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Hello ! We are a Catalan family with one son, Mat, 8 years old. My husband Mateu, is a veterinarian, and I am a biologist, I work in a laboratory. We live in Granollers, a modern city, which promotes all kinds of cultural activities, hosting the International Handball Tournament Cup. Granollers is located 30 minutes by train from Barcelona, and our apartment is five minutes walk from the train station . We are a family open to different cultures and eager to improve our level of English and help us take our child to extracurricular activities. We want to welcome speakers of English / Mandarin and the volunteer . We want the volunteer enjoy with kids and has skills to teach mandarin to kids and help us our english ( my husband and me) .We offer opportunity to have an experience in living the Catalan culture and can enjoy a cosmopolitan city like Barcelona because of the proximity where we lived.
Something more about us, we are very interesting about meditation, spiritual practice and new medicine german.
We offer to stay until 6 mounths
Hola ! Somos una família catalana con un hijo , Mat, de 9 años. Mi marido Mateu, es veterinario, y yo soy biologa, trabajo en un laboratorio. Vivimos en Granollers, una ciudad moderna, que potencia todo tipo de acitvidades culturales, siendo sede del Torneo Internacional de Balonmano Cup. Granollers está situada a 30 minutos en tren de Barcelona, y nuestro piso está a cinco minutos a pie de la estación de tren. Somos una família abierta a las diferentes culturas y con ganas de mejorar nuestro nivel de inglés y nos ayude con el Mandarin de nuestro hijo Mat y llevarlo a las actividades extraescolares. Por lo que deseamos acoger a personas de habla Mandarin/ inglés. Que quieran tener una experiencia , vivenciar la cultura Catalana y pueda disfrutar de una ciudad cosmopolita como es Barcelona por la proximidad donde vivímos.
Algunas cosas más sobre nosotros, estamos muy interesados en la meditación, practicas espirituales y en la nueva medicina germánica.
Ofrecemos estancia en casa hasta 6 meses.Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practiceTeachingBabysitting and creative playCultural exchange and learning opportunities
The volunteer who comes home has the opportunity to have an experience with Catalan culture and be able to live very close to Barcelona, we are 35 minutes by train from Granollers to Barcelona.
Granollers is a reference city within the Vallés region, where the International Handball la Cup events take place every year.
El voluntario que venga a casa tiene la oportunidad de tener una experiencia con la cultura catalana y poder vivir muy cerca de Barcelona, estamos a 35 minutos en tren desde Granollers a Barcelona.
Granollers es una ciudad referente dentro de la comarca del Vallés, es donde cada año se realiza las jornadas internacional de Handball la Cup..Projects involving children
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Hi! We are a family to live in Granollers close to Station Train 'Granollers - Canovelles' (only 6 minutes' walk), line Renfe 3. We are looking a student (speak mandarin and English)to help us to teach mandarin to my son Xiao Long and English to my husband and I.
We offer a place to live room in an Apartament. There is another volunteer, both of you will share the apartment. The timetable that we need is: Monday-Tuesday- Thursday from 19:25h-20:00 and Wednesday from 18-20:00h, Friday from 16:30-17:30h and Sunday from 10:00-12:00 AM. As there are two volunteers, the timetable is fixed but both of you can change shift, which is quite flexible for you.
One day a week, usually on Friday we can dinner together and share a good conversations to share about life.Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Chinese (Mandarin): FluentAccommodation
Single room with desk and wifi in the room and a shared bathroom, kitchen and salon room with other people who live in the apartament.
About the acomodation the volunteer will live in the apartament different that our but in the same building. So, the volunteer need their provide own food, we only offer one lunch a week toghether where we will share a good conversation.
Dispondrá de una habitación individual con escritorio y wifi. Un lavabo, cocina y salón compartido con otros huéspedes que vivan en el apartamento.
Sobre el alojamiento el voluntario vivirá en un apartamento diferente al nuestro pero en el mismo edificio. Entonces, el voluntario necesita proporcionarse su propia comida, sólo ofrecemos un almuerzo a la semana donde compartiremos una buena conversación, normalmente los viernesWhat else ...
