Join our small Polish-Slovak family and help with gardening and daily life in Latky, Slovak Republic

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  Description

  Hey!
  We are Martyna, Richard and our doughter Rodana.
  We making craft works, actually mostly we do handmade sewn notebooks, but we have experience with making natural jawelery, paintings and differend type of manual art works.
  We love music, singing and playing, jaming around the fire.
  We are caring of two beautiful wood houses in the nature. Is the place around 960 meter above sea level. From spring to autumn pretty big sheep herd walking aroud the fields. Here is mounthains area and many nice walking ways.
  This area is peaceful, we almost don't have neighbors, just some people have holiday cottages around.
  You can hear the birds singing loudly and at night many of the stars (also milky way).

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Art Projects

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Farmstay help

  Babysitting and creative play

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  You can enjoy the nature here, we can also can go to hiking or recommend nice spots around. Here is beautiful area, many springs with clear water and air.
  We can exchange skills with Slavic languages.
  We can also learn you how to sew your own notebooks :)

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  Help

  We are flexible about help and open for your propose, you can write us in which type of activities you feel good and we can find the solution.
  
  We would like to find a person for helping with a child , for playing, going for walk with her etc. She is very active babe, we also don't have a tv and prefer spend aktivities in the nature :)
  we can collaborate with the basic house tasks, gardening..
  
  LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN BUILD AND WORK WITH WOOD
  In this seson we start with building our gypsy wagon like a tiny house, so all of experience with this topic or natural materials is very welcome, for example working with wood, isolation. With this topic we will need more help, also If you don’t have experiences with building stuff.
  
  Also you can help us with our craft, we sew notebooks. We use for that leather or kork, recycled paper, sometimes with burned out ornaments on the cover. It's prette long process, sometimes few days, but not all the time, we also use the glue for that which need to be dry. You don't need to have any special skills for that just willingness to creative work.

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  Languages spoken

  Czech: Fluent
  Polish: Fluent
  Slovak: Fluent
  English: Intermediate

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  Accommodation

  We offering traditional wood house where is one room and small kichen. There are two beds and also two mattresses.
  Here where we live are two houses close to each other, in one of them we living, second we have for guests. Bathroom and wc to use is in our home or one compostable wc is outside.
  We have our water from our spring, we taking water from the well. Water to use in the bathroom we have from filtered rain water.
  We also can accomodate you in a tent.
  Here is internet connection, we have a wifi.
  We eat a simple vegan or vegetarian food. Sometimes we use eggs or chees from the local farm.
  We like to use herbs and sezon foods.

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  What else ...

  Slovakia is a beautiful small coutry, here is many mouthains, view for them you have almost everywhere here.

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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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  Space for parking camper vans

  Is possible to parking here with your van/caravan

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  Can possibly accept pets

  We just have 3 cats, but if your pet like a cats, then is fine ;)

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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  Hours expected

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

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