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We are a Latvian family with two adults and 3 young children. Need a helping hand at our home and support with taking care of children. We are both musicians and music teachers (classical guitar, singing.) hobbies:table tennis, movies, bicycles.
We have a lot of experience with hosting people from other countries, because we also have our own organization-society for young musicians and we have been organizing a lot of international projects such as youth exchanges and European Voluntary service within our organization. But this is the first time we have decided to host someone privatly to make a difference in our family life.
Our children are 3 and 5 year old girls and almost 8 years old boy. We are friendly, simple and open-minded.
We own a privat music school, and our futures biggest dream is to renovate an old building that we own, to move our school to our own premises (instead of renting.) So we are seeking a balance between raising kids, teaching music, building school..
We have had several great workaway hosting experiences; everyone has added something valuable to our family.Types of help and learning opportunities
GardeningBabysitting and creative playCreating/ Cooking family mealsHelp around the houseGeneral MaintenanceCultural exchange and learning opportunities
We are a latvian musician family. We can offer some musical skills. We live in a nice and friendly town with about 60000 inhabitants. In the Summer we would like to make a few small jorneys in our country and maybe visit neighbour countries, and there is a possibility to join us.
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Help
In general: help in the house with keeping it in order and clean, take care of children if they stay at home a couple of hours, help with cooking and shopping. We usually have a lot of work with different projects, and we would love to find a balance between taking care of children and the house and working.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Latvian (Lettish): Fluent
Russian: Fluent
German: Beginner
Lithuanian: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
Our son loves languages. He freely speaks English, and he likes to teach Latvian to foreign people. He is just 8, but really good at that. He has been learning Spanish and French on Duolingo, probably he would like to learn these languages with a real person.Accommodation
1 room, separate WC.
What else ...
Latvia is an interesting country and we can offer some tours with our family. The capital city Riga is just 40 min by train or by car. Many interesting and historic things around to see. Green country, great for nature lovers.
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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
This host can provide space for campervans.
Can possibly accept pets
We might accept a person with a cat. As the children are still young, a dog needs to be discussed.
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (8)
Now that you are back in England, we are back to "pelmeņi" and frozen food :D Sadly.
Emily is a young musician,… read more
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Now that you are back in England, we are back to "pelmeņi" and frozen food :D Sadly.
Emily is a young musician,… read more
It was a pleasure to have her around, and we also got the chance to eat some of her typical family foods and… read more
I am very thankful, that you let me be your workawayer just for one week. It was my first workaway experience and it was really as good as I expected it to be. You both are so open- minded persons and you are unbelievable patient and lovely with your kids. Zane, you have a very sensitive feeling of how to include me in your… read more
afterall it seems strange to leave a feedback on workaway., as it was so much more. But it started here :)
So here it goes:
Anna spent here almost 4 months which is the longest anyone has spent with our family. During the time of course she was an excellent help with the house (cooking, cleaning, gardening, making fire for the heating… read more
Thank you for choosing our family and trusting us :)
Vita was able to adjust to our house and family incredibly fast,so it is pretty unbelievable what can be done in a week! I was able to do my plans for the week only because VITA was there to help. I felt really blessed to have a little break from unending house work. I even laugh a… read more
This was a quite intensive week with a lot things going on! ;) Helping with various tasks, cooking, going to a concert with family, travelling with Zane and also alone. Absolutely emotionally full and rich with new experienses time! Thank you for that to all of… read more
Thanks to you our son is encouraged to speak English, and I hope Miķelis will go on with improving his new skills!
Thanks to you our daughter was more ready to start her kindergarden - the first week… read more
About the town… read more
It was our first workaway experience and I'm happy that it was positive and everything worked out so well.