Help with our daughter and housecare in Rouen, Normandy

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Hello,
We are a couple with a little girl. We are musicians in an operahouse and we are working some evenings and week-ends. We live in a nice loft in the heart of Rouen, Normandy. We are looking for someone to help for babysitting and housecare.

Bonjour, nous sommes un couple avec un bébé. nous sommes musiciens à l'opéra de Rouen et nous travaillons certains soirs et week-ends. Nous habitons un loft au coeur de Rouen, Normandie. Nous cherchons quelqu'un pour du babysitting et l'entretien de la maison.
Type of help
Babysitting / child care
General Maintenance
Help in the house
Language practice
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Share some nice family time with us! And some apero time! I love cooking, and i also offer some pastries classes in my house. You can also go to concerts and shows at Rouen opera house, we have tickets very often! And meet our friends, we like to have parties and to invite people
Help
We are looking fore someone to help with babysitting and housecare. We prefer someone who speak english with our daughter...
Sometime we work long hours (long concerts or late rehearsals) and sometime we are very free, so the hours of babysitting and housecare will be balance with our planning every week. Our daughter is going to kindergarten on the day.
Languages spoken
French, English, a little spanish
Accommodation
A room with private bathroom in the first floor of our house. Very independant, the main floor is at second floor and our rooms are in the third floor.
What else ...
The position of the house is very central. You can walk everywhere, visit, go to the market, shopping etc..

How to reach Rouen :
- you can take a train from Paris (gare Saint-Lazare). It take about 1h15
- from Paris Airport Charles de Gaulle you have a direct bus to Rouen
A little more information
- Internet access
- Limited internet access
- We have pets
- We are smokers
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Hours expected
4 hours/day, 5 days/ week maximum

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11/11/2019

Left by host for Workawayer (Şükran)

Sukran stayed with us for 40 days. It was a real pleasure to have her here. She is very open minded and smart, and was very positive and curious about everything. We had a great time talking and being with her. She is also discret and independent. All went very well with our daughter, she take a very good care of her, playing, learning some… read more

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04/11/2019

Left by Workawayer (Şükran) for host

I stayed with this lovely family for almost 1,5 months and it was my first experience as a workawayer.

Helene, Jacques and Solveig live in a big amazing house (which was once a kind of greenhouse and they converted it to a house themselves with the help of an architect friend!). I had my room downstairs and bathroom in it which provided me with… read more all the privacy I needed. The house is located in the lively part of the city, close to everywhere (to the river, famous buildings, museum, train station etc). Thanks to its location, I was able to go wherever I want by train, bus or shared car. And I walked and biked in the city a lot :)

Helene is a sincere and open-minded person. You can talk to her about anything. Her English is very good. She is into cooking and baking, and I really appriciated it when I tasted her delicious food and joined her baking workshop. We went out with her a couple of times (for shopping, a museum and a drink), and I enjoyed it a lot. We also spent 2 days in Paris. She is also very helpful; let me use her old phone and bike. She is a big inspiration for me; she is cool and talented in everything she tries :)

Jacques is very kind and open-minded. He practices his instrument at home a lot, I could listen to it. He really likes food, and got some seafood for us that I've never tried before which I enjoyed a lot. He is knowledgeable about cinema, and it is nice to talk to him about it because he knows a lot of directors and films. We watched films with their projector. He is intellectual and fun to be around. I feel so lucky to meet him and enjoyed having conversations with him :)

Solveig is the most lovely kid ever! I really liked spending time with her, she easily gets happy. Playing, dancing and talking with her are my favorite activities. I got happy when she learned a couple of English words. I've missed her already!

In general, workload was appropriate; I had a lot of free time and traveled a lot to Paris, seacoast and other cities in Normandy. I saw beautiful villages. I saw their rehersals in the opera, went to a concert and saw a film with the tickets Helene and Jacques provided. They made sure I was comfortable and okay all the time. I felt like a family member, and I'm grateful for everything! Also I must say that they are very social and their friends are sooo fun :)

Helene, Jacques and Solveig; thank you for everything; it was the most interesting and beautiful trip in my life and you are a big part of it. I hope someday we meet again.
Sincerely,
Şükran

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