Help with some home problems in Gniezno, Poland

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  Description

  Welcome!
  
  Please note that I can’t have volunteers with no feedback. I’m sorry, there is a better place than mine to be your first great workaway experience :)
  
  If you`re reading my feedback, it`s a bout my previous place to live. Now the situation has changed and I am renovating a house in the outskirts of Gniezno. Here there are two jobs:
  
  1. Gardening
  I need someone to bring my lush and very wild garden back to me... The weed is growing crazy, so most of the time is weeding, watering, giving natural fertilizers. Also a big work is to collect snails, which have taken over and just have a feast in my garden. I need someone to get there every evening and collect them.
  
  2. House renovation
  I need skilled people, who can do the walls, carpentery, some gardening work, finishing the interior. Maybe we`re even gonna renovate the wooden floor by ourselves? :) In need for really handy people, knows what tool and how to use it, someone with woodworking experience etc.
  
  gardening work? Depends on your skills, we can talk about everything and arrange. Unfortunatelly I can`t afford to have people who want to learn how to do stuff. I`m under a lot of pressure and I would like the place to shine asap :) Also help with lifting heavier stuff would be appreciated but not necessearly.
  
  My life is a bit crazy, but here`s my story.
  I`m Joanna and 3 years ago I moved out of Switzerland and started traveling. Now the time had come to work on my own projects back home and you are more than welcome to join, honestly - I need your help :)
  I used to work as a landscape architect, (which I might be doing again soon) but for now I`m so much into gardening and food preserving.
  Now I live in a house with 3 rooms and a garden which is flourishing and giving us food.
  Gniezno is a small town, but offering a few nice restaurants, 2 lakes in the city, a museum, a nice coffee shops, a cinema, a theatre and so on. I do have a bike for you to use. We can go to the forests, you can take a city break to Poznan, Wroclaw, we can go for yoga classes together. I`m in a small society so you`re welcome to participate in our events. Also 15 min biking away from the house ther`s gonna be a nice outdoor culture centre offering awesome concerts, workshop etc. starting from June. I will be going there regularly, you`re welcome to join :)
  
  The house renovation is still in process, I take baby steps, the bathroom is done, the kitchen is temporarly so still cooking on a gas stove.
  
  Cheers! Joanna

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Help with Eco Projects

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  I love fermenting veggies so we could do some sauerkraut or fermented beetroot or radishes or kimchi or your own creation! you get to know my experience and stories cause I travel a lot (I`m doing workaway too!), I have many books also in English and German, you can use my sewing machine, I also have some creative tools like paints, cameras, papers etc. I can teach you how to sew, some yoga poses. You can go for walks, take a train to Poznan and have a city trip, we can go for concerts, yoga classes together etc.

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  Help

  for example:
  
  - plastering and painting walls
  - carpentry
  - helping with a van?
  - small repairs
  - gardening
  - building a wooden bed
  - changing lamps
  - renewing old chairs
  - house maintaining works like painting, helping around the house
  - you can also cook sometimes if you like cooking
  - organising some spaces like laundry room, finishing a wall and making shelves
  - preparing a bonfire area
  - making some benches
  - cutting the grass, all the gardening work

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Polish: Fluent
  German: Intermediate

  This host offers a language exchange
  Let me teach you some Polish!
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  Accommodation

  The place is a mess right now but we`ll find a place for you to sleep, it`s just that we`re gonna have to make it nice. The big kitchen and bathroom renovation is planned to be done by the professionals, that can mean some shower inconveniences may happen :) when it`s warmer we can cook outside, which also has to be arranged first.
  
  I cook only vegetarian but I eat meat sometimes, if you don`t like sth, you can always cook for yourself. or for us :)

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  What else ...

  There is a bicycle for some rounds around the city or to the lakes. coffee shops, Cathedral, Museum, swimming pool, shops, I can drive you to the train station so you can take a trip to Poznań (40 min by train) with a super nice old town and a rich night life.
  
  I would like you to respect myhome like it is your own and have a positive attitude. We will be always talking about what you would like to do to fit the tasks for your skills so no worries.
  I also might sometimes have students wanting to learn English, if you`re willing to talk with them cause you`re a native maybe, that would be awesome :)
  
  I speak Polish, English and German.

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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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  Space for parking camper vans

  Yes, sure!

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  Two

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