Come join our family and help with house renovating project in Kouvola, Finland

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  Description

  Hello! We are a family, Me, my husband and our two little kids. We are living in finnish country side, very near town Kouvola, about only one and half hours fron Helsinki by train.
  
  We have big old wooden house what we are renovating by traditional techniques and materials. We have big (wild) garden with lots of fruit and berry trees. We have Finnish landrace chickens also.
  
  We are looking for house help, babysitter, or helper to our garden and house projects.
  
  We are very open minded family. We have been travelling and also volunteering when we were younger.
  
  Me and my husband both are working at home. I am shoe maker and I have an own barefoot shoe brand called Hukkasiini. My husband has own music studio, Juuri Studio, and he is working as a sound engineer. Our kids are 3 and 5 years old.
  
  We can offer you Finnish lovely home, own room, own peace. We offer you an experience of Finnish style of living, enough freetime to see the country and interesting work with gardening, baby sitting and helping with our renovating project.
  
  Our house is unfinished, not very fancy yet. Our home is little boheme and living with us not so strict. We enjoy culture experiences, exploring nature, having fun freetime with our friends.
  
  We have also old old hut in forest (look the picture) if you are interested to try traditional old style living with no electricity and running water, that is also really nice place for nature adventures.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Art Projects

  Language practice

  Help with Eco Projects

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Animal Care

  Babysitting and creative play

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance

  Help with Computers/ Internet
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  Finnish way of living, beautifull nature, traditional building and hand craft skills.

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  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

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  Help

  You don't need special skills, we will teach you all, experience with children is useful but not nessessary.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  Finnish: Fluent
  English: Intermediate
  Swedish: Beginner

  This host offers a language exchange
  I would love to learn more Swedish! Our kid's are in Swedish lekskolan!
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  Accommodation

  Own room, you can choose eating together or making own food.

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  What else ...

  We have good bus and train connection to every direction in Finland, Mikkeli, Lappeenranta, Kotka and Lahti are near, also Helsinki is easy to go. Repovesi national park is amazing beautiful and just few kilometers from our place. During weekends we can travel to our cottage, it is in neighbour town Iitti, in middle of the forest!

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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

  This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.

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  Space for parking camper vans

  We have big garden and parking area.

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  Can possibly accept pets

  Pet's who are okay with kids and chickens are welcome! Our chickens lives free in our big garden during summer

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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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