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9th June - 27th June
I'm looking for one helper :)
Hello, I'm Davide
I'm 42, I have 3 children (2009,2011,2015)
I live mainly alone and only sometimes (at weekends) I live with my children.
I'm divorced. So now I'm rebuilding my happy life! :)
I bought a new house with garden in the countryside in Castelspina (province of Alessandria, Piemonte)
It needs a lot of care. I'm creative and craft and I'm going to do a lot of activities around the house :)
I hosted about 30 workawayers in our family before the divorce so I'm experienced with workaway + I lived in a variety of ecovillages and communities. Please check my feedbacks here in workaway :)
I'm a craftman and I lived ina variety of Permaculture and Ecovillages experiences so I can shere with you my knowledge and many skills about how to fix a house with natural materials, woodworking, painting, refurbish, reuse, recycle and upgrading, and so on.
I will be happy to listen to your ideas and to find maybe new ways how to do things. I would be happy if you could share you creativity and skills with me and with my new life project.
I play drums and a bit of guitar, music can be a glue and a pleasure during our days. We can also make the fire outdoor at night sometimes.
Furthermore I'm a Nonviolent Communication teacher and that's also another skill that I use and that I can share with you :)
I speak italian, English and Spanish.
I need help to fix pieces of the new house, to clean old rooms and stuff and to care the garden.
Cooking is a shared task, it means that we both will Cook as part of the same family for some days or weeks, I'm not very passionale about cooking and I don't cook all the meals for the helper because I want a mutual sharing of daily life and of daily basic house holding tasks.
Thry are not included in helping time: cooking, wash the dishes, clean the bathroom if need ed and so on... For me they are shared daily life tasks, do you agree?
I'm also very busy. I prefer that we take our personal agreements about food and cooking day by day.
I try to buy organic food even if it's not always easy for me and my diet is mainly vegetarian but not strict.
I live in the countryside, 20 km far from Alessandria town.
There are some busses from Castelspina to Alessandria town.
If you're looking for a city life, this offer is not for you :)
I'm not the person that will drive you to the restaurants and to the mall every weekend. :)
I prefer to stay in nature and to have a walk or to read a book, ecc.
I'm a pretty simple person, mainly out of the consumistic and mainstream way of life.
I'm more like a "hippie style" or a self crafting countryside man.
You'll be hosted in a private bedroom, the house is in repairing mode so you need to be a bit flexible with the quality of the accomodation. We have 1 bathroom at the ground floor. I'm builind a compost toilet too.
I have a courtyard and a garden, at all it's about 450 squared meters.
Sometimes I will go away for job or to visit my children and it could be that you will stay at home alone for some days,
it depends on my calendar. You can also come with your van if you have one and we can agree about a space where to park it.
No drugs into the property.
I prefer No Smokers people :)
I drink alcool very rarely, maybe at some meals and some parties :)
Minimum stay for 2 weeks or stay for a longer period.
Please feel free to write me and to ask me questions about my offer.
I'm looking forward to meet you in person!
Warmly
Davide + 3 children.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Van life
Sustainability
Self development
Politics / Social justice
Farming
Music
DIY & crafts
Carpentry
Yoga / Wellness
Winter sports
Water sports
Team sports
Outdoor activities
Sailing / Boating
Nature
Mountain
Hiking
Beach
Camping
Cycling
Adventure sports
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
I can share with you italian language, my Nonviolent Communication skills, permaculture knowledge, many fixing and building and refurbishing skills. I can teach you some basics about drums (African djembè), about cold bath Wim Hof method and breathing awareness exercises. I don't have so much time to spend going around for sightseeing or for turism. You are free to travel in your free time :)
Help
Help
I need help to fix home, diy and creativity tasks
I need help for cleaning home and for caring the garden.
Our target will be to create a new paradise in this abandoned place.
Sometimes we will work together, sometimes I will give you task to do by yourself.
I like to organize our schedule according to the preferences of both of us :)
I can share with you my knowledge and skills and also I Like to teach italian language.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Spanish: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
I'm interested in improving my english and spanish and I can share italian with you :)
Accommodation
I can give you a private room.
