WoodyEma

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Description

Hello lovely people!

We are Woody & Emanuela and our toddler Aurora, all living in the small village of Martvili in Georgia. In 2018 we bought an old house with a big garden on the Georgian countryside, renovated it with a lot of love and opened a boutique hostel.

You can check us out on instagram
https://www.instagram.com/karmahostelmartvili

Over the past 5 years we hosted numerous Workawayers. They helped us with renovations, doing daily household chores, gardening and, of course, creating life in the hostel. It has been an amazing to experience how different personalities can become part of our little community and family and genuinely contribute to our project.

Now we are searching for interesting projects to give back some of the love we received over the years. We'd love to explore other places to see how other hosts create and manage their space and contribute in whatever way we can be useful for you.

Interests

Languages spoken

English: Fluent
Dutch: Fluent
Polish: Fluent
French: Intermediate
Georgian: Intermediate
Russian: Intermediate

Skills and knowledge we'd like to share or learn

Some knowledge of:  

Eco Projects

Life at a Farmstay

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Able to teach about:  

Gardening

DIY and building projects

Creating/ Cooking family meals

Helping around the house

Hospitality/Tourism

General Maintenance

More details about your skills

What can we help with?

Since we've been through the whole process of designing, building, maintaining, promoting and managing a hostel, we've gathered a lot of skills and experience to contribute to your project. We're efficient workers and take pride in doing a good job and finishing the work that we start.

Cooking – We're both highly skilled in cooking vegetarian meals for big groups (up to 40+ people) including creating a menu with whatever ingredients are available and food presentation. Preparing garden fruit jams and homemade lemonade (Emanuela)

Cleaning – Eye for detail and high cleaning standards

Online business promotion (Emanuela) – Professional photographer and social media content creation to promote your business (you can check out our instagram page for our style)

Hostel management – Making schedules, arranging tasks and managing our crew and group of volunteers.

Permaculture (Emanuela) – vegetable garden with raised beds, herbs, tomatoes, composting, weeding

Landscaping – designing a garden into distinct spaces using flower beds, paths, pruning trees & bushes etc

Construction work (Woody) – Welding (chairs and benches), woodwork (wooden floors, kitchen bench and install doors), electricity (map out and install lights and plugs circuits but not the plug box), plumbing (showers, pipes, toilets, pump installation), pouring concrete floors, bricklaying, laying a terrace with reclaimed bricks,

Design & arts – creating visually-attractive, comfortable and practical spaces typically with found/recycled materials. Macramé (Emanuela) Mosaic (Emanuela & Woody)


Finally, non-work related :)

Woody – love movement, circus and practicing a lot of handstand lately, enjoy a lot to socialise in the evening with a glass after a good day of work. Good music, dancing and a party (although it does not happen often anymore now that we baby). I want to learn to play the bongos.


Emanuela – Gardening is absolutely something I adore to do, it's pure relaxation. I like practicing yoga and waking up early in the morning.

Age

31 & 36

What else ...

We are travelling with our 14-month old daughter. She's very social and pretty easy-going. We are doing fine running our hostel with her around. When she has her good days all goes pretty smooth and we can work while she is with us – except for certain dirty or power tools jobs.

However once in a while when she has a bad day, then only one of us will be able to work while the other looks after of her and we can switch during the day.

Some more information

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  Smoker

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  Driver's licence

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  Allergies

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  Special dietary requirements
  Emanuela is vegetarian, Woody eats meat from time to time but likes (and cooks) mainly vegetarian