the countryside and the forest near our house,… read more
Speaking Spanish was really funny, it's a… read more
En cuanto al trabajo que uno tiene que hacer Amanda me proporcionó todo lo… read more
I spent a lot of time with the children by… read more
Pieter is polite, friendly and always smiling, the work he has done for us was perfect, it was a pleasure to spend our time with him !!!
We wish him a lot of luck on his journey!
