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We look for voluteers during winter and spring. Travelers who have experience with unschooling or homeschooling are most welcome :-)! We would love to learn portugese!
We are a German-Czech family of 6 (kids are aged 8-16 - we respect their privacy and do not post their photos in our profile). We spent a lot of time traveling between Germany and Czech Republic so we are not always available but very happy to host you if we happen to be in Erlangen. Please just contact us and we will find a solution. Please be aware - we accept only female guests or families - thank you for your understanding.
We like to host creative, open, patient and communicative people. If you have experience with unschooling or homeschooling we are eager to learn more about this visionary and ingenious way of education which unfortunately is still being criminalised in Germany.
We have more hobbies than time to experience them - especially music (renaissance and barock in particular but not only) and art, many kinds of crafting and cooking/baking. We all like to spent a lot of time in the nature. Our children love playmobil, legos and board games so hopefully you do too.
What would be expected of you: to help our children (and us) to learn and practice languages:
We would love to host a speaker of (brasilian) portugese or russian! We are eager to learn this languages (we are complete beginners).
Otherwise it means for you to talk with us in english, french, italian, russian, (brasilian) portugese (some of us are fluent in some of these languages, some of these languages we just want to learn) + help in the houselhold + decluttering of attics, washing windows and all this kind of tasks one always puts on the "to do" list for tomorrow and than it never happens, you see :-) ... creativity and spirit of initiative is most welcome!
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We can share our skills, culture, kitchen, habits, music and help you learning and practicing languages (german, english, french, czech).
We offer to you to be a part of our family :-).
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
- teaching English, French, Italian, Russian, Portugese
- share the work in the household
- creativity and spirit of initiative is most welcome
- we accept only a female guests or families - thank you for your understanding.
Languages
Languages spoken
Czech: Fluent
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Italian: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
What would be expected of you: to help our children (and us) to learn and practice languages and help in the household, no heavy hard work is expected.
Accommodation
You will have a room of your own for sleeping. It is not a guest room - we (children) use it during the day, but you will have your complete privacy during evening and night hours and if you just need it to rest.
We offer you to share meals with us - we cook warm meals. Tell us in advance if we need to take care of nutrition allergies (we have experience with gluten or laktose free). We accept vegetarian guests but we rarely cook vegan.
We can host families with up to 3-4 children of the similar age as our ones, not very much younger. Hosting very young children may be difficult as there are for example small toys as legos everywhere around the house.
If you are a family, we can host you only for few days, maximum a week, as our house is not very big and only part of it is renovated. We would like you to share some costs of food if you come as a (large) family. Thank you for your understanding.
We do not host pets. Thank you for your understanding.
Our house is old and still under construction. It is sometimes dusty due to the construction works and not suitable for people with dust allergy.
We would like to have our volunteers here like a part of our family, spending time together, getting know each other and each others culture. Ofcourse we respect your privacy and need to rest and reflect.
If you plan to spent evenings out for wild parties, please notice that we are not the right host for you. Smoking is not allowed inside of the house (outside is ok). We won't host a drunken person!
What else ...
Bus stop at short walking distance is served most of the day and night, buses every 15-20 min (less in the night), natives (we also) use mostly bicycle. We dont have a car). (The connection to the airport in Nürnberg is very good - about 60-75 minutes).
We live close to the nature. There is a public swimming-pool within short distance from our house.
Erlangen is a small nice university town of 100 000 inhabitants with nice cafés, cinemas, university hospital, headquarters of Siemens and Adidas, Puma, Schoeffler (Herzogenaurach).
Erlangen is on half way between Nürenberg, Bamberg (25 min with train - cca 5 x in one hour) - and close to a region suited for hiking - Fränkische Schweiz - franconian Switzerland.
Nice towns for one day trip - Schwabach, Bad Windsheim, Regensburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Munich (München) or Bayreuth. Prague or Dresden is well manageable as a 3 day trip.
Please respect that we don't want to have pictures and names of our children (and us) posted on internet platforms (as Facebook, Youtube or any other kind of social networks). Out of this reason we also do not post their pictures in our profile.
Once we and you confirmed your stay we rely on you. If you are going to change your plans, thank you for letting us know as soon as possible.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have a normal working wifi, not very fast, large uploads can be difficult, otherwise ok.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
About 4-5 hours. Two days off per week.
Feedback (14)
a very kind and well organised young woman. Just one example - if you
ask her to make lunch or dinner (do it, she can cook! - brasilian,
international and japanese) you can be sure that it ll be on time on
the table, because she ll start on time! No panic, just a… read more
horizons and mind for new experiences and is ready to give a lot back
for this.
She came to learn german and german culture and hopefully we could
help her in this.
