Join our family and collaborate with daily life and English language in Ribes, Spain

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  Description

  Hola! I am Cristina (49) and we are a family of three along with my two kids, Abril (12) and Marc (8).
  
  We are new here and we are very interested in sharing our life, our home and our culture with a woman in exchange for a constant English language immersion with my kids and help at home.
  
  We live 4kms away from Sitges, in the beautiful village of Sant Pere de Ribes, a safe and charming place surrounded by vineyards. Full services by walking distance from our house.
  
  We are very well connected to Sitges and Barcelona through a bus service and trainlines available all day.
  
  My kids are home with me every other week, since they stay with their dad two weeks a month. However, the three of us are very close, so even if they stay at their dad's they're home with me a couple of days a week, too.
  
  Sant Pere de Ribes is a lovely village with many cafés and bar terraces and the daily chance to enjoy the sunny weather on them while having an ice cream, a coffee or a good book. Sitges is only 4kms away and it is very well connected by bus, taxi or a 10min bike ride .

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Language practice

  Babysitting and creative play

  Help around the house

  Light maintenance
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  Interests

  

  Events & social

  

  Culture

  

  Movies & TV

  

  Performing arts

  

  Music

  

  DIY & crafts

  

  Books

  

  Languages

  

  Cooking & food

  

  Team sports

  

  Nature

  

  Beach

  

  Hiking
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  We are a laid back Catalan family with local habits as far as schedules, free-time activities and cultural preferences. We cook on a daily basis and we live on seasonal, traditional homemade Catalan/Spanish cooking,cinema and sharing many moments with close friends. We try to enjoy slow life/local way of living, with the occasional getaways when we get the chance. My kids are eager to learn English so we ask for full English communication in return. We are not offering a language exchange since our interest is being fully immersed in English with the workawayer. Please, no native Spanish-speaking workawayers.
  We live 200m away from a sports center with gym, indoors and outdoors swimming pools and green spaces with facilities for calistenia. Plenty of paths for hiking and biking too starting from our own street.
  The village we live in has many cultural festivities throughout the year, a great change to live the culture and interact with locals.
  Mild winters with sunny days all year round.

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  Help

  Our main focuses for the woman who joins us at home are:
  -Spending time with the kids on a daily basis, while sharing moments of games, duties or conversation only in English with them and with me too.
  -Cooperate with the daily caring and maintenance cleaning of the house, with one day per week of focus on the general house cleaning.
  -A person who is trained and familiar with physical activity, Pilates, strength training or such activities that can be done at home as a guided workout.
  -Being good at small DIY improvements around the house is very much welcome.

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  Languages spoken

  Catalan: Fluent
  English: Fluent
  Spanish: Fluent
  Dutch: Beginner

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  Accommodation

  Private room. Shared bathroom with two kids.
  
  All meals are provided every other week, Monday trough Friday, when kids are home for the whole week and help and collaboration is expected every day. We always share meals together with time for conversation, relax and fun. Catalan/Spanish cooking is our main diet and culture.
  When kids are not home every other week, all the meals of the week are the workawayer's responsibility,

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  What else ...

  We are looking for a woman workawayer. Preferably a native English speaking person and specially a non-native Spanish speaker.
  A person who is trained. professionally or wide-experienced wise. in physical activity and can guide regular personal training for me at home.
  Respect, trust and manners are main values in our home.
  Workawayer responsibilities are daily Mon-Friday but mainly condensed every other week.
  When kids are home for the week, collaboration, caring for them and help around the house are expected on a daily basis.
  The weeks when kids are away, there's more free time for the whole week except one day where house cleaning needs to be done. For that week, workawayer is autonomous on their own meals.

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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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  Can host digital nomads

  This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  One

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  My animals / pets

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