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We are an italian family, we live in Toscana, in the countryside near Livorno and Pisa. It is a nice and interesting place: many turists come all over the year to visit our region. The sea is near, as well as places of historical and artistic significance, like Firenze and Pisa.
I work as a teacher in a primary school, and my husband works as a surveyor in Livorno. Our two doughters aged 15 and 12 study english and spanish. Spending time with workawayers is a very motivating way to practice languages!
Of course some patience is required with teenagers, that sometimes can be a little unpleasant!
Anyway our doughters are usually quite nice, and interested to people. Claudia, the younger, will want to teach you italian at all costs!
We usually prefer healthy food, and if you are vegetarian, vegan or suffer allergies, we can provide for meals that can be good for you.
Gardening
General Maintenance
Farming
Help in the house
Language practice
Help with Computers / internet
We ask for spirit of cooperation in the daily management. We would like to start with short experiences (7-10 days)
italian, english, french, spanish
We have got a bedroom where you can stay. It is not going to be of your exclusive use because it is a room where we study or work on the computer during the day. The wifi connection is not illimited.
We live in an old farmhouse, where two other families live, but we are not just neightbours, we are friends and often do things together. From our house to town it is possible to use public transport, but there are many few buses during the day. Having a car is the best way to move to town, however we can manage to take you and pick you up according with our working hours.
For example we can leave you to the train station in Livorno, and from there you can get trains to Pisa (15 minutes), Lucca (40 minutes) and Florence (1 hour); also visiting Livorno can be a nice experience. The seafront of Livorno is amazing, or you can have a walk in the central market and in the town center.
In our free time we will be pleased to go along with you.
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
One
My husband and I would like to have cultural exchanges with people from other countries, also to give the opportunity to our two doughters, aged 14 and 11, to practice languages and have friends abroad. I'm a school teacher, I can help you if you are interested in learning italian. We like painting and my husband likes engraving.
We started the Workaway experience because we really enjoy meeting people from different countries and situations, and we think that this is a very effective way to learn!
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
