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My name is John . I live at Ngadirejo It is located at the center of Central Java, about 3 hours from Yogyakarta. I live with my wife and a son .My eldest son lives in East Kalimantan ( Borneo ) he has married with Dayak Tribe, My daughter lives in Cilacap she works in Immigration Department , she has a little daughter . I am an English teacher . I taught in Vocational High school and now I retired but I teach at home for the private students . Most of them do not have enough chance to communicate in English in their school. Even they rare see people speak English in their English class. On weekends, we invite you to visit the interesting places around Temanggung and neighboring towns such as Borobudur temple at Magelang, royal palaces in Yogyakarta, Dieng plataeau at Wonosobo,It is not so far from my home when it is short cut it is beautiful hills, traditional arts, dances, exotic resorts, Tea Plantation , do mount climbing, playing music, beautiful waterfall. Near my village. New temple which is now explored by the archeologists of my regency which hasn’t finished yet. Actually it is very huge temple it is the second hindu’s temple after The temple in Dieng Plateau.
Fortunately, most of the volunteers were happy to stay with us . I am a Host of Workawayers since 2013 If you are interested in visiting us you can stay for weeks, or months. If you are a volunteer from Europe who speak English or an English native speaker, I am waiting forward to welcoming you at my home at Temanggung. It is of course, a safe town to stay. It is not tourist area so not so many foreigners ( tourist ) in my town We can have 2-3 volunteers to stay together. in Indonesian houses with friendly neighborhood and wi-fi connection. At school The main job is as a partner to make people speak better at home , at school where I have taught for 38 years now I am teaching private students at home and the students are for the public from the kindergarten to adult
Warmest Regards for all .Thanks
John and Family
Gardening
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Farmstay help
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
Charity Work
Language practice
Help with Computers/ Internet
Teaching
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They could study about Indonesian cultural especially Javanese Cultural, they can learn how we live and they can study more about Javanese dance and culture etc.
volunteer as a teacher it means teach at my home and help the students to practice their English in order to be able to speak English well. beside you can work in the farm or in the garden or in my brother's Cafe if you do not mind and if you have english books please bring us for studying you can bring English lesson. Reading books story books or whatever books you have please bring them for us. Beside that I am also collect stamps and coins from all over the world
English: Fluent
Indonesian: Fluent
We will provide a room and Javanese food such as fried rice, various Porridge Rice-corn and mushroom soup, fried tofu, tempe . Buntil ( made of ) taro leaf and banana, various fruit and vegetables sometimes bread
You can take the flight to Yogyakarta and get the shuttle bus directly to my home because the bus will pass my town, the destination of the bus is to Tegal or Pekalongan it will pass in front of my home
In your daily activity, you can use public transport to go to school (for 10 minutes). or you can go together with me by driving car or motor cycle You will be close to all people surrounding by doing sports, playing games, music and visiting nice places. Your coming really makes them happy because they can practice English with you.
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
More than two
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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