Gardening, building and renovation projects in our shared-house-community in Hannover, Germany

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  Description

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  We have short-term spots for certain building/renovating/gardening projects now, and the stay would be in our guest room.
  
  There are different indoor/outdoor projects to chose from.
  
  The workawayer should have experience living with cats and understand safety issues around pet care or be willing to adjust to the requirements quickly.
  
  At the moment we would prefer a workawayer to stay for 1-3 weeks with specific skills to work on a certain project.
  
  Project choices are (depending on time of year/weather/skills):
  - build terrace roof
  - lay cork click-flooring
  - help renovate/build kitchen
  - plaster walls
  - paint walls
  - tile bathroom wall
  - set up chicken coup
  - repair fence
  - cut trees
  - dig out bamboo
  - make/maintain vegetable patches
  - repair bikes
  
  Longer term stays / stays for more than 1 person on request.
  
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  We are a small shared-house-community with a vegetable garden and 2 cats. At the moment we live here with 3 housemates. So the workawayer would be the 4th person. 😊
  
  We also welcome help with housework and preparing meals or the transport of furniture, as one of us is temporarily handicapped.
  
  We're into crochet and crafts and I was quite excited to see that many of you travelers enjoy this, too.
  We enjoy yoga in the garden and paddle boarding on the nearby canal and swimming in local lakes - in the winter we're more indoors or go to the local pool or Saunas.
  
  Our house (built in 1933) is in a suburb of Hannover about 15 mins from the main train station. We share bathrooms, common rooms and kitchen.
  You can borrow a bike. We speak German and English.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Language practice

  Elderly Companionship

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Animal Care

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance
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  UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  We've had flatmates and workawayers from Australia, Turkey, China, Germany, Iran, Nepal, Greece and France before but we're still quite new to workaway. I've had some experience meeting people through the organisation "Servas". I've lived in England, Australia and Thailand. We're open to share our culture with others and learn from yours.
  
  You can learn a bit about growing your own food, in "Mischkultur", or, if you are an expert yourself - educate us further. 😊
  We are planning to start raising chickens this year, so we would be happy to share this experience.
  
  Our little road is quite friendly so you will likely get to know the neighbours. Our place is near the "Mittellandkanal" and as soon as the waether gets warmer again there's the opportunity to go stand up paddle boarding.
  
  We care for elderly people and there are some community events in the calendar volunteers would be welcome to attend, if interested - like for instance the European Neighbourhood Day in May.

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  Help

  These tasks would be possible/helpful: help with housework, cleaning, cooking, grocery shopping, taking things to the recycling place, plaster walls, take off wallpaper, painting, lay down click-floors, hang shelves, carry furniture, look after cats, sort seeds, make plan for veggie beds, sow pepper/chillies/tomatoes on the window sill, finish building a roof for the patio, fell a tree, weeding, fence repair.
  
  There is also the possibility for conversational English meetings with senior citizens.
  
  Diese Tätigkeiten sind möglich bzw hilfreich: Hilfe im Haushalt, Saubermachen, Kochen, Einkaufen, Sachen zum Recyclinghof bringen, Wände spachteln, Streichen, Klickparkett verlegen, Regale anbringen, Tapete abreißen, Möbel tragen, Katzen versorgen, Samen sortieren, Gemüsebeetplan fürs Frühjahr machen, Paprika, Chili und Tomaten auf der Fensterbank aussäen, Terassenüberdachung zuende bauen, Bäum fällen, Unkraut jäten, Zaun reparieren.
  
  Es besteht außerdem die Möglichkeit, Englisch-Koversations-Treffen mit älteren Senior*innen im Stadtteil durchzuführen.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  German: Fluent
  English: Fluent
  French: Beginner

  This host offers a language exchange
  I would be happy for a language exchange. I have a few words in those languages and would be happy to brush up or learn new ones 😉: - Spanish - Portugese - Russian - Thai - Arabic - Italian
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  Accommodation

  The room is in our shared house. It's got a comfortable Sofa bed and some shelves and seating.
  The volunteers are welcome to share use of living room, cellar and garden.

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  What else ...

  There are 3 trams lines about 8 mins walk away, and a bus stop a minute from our door.
  During winter you can go for walks along the canal or in the large city forest EILENRIEDE, during summer there are several lakes and many bike tracks to explore.
  
  There is also a community indoor pool with sauna in walking distance.

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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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  Can host digital nomads

  We have a common living room, that could be used as an office at some part of the day. Our internet is stable.

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  Can possibly accept pets

  Grundsätzlich wären Hunde und Katzen willkommen, es hängt allerdings davon ab, ob unsere beiden Stammkatzen mit ihnen klarkommen.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  One

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  Hours expected

  Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week / Maximal 4-5 Stunden am Tag, 5 Tage die Woche

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