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In 2015, we 'workawayed' our way around Europe, where we had so many awesome adventures and met so many awesome people, so now want to continue in the 'workawaying' adventure as hosts. We are very friendly and love sharing travelling stories or even just learning about other corners of the world.
During the week Stephen works for a local builder building houses and Michelle works for a dairy farming genetics company in the marketing department. Whilst in Europe we spent 6 months in Italy and absolutely loved it - Stephen is also from Italian decent - so we would love to have an Italian person (or couple) come stay to improve our Italian language skills and show us some traditional Italian recipes.
We are also very interested in health and well being - all our produce is either our own or from the local farmers market and we eat mostly organic but we love to try new and different foods too.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
General Maintenance
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Animal Care
Language practice
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Travellers will be living along side us and will be well incorporated into our kiwi life. On our adventures overseas we found being immersed in a whole different culture to our own opened our minds and helped us appreciate how wonderful the world is. We hope others have as much of a positive experience living in another culture as we did.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We would love some native Italian speakers to aid us in learning the Italian language. We have two dogs who love to play; unfortunately, on weekdays they are left at home to entertain themselves so they would love a workawayer friend or two to walk them and play with them during the day. We also need some help around our property - its not large but needs a little tidying up and general maintenance like weeding and mowing the lawns. Help with general house work will be required too, and if you like to cook - especially dishes different to our Kiwi diet - we love to taste new things.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Italian: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
You will have your own sunny room, with a double bed, in our home.
What else ...
Our house is only a 30 minute walk or a quick bus ride to Hamilton city centre, and there are walks along the Waikato River only 5 minutes away. We are 30 minutes from Hobbiton, 45 minutes from Raglan beach and there are a few good hikes in the area too. Hamilton is a very central city - Rotorua, Taupo, Coromandel and Mount Maunganui are all about a 2-3 hour drive away so there is plenty to explore on your days off.
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Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
My animals / pets
Feedback (4)
The jobs were easy (included like painting, wood chopping, some cleaning and walking the lovely dogs).
Would definitely recommend this workaway especially if you have a car (so you can explore more).
Even though we didn't have a car it was easy to come around since there are a lot… read more
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The jobs were easy (included like painting, wood chopping, some cleaning and walking the lovely dogs).
Would definitely recommend this workaway especially if you have a car (so you can explore more).
Even though we didn't have a car it was easy to come around since there are a lot… read more
Their loving dogs Sassy and Loki (hope we spelled it… read more