She was great help in the household and this allowed us to spent nice
moments together with kids in the forest or in… read more
I came to your house without any prefigured ideas or expectations, and what I found was something unique and priceless...
M and H's family is simply genuine and everything comes spontaneously.
I spent most of the time with M helping with household, but I also… read more
here with us. It is always nice to meet such a self-reliant and
responsable person. She manages to face with lightness the chaos made
by a family of six as if it would be nothing.
She stays so decisively positive until everyone around her gets on her wave.
A huge thanks goes… read more
share her knowledge.
The kids are really fun and easy. Whenever you are alone… read more
Feedback
a very kind and well organised young woman. Just one example - if you
ask her to make lunch or dinner (do it, she can cook! - brasilian,
international and japanese) you can be sure that it ll be on time on
the table, because she ll start on time! No panic, just a… read more
horizons and mind for new experiences and is ready to give a lot back
for this.
She came to learn german and german culture and hopefully we could
help her in this.
She was great help in the household and this allowed us to spent nice
moments together with kids in the forest or in… read more
I came to your house without any prefigured ideas or expectations, and what I found was something unique and priceless...
M and H's family is simply genuine and everything comes spontaneously.
I spent most of the time with M helping with household, but I also… read more
here with us. It is always nice to meet such a self-reliant and
responsable person. She manages to face with lightness the chaos made
by a family of six as if it would be nothing.
She stays so decisively positive until everyone around her gets on her wave.
A huge thanks goes… read more
share her knowledge.
The kids are really fun and easy. Whenever you are alone… read more
a new path and offered a helping hand in exchange.
We are very grateful we had her here. She is a very mature and well
organized woman. Just a short moment of checking the general situation
- she makes her plan and she steps in to master perfectly the
situation.
She is… read more
M and her husband H are really lovely hosts. M is creative and high talented, unbelievable good how she is sewing the clothes for her kids or little things for the house - she is a real powerful woman.
H is so funny and childlike with the childrens - wonderful to watch.
My whole respect to this parents… read more
your house keeps order there and bring luck? If not, read it and wish
strong Michaela comes to live for a while in your house. Because she
must be such a fairy - it was literally never so clean and tidy in our
house (at least since we have more than 2 kids ;-)) as when she… read more
and the kids spoke Czech as me. It was as home but in a different
town. M is very nice, cares for her Kids, household and takes
part at the renovating of the house. She likes good movies, so if you
have some tips for her, she ll be happy. They are both great chefs, i
liked the… read more
moments - jokes, making faces, dancing, weird dreams and stories ...
We miss this very much, lucky one who can have her around :-)!
She is energetic and knows what she wants. Kids followed her even if
she didnt speak German. Our little one was running behind all the time
… read more
even if I'm very young I've met lots!)
She is calm, patient, but at the same time an explosion of vitality.
With her family, you can daily take a life's shower. I was stupefied
by their harmony with nature. To be honest, at the beginning I had my
doubts about this really… read more
active, relaxed, optimistic young woman you ll love from the first
sight on as we all did. She has a magic capacity to transform people
around her into her friends. I want to thank her for her immense help
in organizing piles of boxes with kids clothes and shoes and also… read more
She loves her homeland and if you talk with her it is clear that you definitely miss a lot in your life if you dont visit Portugal once.
Very… read more
stay more than a week on one place. Than she sat with her laptop on
the sofa and stayed there for a week, two, three, four and almost five
to leave finally on her way back to Helsinky :-) ... Beside one trip
she stick to our house and our family - we take it as a big… read more
Rule number 1: Never,… read more
time with workaway and it has been really an unforgettable experience.
M is a kind and cheerful woman, who likes to show her way of
living and her lifestyle, involving you in her daily life. Starting
with breakfast together, until chatting after dinner, you will be part
of her… read more
Most of the help I gave was light… read more
She stayed almost 2 weeks with us and helped me out in the last weeks of my pregnancy. Thank to her i was not completely exhausted as would be the case otherwise, just the opposite, i could relax and rest now and than as she took quite… read more
thing that comes to my mind is: I MISS THEM ALL VERY MUCH… and I am
looking forward to visiting them soon!
At first, I was supposed to stay for one month before the beginning
of my internship. But this one month was eventually
multiplied by five, as it was so outstanding… read more
We agreed first she would stay a month before she starts her internship in Erlangen so that she can discover the place with the help of locals. Finally we went so well on together that we both agreed she would stay as long as she… read more
Don't hesitate to meet this lovely… read more
He helped not only with renovating and also making apple-puree but he was the first Finn we met and thanks to him… read more
Kristina helped H and me with making new isolation in the garret and preparing walls… read more
Thank to her help we could do a lot of work and with her tranquil way and smile she saved us a lot of nerves. She also had a nice contact to children. We will miss her.
