Intelligent communication and creative play with my two daughters in Milan, Italy

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  Description

  I am a single mother/choreographer/pilates teacher looking for high vibration person to come live in our home in Milan in exchange for helping me with my two beautiful daughters (2 and 4 years old). We are newly separating, so there is a new dynamic and the girls have a few more emotions than normal.
  
  We speak english in the house and live in an Italian world. The girls speak both languages, and are very keen to learn others ;) I studied and have lived speaking French, German and Spanish, so I would be really delighted to engage in those languages again. I am looking for help to be with them after school when I need to work on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Monday is a big play time/time together with them from 18-22. On Tuesdays you would have 18-20:30 with them, to organise an activity, feed them dinner and give them to their father when he arrives at the house. On Wednesday is 18-21:45 while I teach Pilates again. I need help in the house, taking the rubbish out and cleaning the bathroom, and cleaning up after playtime activities. As I like to keep your workload light, every now and then the school goes on strike or I want to go out to dance. So from time to time I ask for evening babysitting or help keeping the girls during my daytime work hours.
  
  The kids go to their father’s every second weekend, and every Tuesday night.
  
  Im looking for high vibration foods, switched on, intelligent communication with the kids, creative play, dance, music and joy in the house. We don't have a TV, and use the iPad as seldom as possible. I request time with them to be Ipad free, so it works to brainstorm activities together. We live around some really wonderful community. We walk a lot, love bike riding, and going into the mountains. We have an extra bike that you could use to get around Milan with. We love going to interactive events in Milan for the kids.
  
  I am offering a single bed on the warm, sunny mezzanine, of our beautiful house. We have lots of plants and a terrace with more plants. The space has lots of light. We are an early rising family, so unless the girls are away, there isn’t much sleeping in, in our house.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Babysitting and creative play

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  I am Canadian/English, so we speak, read and live in a house that is mostly Anglo-Saxon in culture. We can certainly offer the right person a chance to improved their english! We also offer the beautiful Italian culture around us, with the language very present in our lives. The food here is really some of the best I have eaten in the world (maybe second to Japan?;) The climate, countryside, mountains and style of life is also very Italian. We love it. We have friends all over the world, and lots of artists who are around us. I am a circus skills, dance and pilates teacher, so there is lots of artistic interaction.

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  Au Pair Help

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  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

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  Help

  I am looking for help to educate the children in how to live well, how to eat well, how to play well, and how to understand their big emotions in this very very fast world. I am always reading and learning how to help them grow up in a joyful and high vibration environment. In exchange I offer room and board, on our beautiful mezzanine, for 4/5 hours a day. You need to be with the girls Monday from 18-22 (dinner, play and bed), Tuesday 18-20:30 (dinner, play and hand them to their father) and Wednesday 18-20:45 (dinner and play). Everyone and then I get the offer to go out and dance and or the kids school goes on strike. I also need help around the house, normal cleaning up after yourself, added taking the rubbish out, cleaning the bathroom and organising the kids clothes.
  
  I am a flexible person, and our situation right now is very unstable. I NEED SOMEONE WHO IS ABLE TO REALLY GO WITH THE FLOW OF EACH DAY, with two little ones, that is just how it is.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Italian: Fluent
  German: Intermediate
  French: Intermediate

  This host offers a language exchange
  I love using my latent languages. I have been fluent in French, which I have lost to Italian.
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  Accommodation

  We have a 95m squared house, in a little community type area surrounded by green spaces on the north tip of Milan. We can offer a bed on the mezzanine, that has privacy at night, as the doors close, and the house separates into two parts. It is filled with light and lots of plants. We would share the kitchen, one bathroom, and living room. The girls and I have a bedroom in the other part of the house. Food will be all shared. We make ethical, organic, and local food choices. We tend to eat everything. We go to the slow food market once a week and spend a small fortune on food, but I consider it an investment in the health of us and our community.

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  What else ...

  Time off can be spent going into town, going for bike rides on the canals, going to visit casinas, going to the mountains, going to exhibitions or demonstrations. Finding amazing restaurants or design fairs that milan is famous for. Fantastic museums and parks in the city. Lake Como and Lecco are short cheap train rides from our house. The bike is a wonderful way to understand and see Milan.

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Can host digital nomads

  We have a solid wi-fi connection.

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  Space for parking camper vans

  This host can provide space for campervans.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  One

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