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We are a little family, living on the beautiful danish island Bornholm: Mira, Asta, Tuomas and Elisabeth, and our dog Jackson and cats Gordon and Happy.
We live in an old trainstation with a big garden, in biking distance from Rønne (the islands biggest city), the beach and the forest.
WE NEED HELP between the 10th of March and untill the 19th of May (we are fully booked before and after)
Tuomas is abroad for 6 months with work, so Elisabeth is alone with the kids, animals and garden.
We are looking for an energetic person to join our little family for a while, helping us with daily life and our many projects, and coming with fresh inputs and worldviews.
We need help with all the daily stuff: cooking, playing with the kids, walking the dog, having fun, gardening, haning out!
We want you to come be a part of our family. We prefer that you stay for at least a month, longer is even better!
The 21-23rd of April Elisabeth is throwing a big clothes-swap event, and really needs helping hands, both with the event and with all the daily stuff. Come and be part of a really cool event, maybe you need new clothes?
Our life is slow and free, Asta is being homescholed. We are either at home or out spending time with friends.
We are on a path to find the right balance between fullfilling the individual needs in our family and being dedicated members of a bigger community of homeschoolers on the island.
In our home all humans have equal worth, no matter their age. We believe it is important to be curious and respectful towards one another, and to practice how to communicate ones needs and boundaries.
We dream of being as selfsufficient with food as possible, and we eat a plantbased diet.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Art Projects
Language practice
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We believe that there is always something to learn from staying with and getting to know new people.
But more concretely, by staying at our place you can get a feeling of how it is to live on the island of Bornholm.
Elisabeth can offer knowledge about growing vegetables and vegan cooking. Sushi-making maybe?
Also, we are part of an homeschooling-community on the island, and we can give you insight into a alternative way to live and parent.
We live a quite calm and stress-free life, and we can help you explore the island and any interests you might have.
We always try to ask our workawayers what they want to get out of their stay in our home, and we try to facilitate whatever activity they are interested in doing.
Projects involving children
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Help
We want you to come and be part of our daily life, spending time with Asta, giving a hand in the the kitchen garden, cooking dinner and cleaning up afterwards.
We also have some different projects, mostly in the garden, painting furniture and plenty of other things.
We have lots of big and small projects, and we'll love for you to come and share you talents or passions with us.
Whether you love working in the garden, long walks, cooking, building, fixing, playing - we can find a project for you for sure!
Day to day life in our little family includes things like vegan cooking, working in the garden, maintenance of our house, tidying up and cleaning.
We have a bit of a daily routine (it suits some of our familymembers), and we would love for you to help with that. Besides that days are very different, depending on the season and what we feel is important right now.
Generally you will be Elisabeth's right hand, and together you will figure out what it is that you can best contribute with.
We also hope that you and our daughter Asta will be able to have fun together and hang out. Asta loves playing, reading, swinging and jumping on the trampolin.
If you know how to cook vegan food, are interested in growing vegetables, can take initiative when you see that something need cleaning/tidying up, loves painting/fixing things and/or loves hanging out with kids, you are the workawayer of our dreams!
Languages
Languages spoken
Danish: Fluent
English: Fluent
Finnish: Fluent
Swedish: Fluent
French: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
We speak Danish, Finnish and English at home. We are always up for learning a new language or practice some of the languages we are not fluent in yet! Both Tuomas and Elisabeth finds French fun! Asta primarily speaks Danish, but she understands Finnish, English and some German. We would love a Finnish speaking workawayer! We have had many Japanese workawayers, and have learned a couple of phrases.
Accommodation
You will sleep in you own room in our house.
We cook and eat together, all food is vegan.
What else ...
Public transport is not great here on the island. We travel around on our electric cargo-bikes, and we also have one for you to borrow.
If you are interested in going sightseeing, we are up for borrowing our neighbours car and showing you around.
Theres plenty of interesting spots on Bornholm, a very varied an beautiful nature and great beaches.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have a decent wifi connection and space for you to sit and work comfortably.
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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Haruka is wonderful. She is an amazing young woman, so eager to experience and learn more and so curious about life around her. She is also very skilled, she is a great… read more
Knowing how the family lived beforehand made it easier for me to adjust.
•My main tasks
I made pancakes every day for breakfast, cooked dinner… read more
I never forget how she just seemed to appear outside our door, in the middle of a snowstorm and with her ginormous suitcase. Power woman!
Fuko helped us with so many things, cooking, cleaning. She house/dog-sat while we went for a 4 day family trip to Copenhagen - that… read more
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Haruka is wonderful. She is an amazing young woman, so eager to experience and learn more and so curious about life around her. She is also very skilled, she is a great… read more
Knowing how the family lived beforehand made it easier for me to adjust.
•My main tasks
I made pancakes every day for breakfast, cooked dinner… read more
I never forget how she just seemed to appear outside our door, in the middle of a snowstorm and with her ginormous suitcase. Power woman!
Fuko helped us with so many things, cooking, cleaning. She house/dog-sat while we went for a 4 day family trip to Copenhagen - that… read more
Aina helped with cooking, cleaning, gardening, hanging out with the kids.
She cooked a lot of delicious vegan Japanese food - we feel so lucky that we found a Japanese vegan (or that she found us)!
She just fitted straight into our family, she was great company and a… read more
She helped with cooking, cleaning, gardening and spending time with the kids. She also went sightseeing by herself and biked on some pretty long bike-trips.
Midori is calm, independent and attentive. She is good with people (big and small) and very good company.
Midori is a great chef! She cooked… read more
She came straight from Okinawa to Bornholm and we were lucky to get to introduce her to Denmark and the danish culture.
She helped with cooking, cleaning, playing with the kids, working in the garden and all kinds of projects.
She also house/animal-sat for a week when we travelled to… read more
Renata fitted right into our family life. She's funny, easy to be around, independent, energetic and direct. And she's incredibly cool and strong, biking crazy amounts of kilometres every day and fitting all her stuff on… read more
I will never forget my first work&travel experience at this open minded and kind family! I felt welcome from the first second on and also really comfortable the hole time! I got a wonderful tiny room with the best accessories on my bed (cat Gordan and dog Jackson and also sometimes cat Happy… read more
We had actually decided to take a break from having workawayers, because of Elisabeth's pregnancy, but then Marilu wrote and we changed our minds - she seemed a perfect match for our family.
It was a big help to have Marilu… read more
And she was such a big help and fantastic company. She helped at the event, she hang out with Asta, took care of dinner and… read more
Anna blended right into our family life and we all loved spending time with her
She was so warm, helpful, generous, respectful and energetic, and our daughter loved to hang out and play with her. We had many good talks and our house is much cleaner now than before!
She… read more
