Help our family with English while you explore Grenchen, Switzerland

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  Description

  Our family consists of Mum (Andrea), Dad (Pascal), Leonie (10.2009) Haylee (12.2011) and Emily-Grace (08.2014)
  
  Andrea is a Dressmaker and Fashion-Designer with her own little Fashion-Studio in the House. Pascal works as a buyer and is responsible for the disposition in a large company.
  
  From 1995 till 1997 Pascal lived in Portland (Ont. - Canada). This is approx. 1 hour from Ottawa. He worked there on a Horse-Farm :-).
  
  Leonie, Haylee and Emily-Grace are (mostly) three very happy and easy-going Girls who enjoy the outdoors and sports. Leonie and Haylee would be in School every Morning and three afternoons. Also, they would be at Figure-Skating-Training quite often and at Piano (Leonie) and Violin (Haylee) once a week. Leonie and Haylee are speaking fluently English. Leonie also plays football successfully and Haylee does Horseback-Riding. If you don't find her, Haylee is in the horse stable. Emily-Grace is in Kindergarden and started also with Figure-Skating-Training once a week. The rest of the week she just enjoys here cuddles. She started also to speak in English :-). Our kids are quite independent, and an easy bunch to care for.
  
  During the holidays, depending on the weather, the children like to be outside and play with the neighbour's children or meet friends. When I have holidays too, we either go on holiday (to Brighton) or we do something with the girls (we go cycling, outings etc.). When it's hot, the girls go to the swimming pool. If the weather is bad, the girls play inside. Leonie usually has football training during the summer holidays and Haylee goes to the horses.
  
  We also have two dogs - a German Shepherd and a Collie, some Cats, 4 budgies and a lot of Fishes. So, it’s important to love animals :-) Hope this not a Problem.
  
  We are busy family of 5 with three Girls (born in 2009, 2011 and 2014). Pascal normally will be away for work during the day and Andrea will need a little help with the Girls (specially Emily-Grace) and in the household as she runs her own little Business and driving the bigger two to Trainings (so she is often a bit busy). We live in a nice single house in here in Switzerland. The place we live calls Grenchen (about 17'500 inhabitants). Grenchen is very centrally located and all major Swiss cities can be reached by train in 1 hour. We have two train stations which are reachable in a 10 minutes walk from our house. Also we live very close to the french-speaking part of Switzerland (10minutes).
  
  For our guests, we offer there own room. We have Netflix, SKY, Disney+ and WiFi. We are also happy to lend bicycles
  
  We are looking for someone who loves kids and animals as we have a few of them (Kids and Animals).We would like our girls to improve/train their English and/or French, so we are looking for guests who are native speakers of English and/or French or have a high level of proficiency in one (or both) of these languages.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Language practice

  Teaching

  Animal Care

  Babysitting and creative play

  Help around the house
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  We are looking for someone who would like to explore Switzerland/Europe, who loves kids and animals and who is interested in spending time with us, sharing culture and language. We would like our girls to improve/train their English, so we are looking for guests with high spoken level in English and/or French.
  We can give you references from guests, who have already been here. We had guests from: Australia, Canada, England, Czech Rep, Scotland…

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  Help

  Andrea will need a little help with the Girls (specially Emily-Grace) and in the household as she runs her own little Business and driving the bigger two to Trainings (so she is often a bit busy). In the morning, you would accompany Emily-Grace to School at some days, do some tasks in the (household vacuum cleaning) and helping with the meals. Twice a week you're looking for Emily-Grace.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  German: Fluent
  English: Fluent

  This host offers a language exchange
  We would like our girls to improve/train their English, so we are looking for guests with high spoken level in English and/or French. You could improve your German with us. You would learn about Swiss life, Swiss culture and you can taste typical Swiss food and other international food.
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  Accommodation

  For our guests, we offer there own room. We have Netflix, SKY, Disney+ and WiFi. We are also happy to lend bicycles.

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  What else ...

  We live in a beautiful area near the river Aare and a beautiful nature reserve. Very nice bicycle tours or hikes can be made here. On the other side we have the Grenchenberg (1'400 metres above sea level). Grenchen is close to French-speaking Switzerland. All major cities are also easily accessible by train in max. 1 hour.

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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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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  One

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