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We are a family of five who live on a farm with horses. We have three daughters 14, 10 and 8 years old. Me (Kolla) and my husband (Atli) both have our "day-jobs" but there is also always some work to be done at home on the farm.
We live in a in a valley in the north of Iceland. Nearest towns are Blönduós (about 15 km away) and Skagaströnd (about 21 km away).
The valley is called Laxárdalur and is a beautiful place with rather much snow in the wintertime and beautiful northern lights but lovely quiet summers.
We have not had a workawayer staying with us for a several years now but we have had good experience with inviting volunteers to our home before and are thinking about doing it again if the right person comes along.
The idea of a win-win situation this time would be with an open and friendly girl who has experience with horses that could help me to work with my young and untrained horses for a few weeks (along with some basic housework). The person would also have to like kids and teenagers :)
For clarification:
We don´t run a business at our farm or sell any service to customers. We are just a family who lives on a farm and have our daily jobs off the farm. We breed horses on a small scale as a hobby and what we are offering is a chance to live with an Icelandic family in an Icelandic countryside with all the cultural exchange that comes with it :) What our guest could do for us in return would be some help around the house and assisting the house wife with her hobby since she is the only member of the family with real interest in horses and needs companionship in that field :)Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten
Betreuung von TierenMithilfe auf einem BauernhofBabysitten und KinderbetreuungZubereiten / Kochen von Mahlzeiten für die FamilieHausarbeitenUNO-Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung, die dieser Gastgeber verfolgt
Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten
Chance to stay in an Icelandic country side and get to know the Icelandic horse and the life on a farm. Chance to learn some basic Icelandic.
Projekte mit Kindern
Dieses Projekt schließt möglicherweise den Umgang mit Kindern ein. Mehr Informationen findest du in unseren Verhaltensregeln und Tipps hier.
Arbeit
We are looking for a fun, hardworking and open minded girl who would like to participate in all the tasks that needs to be done at our home and farm.
Stable help - Mucking stable boxes, feeding horses in the morning, training (if experienced rider).
Kids - sometimes babysitting our three girls (playing with them) -
House choirs - Helping with the usual house choirs as laundry - Cleaning - cooking - this is the "never ending story" for a family with 3 kids! :)
We are a busy family with a full time job and a lot of hobbies so a pair of extra hands in the family are very useful :) Kolla enjoys horses and likes to use all the time she can get for horse back riding and Atli likes to go fishing when that is possible. Atli is also very hardworking and is usually working on some projects at home when he is not at work. We try to make sure our volunteer can also do some horse back riding and other things she likes while her stay with us. We also encourage our guests to see more of Iceland while staying with our family.
Our girls all speak english and it would be very nice if they could learn a bit of another language.Gesprochene Sprachen
Englisch: Fließend
Unterkunft
We have a private bedroom for our guest.
Was noch ...
Tourist information about the area at northwest.is
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Wir besitzen Tiere
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Familien möglich
Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal
eine(n)
Arbeitszeiten
maximum 4-5 hours, 5 days a week
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coming to Iceland I had absolutely no idea what to expect, I was probably as far away from home as I could possibly be. But after meeting with this family, I felt at home immediately, most days were spent looking after the 3 kids, (which can be handful) but they are all very lovely girls and doing general… read more
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coming to Iceland I had absolutely no idea what to expect, I was probably as far away from home as I could possibly be. But after meeting with this family, I felt at home immediately, most days were spent looking after the 3 kids, (which can be handful) but they are all very lovely girls and doing general… read more
Even they're living in a small valley, there was always something to do: at their new farm, to go for a ride to the sea/mountains or to catch up with other work-awayer's.... I enjoyed to lern many things about the icelandic culture - to get to know the sheeprundup and horserundup were… read more