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After a break, we are back looking for workawayers to join our little family here on Bornholm.
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 want you to come be a part of our family. We prefer that you stay for at least a month, longer is even better! We like you to be proactive and interested in getting to know us, we really want to get to know you!
In the end of April, Elisabeth is organizing a big clothes swap event, maybe you want to help out?
We are a small family, living on the beautiful danish island Bornholm: Mira, Asta, Tuomas and Elisabeth, and our dog Jackson and cat Kleopatra.
We live in an old trainstation with a big garden, in biking distance from Rønne (the biggest city on the island), the beach and the forest.
We need help with gardening, maintenance of our house, making and stacking firewood, cooking, cleaning, playing with the kids, making projects and enjoying life in general!
Our life is slow and free, Asta is being homeschooled. We are either at home or out spending time with friends.
We are on a path to find the right balance between fulfilling 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
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
House sitting
Interests
Nature
Yoga / Wellness
Outdoor activities
Animals
History
Music
Writing
Charity work
Self development
Sustainability
Pets
Vegetarian or vegan
Languages
Plant care
DIY & crafts
Books
Gardening
Cooking & food
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.
If you are young and thinking of starting your own family in the future, staying with us can give you an idea about how family-life can look. Since we are doing quite a few things different than the norm, it might give some food for thought. Also, we are part of an homeschooling-community on the island, and we can give you insight into an alternative way to live and parent.
Elisabeth can offer knowledge about growing vegetables and vegan cooking. Sushi-making maybe?
We live a quite calm and stress-free life, and we can help you explore the island and any interests you might have. You will have plenty of time to go explore the island, or do whatever you want.
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
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We want you to come and be part of our daily life, spending time with Asta and Mira, giving a hand in the the kitchen garden, cooking dinner and cleaning up afterwards.
We have some different projects, mostly in the garden, lots of cleaning, painting furniture and plenty of other things - the to do list is long.
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 daughters Asta and Mira will be able to have fun together and hang out. Asta loves playing, reading, swinging and jumping on the trampolin. Mira loves all kinds of playing, jumping, wearing dresses and much more.
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!
Before you arrive, we will send you a welcome letter with all kinds of information. When you are here, we will get to know each other and figure out how you will contribute to daily life,
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! And we are quite fascinated with Japanese, and are slowly learning. The kids speaks Danish and English and understand Finnish. They love to teach Danish to our guests. 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 a bike for you to borrow. We even have a bike that fits short guests (150 cm) and a bike for higher guests :-)
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. We have hosted several digital nomads already.
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
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My main tasks were cleaning, cooking, and helping with other household chores. Every task was easy enough that I had plenty of time for myself. My favorite moments were the cozy evenings after dinner-the hygge time when… read more
Sora helped us with cleaning, organising, she played with the kids and was part of our family while she was here.
Sora is really good at organising and cleaning, she was so helpful and proactive. She left our house much cleaner and tidier!
She also makes a mean miso soup, we made a… read more
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My main tasks were cleaning, cooking, and helping with other household chores. Every task was easy enough that I had plenty of time for myself. My favorite moments were the cozy evenings after dinner-the hygge time when… read more
Sora helped us with cleaning, organising, she played with the kids and was part of our family while she was here.
Sora is really good at organising and cleaning, she was so helpful and proactive. She left our house much cleaner and tidier!
She also makes a mean miso soup, we made a… read more
Yukimi is awesome! She was like a big sister for our kids, always ready to play with them on the trampolin or just goof around with them. She was also like a sister to me, so helpful and caring, we had many great conversations and lots of fun together.
Yukimi is a great cook, she helped us with… read more
Ako is an excellent cook, and we made many delicious Japanese meals together! She is really good with kids, and she did different creative projects with our oldest daughter, papercrafts and such.
Ako also helped us with some cleaning/decluttering projects.
She was only with us for a short… read more
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
