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12 Mar 2023
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Hello! We are a family, Me, my husband and our two little kids. We are living in finnish country side, very near town Kouvola, about only one and half hours fron Helsinki by train.
We have big old wooden house what we are renovating by traditional techniques and materials. We have big (wild) garden with lots of fruit and berry trees. We have Finnish landrace chickens also.
We are looking for house help, babysitter, or helper to our garden and house projects.
We are very open minded family. We have been travelling and also volunteering when we were younger.
Me and my husband both are working at home. I am shoe maker and I have an own barefoot shoe brand called Hukkasiini. My husband has own music studio, Juuri Studio, and he is working as a sound engineer. Our kids are 3 and 5 years old.
We can offer you Finnish lovely home, own room, own peace. We offer you an experience of Finnish style of living, enough freetime to see the country and interesting work with gardening, baby sitting and helping with our renovating project.
Our house is unfinished, not very fancy yet. Our home is little boheme and living with us not so strict. We enjoy culture experiences, exploring nature, having fun freetime with our friends.
We have also old old hut in forest (look the picture) if you are interested to try traditional old style living with no electricity and running water, that is also really nice place for nature adventures.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Finnish way of living, beautifull nature, traditional building and hand craft skills.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
You don't need special skills, we will teach you all, experience with children is useful but not nessessary.
Languages
Languages spoken
Finnish: Fluent
English: Intermediate
Swedish: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
I would love to learn more Swedish! Our kid's are in Swedish lekskolan!
Accommodation
Own room, you can choose eating together or making own food.
What else ...
We have good bus and train connection to every direction in Finland, Mikkeli, Lappeenranta, Kotka and Lahti are near, also Helsinki is easy to go. Repovesi national park is amazing beautiful and just few kilometers from our place. During weekends we can travel to our cottage, it is in neighbour town Iitti, in middle of the forest!
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
Space for parking camper vans
We have big garden and parking area.
Can possibly accept pets
Pet's who are okay with kids and chickens are welcome! Our chickens lives free in our big garden during summer
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
