Come and live with me in a hundred year old school in Helsingborg, Sweden

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  Description

  My name is Moa, I am 38 years old and I have gone and bought myself a hundred year old brick house that used to be the village Östra Ljungby's school in Skåne. It's going to be my life long project and these first years I hope to bring it back to its old glory. I moved into the house in April 2022 I live here alone with my three cats and 6 chickens.
  
  I wanted to buy a big house to be able to host travellers as I can't go travel myself all the time, trying to make the world come to me, sort of. I work as an urban designer and transform problematic places with design and placemaking with social sustainability as my special skill at the Urban Planning Department in Helsingborg. I work full time so I often need you to do your hours in the evenings and in the weekends when I am present. This means you often have all daytime during the week to explore the area and chill.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Language practice

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Animal Care

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance

  Help with Computers/ Internet
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  There is so much to see in this region depending on your preferences. I can show you the best flea markets/thrift shops, cafées to have Swedish fika, nature trails, shopping, gardens and parks and castles. Medieval and viking history, whatever you want ;-) I have bikes you can borrow to go exploring on your own as well.
  
  In Sweden we don't go out and eat a lot in restaurants, we share a meal together at home with family or friends. So a lot of cultural exchange happens in the kitchen and around dinner time where all types of discussions between heaven and earth happens. We will cook together or share responsibilities of the meals. I love cooking and cook both vegetarian and with meat. Another important meal in Sweden is breakfast (it's the most important meal they say), my specialty is real healthy Swedish porridge or Sweidsh processed sour milk with granola/muesli and berries. And when it's not time for food, it's always time for fika. If you are up for it, we can try all sorts of Swedish cookies/cakes and bake them too.
  
  You will get the chance to learn about traditional building styles and techniques, refurbishing furniture and gardening. My house was built in 1919-1920 made from the best materials at the time. My goal is to bring it back, room by room to a more time appropriate interior and with traditional techniques. I hope to be able to accomodate your interests when volunteering here and what you want to learn, based on your skill level. I especially hope to be able to inspire other women to pick up tools and learning new skills.
  
  I work as an urban designer with placemaking and social sustainability for the City of Helsingborg, my hometown. I have also worked with the Helsingborg's Street Art festival ArtstreetHBG and can show you all the cool street art in the city.

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  Help

  If you have any experience with renovating I can probably host you anytime, so if you have any experience like masonry, carpentry, painting and such, then please write it in your message.
  
  If you don't have any experience I would still love to host you but I try to limit those type of tasks to certain times of the year. I have marked these months in the calendar here on my workaway profile. This could be cleaning up in the garden, weeding, cutting firewood and taming the wild garden. Weekly and seasonal cleaning of the house and renovation tasks that also beginners can do like paint removal and demolishing.
  
  Any extra hands when I renovate the house would be very helpful. Helping out and taming the wild garden. The house was abandoned for a couple of years and was neglected for the past 10 years.
  
  I am also vlogging about my renovation and could really use some help with editing videos (I use daVinci) and to make content for my Instagram account. If you have any experience in this then I can also host you anytime.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Swedish: Fluent
  Spanish: Beginner

  This host offers a language exchange
  I speak English and Norwegian and of course Swedish. I want to practise Spanish and French.
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  Accommodation

  There are at the moment two private bedrooms with a queen sized beds in each and one shared bathroom. I also have a sleeping sofa in my office for emergencies, but I prefer not to say yes to more than I can accomodate in my two guest rooms. And just to be clear, the house is in a renovation state and haven't been updated since the 80s. And half of the house is being teared apart so it's not a "finished-decorated-pretty-looking" house just yet :-) I haven't had hot water since January when the heater gave up and I need to finish a few more stages before it will work again, hopefully before it gets cold this winter.
  
  In Sweden we don't go out and eat a lot in restaurants, we share a meal together at home with family or friends. So a lot of cultural exchange happens in the kitchen and around dinner time where all types of discussions between heaven and earth happens. We will share responsibilities to make dinner meals. I love cooking and cook both vegetarian and with meat. Another important meal in Sweden is breakfast (it's the most important meal they say), my specialty is real healthy Swedish porridge or Sweidsh processed sour milk with granola/muesli and berries. And when it's not time for food, it's always time for Swedish fika.

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  What else ...

  There are nice beaches and hiking trails all over this region.
  
  It's possible to do day and weekend trips to Copenhagen, Louisiana Museum in Denmark, Malmö, beautiful Österlen, Kullabygden with Höganäs and Kullaberg and Gothenburg.
  
  Stockholm is 6 hours and Oslo 5 hours away by car. They are both easily accessible by cheap express buses from Helsingborg if you want to do a long weekend during your stay with me.
  
  Closest bus stop is 1 km away and takes you to Helsingborg in 35 minutes, leaving once to twice an hour from early morning to 9 P.M. on weekdays (later on Friday and Saturday evenings). Use the Skånetrafiken app to buy tickets and search for public transport. It operates in the whole region plus parts of Denmark (around the Öresund area). So use this app if you arrive in Copenhagen to take public transport all the way to my place. They don't accept cash on public transport, you will need a card in Sweden. Even in flea markets most people pay with their phone using the app Swish.

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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

  I don't have fiber, but the internet is good enough for me to do video meetings all day.

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  Space for parking camper vans

  The garden is 4000 m2.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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