You will live in an apartment different from ours, and given our work, you will have a very large margin of freedom. You will have an internet and maybe some other companion in the apartment. We can offer the apartament to leave and sometimes you can shares the apartament with other people who rent rooms for a short time.
. Vivirás en un apartamento distinto al nuestro, y dado nuestro trabajo, tendrás un margen de libertad muy grande. Dispondrás de internet y tal vez algún otro acompañante en el apartamento. A veces alguna habitación del apartamento la alquilamos temporalmente.A little more information
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Limited internet access
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We are smokers
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How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
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Maximum 2 hour a day, 5 days a week
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Xiaolong felt confortable with you all the time, you gave him a quality time with him.
Mateu and me enjoyed every friday lunch you. We was… read more
Aiping is a nice women, so happy, friendly, clever and open mind. we has surprised us the natural curious like a child, that’s wonderful!!!
We was so happy you stayed 3 weeks, it’s was so easy to comunite with you and ww learn a lot of thing about life in… read more
Mateu is very caring, sincere to all volunteers and great dad in family. He is passionate chef after to his family, friends and volunteers. He cooked fish, chicken and healthy food for us. He is a professional farm nutritionist in work running over Spain and Portugal. He told… read more
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Xiaolong felt confortable with you all the time, you gave him a quality time with him.
Mateu and me enjoyed every friday lunch you. We was… read more
Aiping is a nice women, so happy, friendly, clever and open mind. we has surprised us the natural curious like a child, that’s wonderful!!!
We was so happy you stayed 3 weeks, it’s was so easy to comunite with you and ww learn a lot of thing about life in… read more
Mateu is very caring, sincere to all volunteers and great dad in family. He is passionate chef after to his family, friends and volunteers. He cooked fish, chicken and healthy food for us. He is a professional farm nutritionist in work running over Spain and Portugal. He told… read more
He cooked for Xiaolong… read more
...just kidding! Raquel, Mateu, and Mat are some of the kindest people I've ever met. The overall experience was amazing and I would come back in a heartbeat. Raquel and Mat made sure our Spain experience was at its best; they showed us traditional Catalonian cuisine (Mateu is a great cook!), invited us to exciting town events, and… read more
Thank you so much to help to Xiaolong to got the chinesse test from school. It is no easy… read more
You made a lot of thing that we have to say you thank you ... , like doing the Xiao Long class with love like he was your litlle brother, took care King, corrected me my english and all the conversation about the life, the world, economist world that we talked about it each… read more
The first day I arrived, I could feel the warm and welcome from the family. Raquel treated me like their family member, she really helped me a lot in every aspects. Mateu also gave me a lot of new ideas for me. He’s so intelligent! And Xiaolong is really… read more
Before we never lived with an autistic person… read more
Mateu, Raquel and Xiaolong
Its an amazing 5 months spend time with this lovely beautiful family. They taught me a lot...Its wonderful. House is 10 mins to the train. 45 mins to Barcelona… read more
Sorry for the late message. It's been almost 5 months, I left Spain. In 2020, you're the best people I met on my journey. I remembered the day when I arrived, everything was so special for me, we had a lovely dinner together and we changed a lot of knowledge and culture. I really enjoyed the conversation with you… read more
It was a pleasure to have you at home. We spent a great moments with you. We were so sorry for you because Coronavirus didn't let you see the city of Granollers and Barcelona too. But these is a good opportunity to come back again soon. Our home is open for… read more
Xiaolong was very happy to play with you every morning practicing his Mandarin, thanks!! he remembered… read more
They are very nice person and i could not be more happy about that I have had the opportunity to stay with them. i felt very comfortable during my stay.
Recommend Raquel, she is a very friendly and warm person. I have written many words to express my gratitude in Raquel's home, so i just want to… read more
Additionally, in the flat that they offer you to stay, there could be… read more
My husband and I want to give you thanks for all you did it for Mat.
We enjoyed with you in the dinners a lot. We hope to see you some day.
Enjoy your trip in the Camino de Santiago and in… read more