Join our summer team and enjoy outdoor activities in Värmland, Sweden

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Beschreibung
Hello, We are Michel and Brenda, and we live near the town Arvika in Värmland, Sweden. Originally we come from the Netherlands. In 2006 we moved together with our two kids to Sweden.

We are easy-going people and love to meet other cultures. We are traveling a lot ourselves and in our free time we like to explore the neighbouring nature reserves by bike or canoe. We also like to camp and spend a few days in the wild, cooking meals on an open fire.
Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten
Sprachpraxis
Gartenarbeiten
Heimwerker- und Bauarbeiten
Zubereiten / Kochen von Mahlzeiten für die Familie
Hausarbeiten
Handwerkliche Arbeiten
Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten
We're both well travelled, curious, creative, sociable and multilingual persons and open to all kinds of people. We have been a WorkAway host for several years now and each year we host 4 till 5 workawayers from different countries/cultures. Although the main language will be English this will be a good opportunity to learn some basics language and cultural skills from one another in Swedish, Dutch, French or Spanish.
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Dieser Host bietet Unterkunft und Bezahlung.
Der Gastgeber gibt an, dass er den gesetzlichen Stundenlohn seines Landes für jede gearbeitete Stunde zahlt und zudem die Unterkunft zur Verfügung stellt. Er sucht Mithilfe an seinem Unternehmen bzw. bei seiner Geschäftstätigkeit. Nutze bitte die Messaging-Funktion der Website, um mehr Informationen und Details zum gezahlten Lohn zu erhalten. Du solltest alle Absprachen im Vorfeld direkt mit deinem Gastgeber treffen.
Arbeit
We pay a wage for your hours and provide accommodation. We like you to help us with activities like; cleaning, mowing the lawn, grocery shopping and maintenance of the property like painting and gardening. You will help preparing meals for the other workawayers and our family.

Our preference is for helpers who are between 18 and 26 in age and can stay for a longer period of time, 1 to 3 months.
Gesprochene Sprachen
Englisch: Fließend
Niederländisch: Fließend
Swedish: Fließend
Unterkunft
We live in a former teachers building, which consist of 3 apartments where you will share bedrooms and bathrooms together with other helpers.
Was noch ...
You can visit and discover the charming streets in the picturesque town Arvika, with a small town with a city pulse. It's reachable by bike or by bus. Or why not explore the nearby nature by foot, we have very nice hiking trails directly from our guesthouse or by canoe and their are plenty more fun activities on spot !
Etwas mehr Information
- Internet Zugang
- Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang
- Wir besitzen Tiere
- Wir sind Raucher
- Familien möglich
Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal
mehr als zwei
Arbeitszeiten
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week

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01.02.2022

Vom Workawayer (Camille & Emelyne) für Host

We had a very mixed feeling with our time at the place. I won't get personal here, since we had personally no serious issues with our hosts. But there are things that were not know before coming here, and I feel it's important for helpers to know them. Why? Because if you come here and know what to expect, you could have a wonderful time. But if… read more you come here thinking that you will have 25 hours work a week and have a nice chill time, you won't like it here.

The good:
- Though the hosts are not very good at communicating, there are not bad people and want to have a good time. There are delightful when not under stress.
- You have plenty of activities: biking, swimming in the lakes, canoeing, orienteering. If you ask the hosts, they will try to set up an activity for you, and that is very nice.
- The other volunteers are often young, dynamic and interesting since they try to recruit volunteers doing internships abroad for their summer holidays. The team spirit here was amazing (though alas, mostly without the hosts since there was quite a lot of tension after a couple of weeks).
- You have access to a lot of bikes to see the area.
- The facilities were very good: we had our own private room (though not everyone had theirs since we were 11 volunteers at some point to be able to manage the workload), we had good WiFi, hot water, access to the hostel's kitchen to prepare a meal/breakfast.
- The meals were prepared everyday by some different helpers and the host, Brenda, would help make very nice meals, desserts. This was really nice as well.

The not-so-good:
- The hosts told us that we would work 7 days a week but only 25h, and have the afternoon free. That was really important to us since we were doing a full year abroad and had to keep energy for all of our volunteering during the year. The truth was that we would indeed be working 7 days but the time worked was closer to 35-45h per week. In the beginning, they would even make us paint the windows if they felt we hadn't worked enough during the day. They also told the same thing to all the volunteers.
- The work is very stressful, especially in the evenings. You are supposed to know how to prepare all food that is served in the hostel, clean it, behave like a professional and never make mistakes. If the hosts knew how to manage stress and could realise that their "staff" is only volunteers without professional catering experience, it would be fine. But that is not the case, see my next point.
- The hosts don't know how to manage stress/volunteers. The hosts work a lot during the summer. It's quite normal since they run their hostel without hire a single employee. Everyone here is a volunteer. But when the work gets tense and stressful, they tend to be affected as well, and tell the volunteers that they don't work with enough efficiency, that mistakes should never happen, etc. Not always very nice. They also called the volunteers back to clean if they felt the work was not perfect (and we are talking about very small details here), instead of fixing it themselves (this is their hotel in the end, they are the ones making money with it). This was not the case at the beginning, it showed only later because we were not a crew of professionals (though honestly, I've worked 10 years in catering and the volunteers were very efficient, especially for unpaid crew).
- The hosts do not welcome feedback. Though they tried to have meetings at the end of the month because they realised that there was a lot of tension between them and the volunteers, they failed to take most feedback into account. I have to say though that they got more volunteers to try to alleviate the work load, so they did listen to some of it. But for the organisational part, you feel like an employee, not a volunteer bringing something to the organisation.
- If you don't have a car you will only have access to bikes. This means you can't go very far, especially since you will need to be back everyday at 17:30.

To summarise: This will be a good place for you if you are looking for an intense experience, loads of fun, work and activities. This will not be a good place for you if you expect to work 25h/week like advertised, or if you don't like to be treated like an employee.

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12.05.2018

Vom Host für Workawayer (Marie & rémi)

It was great to meet Marie and Remi. We were their first workaway host and they did a great job. Although their English is not really good we understood each other quit well and had nice chats during our evening dinners together. They are hard working and open-minded persons with a lovely dog named Lilo! We which you all the best with all the new… read more

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05.09.2017

Vom Host für Workawayer (Elmar)

Elmar helped our team for one month. He fitted well in our team and liked to learn a lot. He is a really active guy and a good worker. He even cooked some Spanish dishes which tasted really good. Thanks Elmar for all your help, it was really nice meeting you and we wish you all the best with your new workaway projects.

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27.08.2017

Vom Workawayer (Elmar) für Host

I spent 4 weeks with this family and several helpers. We had helper and free time every day and we enjoyed it doing a lot of activities especially on sunny days: canoeing, paddle boating, riding a bike, swimming in one of the multiples lakes, going bowling in Arvika and doing archery. Moreover, they have a little gym, a room for watching films,… read more

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