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Current availability: April - July 2022
Experience Rural South Western Alberta! Less than an hour from the Rocky Mountains, 2 hours to Banff National Park, 1.5 hours to the Royal Tyrrell Museum in the Alberta Badlands. Our small family lives in a beautiful home in a small and active town between Edmonton and Calgary.
Help would include some cleaning and cooking and helping Francesca with baby Sophia. Cody always has little projects around the house, yard and in the garden.
During your stay, you will likely have opportunities to:
- Meet people from the area
- Play or listen to live music
- Walk, hike or bike in the area and in the Rocky Mountains
- Visit cool and unique places
- Cook and bake with Francesca
- Help out in the gardens and yard
- Learn new skills
Some of our past guests are from Switzerland, Japan, Germany, Korea, Australia, France, Quebec, Ontario, and we all had fun!
Our home is close to Banff, Calgary, Edmonton, and lots of great sites. We love to take day trips from time to time around the area, and during the week we enjoy a fairly relaxed time at home or around town, with friends and family and with all that Alberta has to offer. In the area, there are opportunities in the winter to downhill ski/snowboard, cross-country ski, snowshoe, play in the snow, and in the summer: bicycle (cross country, road, mountain bike), hike, skateboard (in our skatepark), and year round: walk in nature, socialize, try new things, listen to live music, etc. We love to play music and learn from other musicians.
Accommodations: Large, nicely furnished private bedroom. Our house is big and comfy, freshly renovated and is situated in a beautiful and quiet neighbourhood, close to walks in the woods and parks. We also have a large yard (1/2 acre) with a vegetable garden and trees.
Food: We eat a varied diet; mainly organic, and can easily accommodate vegan / vegetarian / non-gluten diets
Let us know if you have some time on your journey to visit, help out and see Central Alberta, and the Eastern Rockies.
Cody and Francesca
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Canadian culture, english language, cooking nutritious meals, gardening and yard work skills, permaculture skills, music (guitar, accordion and piano).
Help
Most of the Volunteer help will be:
- Cooking family meals
- Cleaning
- Light projects around the house
- Gardening
- Yard work
-Etc..
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
French: Intermediate
Spanish: 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
Large, nicely furnished private bedroom with a comfortable bed, and TV with chromecast. Access to Netflix
What else ...
Ideally, we would like to have one non-smoking workawayer stay for a minimum of 2 weeks. Time off can be spent around town visiting friends, or meeting new people, listening to live music, or heading out to the Rocky Mountains, the Little Red Deer river, the Alberta Badlands and Tyrell Museum of Paleontology. Calgary is an hour away by car.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have fiber optic - SUPER FAST internet, with unlimited upload/download. Legal work only.
Space for parking camper vans
Large driveway can accommodate a large campervan or RV
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
My animals / pets
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Feedback (3)
It was a great experience for me.
My main job was playing with their daughter, Sophia.
She is pretty and powerful and I had fun!!
Cody and Francesca were so kind.
They took me hiking, to the lake and downtown on my dayoff.
They were busy preparing to move at that time, but they accepted me.
I can't thank you… read more
We worked in a church which they are renovating, in the garden, did house-cleaning and cooking.
They volunteer a lot and they are conscientious about their diet.
Francesca is a nice cook and we could participate at their pizza party.
Thanks a lot!
Anne helped us in the garden, in the kitchen and with other jobs here and there, and she always went above and beyond to make sure that her work was complete and well-done. She was great with the kids and a… read more
My experience in Olds with Cody, Francesca, Mateo, Pablo and their cat Pixie was so great. Not only are they kind, caring and hospitable people but they are interesting, creative, fun and they think outside of the box.
Francesca is an amazing cook and they eat super healthy, organic food… read more
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Feedback
It was a great experience for me.
My main job was playing with their daughter, Sophia.
She is pretty and powerful and I had fun!!
Cody and Francesca were so kind.
They took me hiking, to the lake and downtown on my dayoff.
They were busy preparing to move at that time, but they accepted me.
I can't thank you… read more
We worked in a church which they are renovating, in the garden, did house-cleaning and cooking.
They volunteer a lot and they are conscientious about their diet.
Francesca is a nice cook and we could participate at their pizza party.
Thanks a lot!
Anne helped us in the garden, in the kitchen and with other jobs here and there, and she always went above and beyond to make sure that her work was complete and well-done. She was great with the kids and a… read more
My experience in Olds with Cody, Francesca, Mateo, Pablo and their cat Pixie was so great. Not only are they kind, caring and hospitable people but they are interesting, creative, fun and they think outside of the box.
Francesca is an amazing cook and they eat super healthy, organic food… read more
