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I am now looking for Native or Fluent English speakers ASAP who love teaching and sharing.
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I am Gita. I teach English for kids and teenegars.
I would love to invite native English speakers and those who are fluent in English to help me.
What you will do here:
1. You just need to have an easy and relax conversation with the students.
2. You can conduct any fun games in order to improve English among the students, can share with us if you have any ideas.
3. The help needed is easy and fun and the working time is flexible which only take about 9 hours in a week.
What I will offer :
A stay at our home with meals covered and a shared room.
We can exchange languages and cultures. I speak English, Bahasa Indonesia and Minang.
I also know the basics of German and Chinese, and I keen to improve more.
Beside, I know Korean as well. I can read Hangul.
If you can speak any of the languages, please teach me ^_^ I will be so sooo happy.
Payakumbuh has a lot of tourist attractions and beautiful nature to explore. This will be a great opportunity for you to explore this area while contributing to the local communities. I am more than happy to guide you to each of the attraction places.
Apart from that, Payakumbuh also known for their friendly people (You may be surprise of how the local people welcoming tourists..... the people here are nice and really respect the guests especially who come from abroad. You will feel like a superstar). I am pleased if you are interested to be part of this wonderful journey.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Art Projects
Language practice
Teaching
DIY and building projects
Babysitting and creative play
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You can learn Minang and Indonesian language, beautiful Minang culture, of how to make Minangnese cuisines and many more.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
If you have any English books that you are not using anymore, we would really appreciate if you could bring these to our community centre in Payakumbuh when you come for volunteering.
If you are married you can stay in one room, if not, it is not allowed because of Muslim Culture. However we will acommodate other room for the guests.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Indonesian: Fluent
German: Beginner
Korean: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
We can exchange other languages such as English, Bahasa Indonesia, Mandarin, German, and Korean.
Accommodation
You can stay with a nice family in Payakumbuh and you will get all meals covered. They can also take you to different places and tourist attractions in Payakumbuh.
What else ...
If you are good at content or marketing, it would an advantage since I am currently promoting my community centres to wide range of people on social media.
Since I taught at Information Technology (IT) school for teenagers (15-19). I am looking for the one who is a programmer or a graphic designer to share your experiences to students.
Besides, you can learn or explore about Payakumbuh on your own during free time and see more sight of Indonesia than you thought you would be able to. Its easy to get transport to commute around Payakumbuh. You can also taste variety of traditional Minangnese foods, such as RENDANG & GALAMAI.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We are digital nomad friendly but may be vary depending on the current connection.
Space for parking camper vans
There’s a space for the van
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Hours expected
Maximum 25 hours in a week
Feedback (8)
Words can’t describe how blessed and thankful I am for you.
Jean is an amazing person. She helped a lot here and raised a lot of funding for the poor and orphan students.
She is friendly, hardworking, and honest person.
Thanks a lot Jean for your support. I am so happy to host her and I would love to host her again… read more
Gita is a young, modern, and very energetic person. She deeply cares about her students and is passionate about making learning an exciting experience for her class. Besides assisting in class, I helped… read more
Karo was always smiling and helpful from the first day! She helped me in making some videos for social media and helped me to teach my students. It was an amazing experience, we went to different places in Payakumbuh like a traditional house of Minang (it’s called Rumah Gadang), red chili farm and so much… read more
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Words can’t describe how blessed and thankful I am for you.
Jean is an amazing person. She helped a lot here and raised a lot of funding for the poor and orphan students.
She is friendly, hardworking, and honest person.
Thanks a lot Jean for your support. I am so happy to host her and I would love to host her again… read more
Gita is a young, modern, and very energetic person. She deeply cares about her students and is passionate about making learning an exciting experience for her class. Besides assisting in class, I helped… read more
Karo was always smiling and helpful from the first day! She helped me in making some videos for social media and helped me to teach my students. It was an amazing experience, we went to different places in Payakumbuh like a traditional house of Minang (it’s called Rumah Gadang), red chili farm and so much… read more
Anyone who hosts Kuandyk will wish to see him again.
He had curiosity about Indonesian cultures and learned some Indonesian words. He is a fast… read more
They got along great with the children and helped out everywhere I needed. They motivated the children to practice their English with them and they had great fun :)
Their stay was very positive and I highly recommend them for any WorkAway.… read more
Gita and her family were the nicest and most generouse people we ever met, we got everything we needed there, and in the free time they took us on unforgettable trips.
we teached at her school for a few hours a day and had so much fun with the lovely kids and the nice teachers there, we learned… read more
