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Danish family looking for help with teaching our daughter Freya riding on her pony and some painting outside, cleaning, gardening some cooking and teaching English and if possible french 😁 and walk with our small dog.
We are a friendly Danish family with 3 children. 15, 23, 26 years old, all girls. The 2 oldest daughters lives together with their boyfriends and have moved out.
I, Birgitte Work as a Project Manager in the retail and control the building of new shops and rebuilding and my husband Henrik are self-employed and works with ventilation.
We live in an old house from 1910 next to Frederiksborg Castle and in walking distance from shopping center with walking Streets and the train station. The train takes 35 minutes directly to Copenhagen Center. The house is with 4 stocks, basement, ground floor, 1 stock and 2 stocks.
You will get your own room with a lot of space, TV and Wi-Fi.
The help will be around 4 hours pr day 5 days a week, (weekends off),
We just bought a pony for Freya and She is called Cikorie, and she is 8 years old but still not very trained. It would be great if you have a good level in riding and could help our daughter a couple of times during the week and also be able to ride.
Cikorie is placed 15 minutes biking from our home in a little stable with 21 horses.
We only have to do the stable work every Thursday and every 4 Saturday.
Some work will also be cleaning, helping in the garden, cooking, painting wood houses in the garden and teaching English or French to Freya and help out with homework and other easy things.
Freya loves to play a game of card or board games and this can also be a way of learning her English.
Freyas English is quite good and she reads a lot of English Fantasy books.
The park is very nice to run in or just walk around even at winter time the castle is like a ferrytale. Henrik and I take salling lessons 1 Day pr week.
We eat all kinds of food and love to try new things, we prefers that you also are able to eat all types of food :) We are a non smoking Family.
We have a little dog Felix who loves a walk in the park close to the house.
If you speak English as your 1, this would be great.
We work during the day from early morning to afternoons. The most of the work you have to help with, will be during the day. The work is between 4 to 5 hours pr day Monday - Friday, so you can explore the surroundings and Copenhagen during weekends, or take a trip to London, Berlin or other during a weekend.
The family loves to meet new people from all over the world and is looking forward to hear from you. We will supply you with all meals when you are in our house.
We have only room for 1 workaway.
Br Birgitte & Henrik
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
if you like to cook you can learn a lot about Danish food as we love making food from scratch. We can also tell a lot about Danish/Nordic culture and help you with the Danish language. We like to stay in touch with the people who has been in our home, if they also like too after their stay and some comes back a second time or just for a dinner if they are in Copenhagen. Please reed all the feedback as it will tell a lot how we are as a family and how you will benefit of a stay in our home
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Help
In spring and summer. The garden is well Kept but needs normal maintainance
Cleaning the house inside and some outside(around 2 hours pr day)
English lessons
If you like to cook, making dinner 1 time pr week, or bake a cake :)
looking after Freya and play games with her
Walk Felix in the park
Languages
Languages spoken
Danish: Fluent
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
French: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
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Accommodation
Private home with very nice room with TV and Wifi
You will share bathroom with another girl living in our house who is 26.
What else ...
Lovely Nature with Carstle and close to Copenhagen the Capital of Denmark.
Hillerød is a very nice old city with walking streets and lovely restaurents.
30 min with train will bring you up to the cost where you will find the most lovely beach and nature or you can take the train to Copenhagen Center and see all the old Buildings and Towers, muserums, and just feel the Danish way of living.
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
4-5 hours pr Day (max 25 hours/week), 2 days off
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Thanks a lot for your kind feedback
It was great to get to know you and learn you all about Danish rye bread 😄😄😄😄 and the topping.
All the best in the future
I stayed for five weeks The main tasks involve cleaning the house, gardening,… read more
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Thanks a lot for your kind feedback
It was great to get to know you and learn you all about Danish rye bread 😄😄😄😄 and the topping.
All the best in the future
I stayed for five weeks The main tasks involve cleaning the house, gardening,… read more
Thanks for your very nice feedback.
Jake was the first guy who came to our home with workaway, and absolutely not the last. Jake has taken the given work with a great portion of "I will do my best " and this he did. All paint he help with is done perfectly and he cleaned up every day after work, without us telling him. Jake painted in god… read more
As soon as I arrived they made me feel completely at home and very welcome, I felt as if I had a second family. They invited me to join in with lots of their activities, going to the beach with them, going on… read more
Chiara stayed with us as described and from the first day she was very good company and a very good help. All task was done very well and it was very easy to have Chiara in our home.
Chiara bakes and prepares fantastic cakes and desserts and make the best lasagne. All very popular in the family and we are… read more
Hospitality and family environment: even before arriving I have been made to feel part of the family. Indeed, before my arrival Birgitte wrote me that in my first week there would have been the previous… read more
Thank you so much for your kind words. We have been so happy for all your help and your sweet way of taking care of Freya. She improved a lot in English during your stay and she loved to spend time with you and also making your amazing drawings. We are very lucky to have met you and learn about your life. All work you help us with… read more
The work was not difficult - a typical day for me would be to spend a few hours in the morning doing… read more
We have made a arrangement for nearly 3 month time with Dana and the 2 has passed already. Dana is doing a great work with all tasks we give her and always with a very positive attitude, we can not thank her enough for her help.
Some of the time Dana spend with Freya to teach her… read more
The work is never too difficult and normally consists of housekeeping in the… read more
All the work Charlotte did for us was always perfect and she never gave up or… read more
If you travel with workaway again, I can only give you my very best recomendation to others Familys. For sure you will get a great warm, openminded, nice hard working… read more
Thank you for your very nice feed back. We appreciated so much your stay at our house.
Jessica was a great help in all the jobs we asked her to help with. We especially had a great pleasure when she could help both our oldest daughters in math :) and a great help with English teaching.
We also enjoyed to learn many new… read more
Most of the work was general household tasks: a couple of hours cleaning in the mornings, picking Freya up from school, cooking dinner, helping with homework and walking the dog Felix (my summer… read more
I did work such as keeping the house clean, cooking, and quite a bit of gardening. Half way through the day I would then pick their youngest… read more
Melanie has also been doing gardening, cleaning the house and polishing the windows, and everything was made perfeckt. We love to… read more
I spent most of my days cleaning the house (vacuuming, mopping, window washing). Some days I picked up… read more
Anna is a very nice person and has been a great help in the house and with our children. Anna has been like a member of our family and we are sorry to say goodbye. I am sure that Anna will be an efficient help anywhere in the world and with any type of work. She has the best… read more
