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Host is looking for help immediately
Host rating
80 %
Last replied
11 Apr 2024
Reply rate
95.2 %
Usually responds within 3 days
Feedback
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Description
I am born in Germany and a kind of nomad. I love the Scandinavian countries and immigrated to the North of Norway after my studies. I spend most of my life time in Sweden, but recently I worked and lived abroad in 11 years. I love to meet all kind of people, work, live and learn together as I did the last years in International Schools. I just returned to my little house in a village in the South of Sweden, because my daughters and grand children live near by. I love to meet them as often as possible for small adventures and dinners.
You find three university cities near by: Lund, Malmö and Copenhagen, but you even find beautiful nature around: Nationalpark 800 m away, naturereserve 100 m, lakes in bicykel distance, outdoor bath 250 m, great sandy beaches around, 24 km to 65 km distance. I want to start a collective living here, just now it is only me and sometimes a student, renting a room.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
I am a teacher, worked with language and literature all my life, but even as a teacher in sustainable tourism and tour operator. My interests are to work for peace, have a suistainable lifestyle with recykling, permaculture. I lived in Scandinavia about half part of my life, 30 years, and can tell you a lot about both nature and culture: customs, history, landskapes, food, touristic attractions. Recently volunteers who want to settle down in Sweden got to hear about my experiences and I can help with practical steps.
Besides this I am a certified mountain guide in Sweden and love to use food from nature to prepare delcious vegetarian food.
Help
According to permaculture we complete some garden projects in order to become more selfsufficient. It is all from cleaning the beds from weeds to constructing new beds, pruning fruittrees, planting, compost building to harvesting and preserving veggies and friuts.
Just now I welcome urgent help with building a ground for a new greenhouse, for making rosearches and fences with willow branches. Even a new flowerbed is on my mind.
Some help with cleaning the cellar and painting is allways welcome. I got a wooden stove and need to provide wood for it.
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Norwegian: Fluent
Swedish: Fluent
French: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
I am a language person and have professional skills to train a new language
Accommodation
Simple, but charmig: private sleepingroom, shared bathroom or in summer time: room in garden house with WC and shower inside the main house. I provide you of course with food, a or two vegetarian/vegan warm meals a day (I even worked as a cook and my food is international cooking, mostly asian style).
What else ...
The village has the oldest stone church in the South of Sweden, I have bicykles, there is public transport in form of buses from the village to the town and train 1station, 10 km far away in Lund. As mentioned above, there are countless possibilities for events and adventures in nature and culture here. I even live beside an ecovillage that is interesting to get to know. I am just retired, hope to restart my writing soon. During my life time I have mostly lived with people and I feel it natural to share living with all kind of people. The last decade I lived with much younger people which meant a mutal exchange: they teach me about their country and history, their understanding of life, help me with IT, I share my life experiences and knowledge with them.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (12)
She knows a lot about mushrooms, we went on a few walks together to pick some and her food was always a delight. Especially when you know that most of it comes from her own garden!
She utilises everything and knows how to process things, I… read more
I can’t believe it was only two weeks. Christine has many experience, knows lots of things. So I experienced and knew many new things from her. I enjoyed to talk a lot every day.
There are many kind of seasonal flowers, vegetables and fruits in her garden.
Our task was preparation for winter or… read more
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She knows a lot about mushrooms, we went on a few walks together to pick some and her food was always a delight. Especially when you know that most of it comes from her own garden!
She utilises everything and knows how to process things, I… read more
I can’t believe it was only two weeks. Christine has many experience, knows lots of things. So I experienced and knew many new things from her. I enjoyed to talk a lot every day.
There are many kind of seasonal flowers, vegetables and fruits in her garden.
Our task was preparation for winter or… read more
I mostly worked in the garden & Christine was always looking for jobs that I enjoyed.
There were super delicious meals made from fresh vegetables straight from the garden and one afternoon she showed me how to make sushi (that was amazing :D)
We could always have good… read more
Dear Christine
My Sweden/Norway trip started on May 5th, 2022 with you in Dalby and I'm still 800 kilometers away from Nordkapp. Actually it all started when I saw your beautiful photo with the midsummer wreath on your head. It felt very familiar between us. Then, after a long private correspondence, we… read more
In the beginning I had hardly any idea about gardening and she taught me a lot and took the time to explain everything well.
Christine ist a very open and nice person who can tell many stories about her life that are very interesting.
There are many beautiful places nearby… read more
Most of the time I have independently cut trees, but Christine always helps actively when she has time and therefore we have also realized some things together like braiding a fence and cleaning up the shed. I enjoyed working with her and… read more
Christine needed a gardener instead of a… read more
From the moment I arrived (and beyond), Christine was very hospitable and accommodating. Throughout my stay she went out of her way to… read more
When we arrived, we weren't exactly sure what to get stuck into and we lacked a bit of direction but she was open to ideas. We decided on a project… read more
