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Hi there,
I am a stay at home mum that just moved into this adorable house build by pulling a horse and cart in the 1920's. As a homeschooling mum with 3 children under 6 and a partner who is travelling worldwide most of the year, I am keen to spend time settling in while discovering our surroundings.
While Mike is working as a stuntman and setting up ACE, a charity that stands for Aquatic Care and Education I am taking on the task to move in and make the house suitable for our family. We fell in love with this gorgeous natural grounds and the spirit of a house where nothing looks straight. The house is fully build with Kauri wood and is located right next to the Herekino forest. It is build on the most beautiful Clay ground and part of our homeschooling project is to learn how to turn the ground into useable clay for sculpting. We are using the natural resources around the property to build vegetable gardens and sustainable living. Our goal is to live off grid in the next 3 years and turn this beautiful place in a sanctuary for humans and animals a like. Finding harmony and using your help to extend our children classroom beyond the 4 wall of a traditional classroom is our key to successfully achieve this goal. We welcome you to join into to this quest.
Gardening
Babysitting / child care
Cooking / shopping
Help with Eco project
Help in the house
Language practice
Teaching
Here you would benefit from spending time in the Far North of New Zealand. This Magnificent place is next door to the Kaitaia walking track and only 15 min away from 90 mile beach or shipwreck bay. Both beaches are amazing places to soak up some of New Zealands beautiful nature. Also being from Belgium myself I can introduce Dutch, French or support you with the English Language if you seek to introduce or improve those skills for yourself. I am also an art teacher by trade and even though I'm a little rusty I would be happy to start picking up teaching some of those skills again as well. I like the practise of living healthily, mindfully and in harmony. So if you feel the need to come back to basics this is a good place to be. And lastly I am working on developing my super brain and part of doing this is by teaching memory techniques to others so if training your retaining skills or memorising names etc is something you are interested in, this is totally the place to be right now!
We choose to study from home so a helping hand with projects and jobs in and around the property as well as teaching in general is a welcome gift. Any of your skills in art, music,, sustainable living, languages as well as introducing your culture to our family are also part of what we would like to see.
Frech, Dutch, English and keen to learn MAORI
We live in an old villa that has been pulled by horse and cart around 1920. We have a spare room in the house for 1 person to start with. You will require a car as we live rurally, yet very close to town, beaches and walking tracks.
During your time off there are walking tracks, surfing beaches close by, there is a cinema, a museum and library within 5 minutes and three different swimming pools in town. Only 1 hour from here there are also surfing dunes. We have yet to discover our surroundings ourselves, so we welcome you along this journey of course.
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
More than two
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
