Vaulting, horses, children, farm, Malmö, Sweden

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  Description

  Vaulting experience?!
  
  We are mainly interested in hosting, or having an exchange with, vaulters!
  
  We are a family of 2 working parents (father: swiss heritage works in IT and mother: swedish with 10 years in America - therapeut) , and 3 fosterchildren (girls age 9+9/somalie heritage and 13) and we live on a hobbyhorse farm with 6-9 horses, 3 we vault on or train for vaulting. Life here is mostly traditional swedish way of living, with the extra from what comes with being a fosterfamily for example caring for children with special emotional needs, but also very much about the horses/horsefarm. Our farm is located in outskirts of Malmö with good public transportation possibilities and closeness to copenhagen.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Teaching

  Animal Care

  Farmstay help

  Babysitting and creative play
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  Swedish way of livving with equal parenting and two working parents, swedish fosterparenting system, and swedish way of horse/animal-care/training and the Swedish way of how socialising/sparetime activities/hobbies often is organised in different non-profitorganisations.

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  Help

  We mainly would like a person to help out with vaulting, coaching and/or longing. We need help with stable duties and childcare at times as well.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  German: Fluent
  English: Fluent
  Swedish: Fluent

  This host offers a language exchange
  The father is swiss, germanspeaking. Mother is swedish. The parents mainly speak english with each other. The 13 year old trains german. So we mainly can offer Swedish/english and would like to learn german.
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  Accommodation

  Depending on availability either bed in spareroom/office and sharing everything with us in the family, or you will have your own kitchen, bathroom, entrance and room as part of the house.

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  What else ...

  Malmö, Lund, Copenhagen, Österlen. Southern tip of sweden and eastern part of Denmark also provides many old buildings, for example castlelike or old preserved farms and good recreational possibilities, nationalparks and for example "allemansrätten" provides a feeedom to move around in nature quite freely but we also have many kept acess roads/trails to nature for example "skåneleden" (mainly hiking, also biking and riding).

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  One

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  Hours expected

  Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days per week