Now the house is to fix so the rooms need to be fixed too. I think we can find a good solution together. During summer you can also stay in your tent if you prefer. You can come with your van if you have one.
Meals are cooked by us. I'm not so fixed in making 3 meals a day, sometimes I skip or I eat fruits along the day. This is to say pleaase not to take offence if I will not be focus ed on 3 meals every day. We can cook together sometimes and You can have always regular meals if you want, or you can eat along the day as you wish. I think we can arrange it very well according to our preferences :) I usually try to eat organic and quite simple food, I'm omnivorous and I eat mainly vegetarian but not strict. Meat and fish are rare in my diet
What else ...
Next Villages are 1 and 2,5 2 km far from home.
City is around 15/20 km far from home
Bus stop is 10 minutes walking far from home. Bus takes 30 minutes to go to the city.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
At the moment I don't have wi-fi I can share my network by mobile hotspot I can host digital nomads
Space for parking camper vans
If you are interested in coming with your campervan, we can talk about it :) I also have one.
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Feedback (18)
The communication was not always so easy for us and… read more
With Anja it was easy to set up the agreements for the common life and to make plans for the daily tasks. She was happy to stay with the children also sometimes in her free time and she was very happy to play with them. We had the possibility to talk about life,… read more
The kids are adorable. I liked how they always… read more
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The communication was not always so easy for us and… read more
With Anja it was easy to set up the agreements for the common life and to make plans for the daily tasks. She was happy to stay with the children also sometimes in her free time and she was very happy to play with them. We had the possibility to talk about life,… read more
The kids are adorable. I liked how they always… read more
It was my first workaway experience, and I left my heart there!
It´s very difficult to say in a few words how thankful I am.
I stayed there for 10 months, we have been through many things together, but in special Corona Virus.
This family is realy special and will be in my heart forever!
We shared our love, fears and… read more
The communication was always clear since the beginning. We really enjoyed the long term exchange (3 months) because it gave us the time to know each other and to have confidence in daily life, in children care, in house care and in extra activieties like talking, going to visit a castle, going to a workshop… read more
Communication was very clear from the outset, which made it extremely easy to integrate into the family unit.
The kids are amazing and it was so much fun to take care of them.… read more
Anyway we had a great communication based on clarity and kindness. She kept us updated step by step about VISA's procedure and She updated us as soon as it was possible in order to help us to organize our calendar.
Thanks Fatemah for the clarity and we hope to host you one… read more
On one side Verena helped us with many tasks: in the garden, household, with children and also teaching violin to our Daughter and we were mainly very… read more
The area around Bergamo is awesome, especially if you like to be outdoors and in the… read more
Since the first day, we received a great help by you both in the house, in the garden and with children.
It was easy for us to schedule the days with you.
Your willingness to help and your flexibility created a good mood in us and thay were very effective for our daily life.
We wish you all the… read more
We had great exchange with Goda. She was very quiet and respectfull in our house. She loved to help in everything we needed expecially sewing and childcare. Our children had a great time with Goda and they made a lot of origami together.
We really appreciate your presence Goda, we wish you all the best for your new… read more
We also appreciate a lot the exchange of knowledge about food, pie and Kombucha. Thanks and thanks and best wishes for yournext adventures.
We really appreciate her willingness to help us with every work we needed in the house, in the garden, with children and practical works.
I value Jolien responsible and carefull in doing the works and in the quality of presence with children.
Thanks a lot Jolien. We wish you all the best for… read more
I felt very welcome and I was happy to share their way of life. Communication was easy and they were very accomodating, I appreciated finding agreements day by day according to my plans.
I was happy to help with gardening, picking fruits, some practical work in the garage, cleaning and… read more
I really enjoyed to stay with you for two month. It was interesting to get to know your way of life and your appreciative way to treat all the people around you (including myself :) ). I felt comfortable to be with the family, we did agreements day by day together. I helped to build some wodden stuff for the… read more
