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11 Oct 2025
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Description
My name is Birgitta. I am an 82 year old single lady living in a house with garden, 15 km from town Porvoo and 60 km from Helsinki. I would need some support in cleaning and gardening. I love to cook and bake. My mother language is Swedish. I speak Finnish and English and a bit German.
I am in a theatre club and like social happenings, on the other hand I am a cozy granny who loves jazz music and music in general.
If you need a relaxing place without any stress, my place is perfect for you.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
Help around the house
Interests
Movies & TV
Events & social
Performing arts
Music
Gardening
Cooking & food
Art & design
Nature
Dancing
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
In Porvoo cinema and other cultural happenings. With host Swedish and Finnish learning possibility. I would learn you to cook and bake if you are interested. With traditional wooden oven but also with electricity and Airfryer. History telling about Porvoo and Finland. Cozy country side living with a lady with sense of humour.
Help
Cleaning and gardening, also together
Languages
Languages spoken
Finnish: Fluent
Swedish: Fluent
English: Intermediate
German: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
An room of your own, free Wifi/WLAN, Sauna incl. in a house.
We discuss recipies and food traditions in Finland and other countries. I am open minded for new cooking ideas.
What else ...
I can take you to Porvoo by my car and also pick you up sometimes, but not on a daily basis. From Porvoo you can take a bus to Helsinki. (Flexible working hours on Friday if you have weekend plans. )
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
My animals / pets
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We started already at breakfast by singing old schlagers that were played every day.… read more
I enjoy helping Birgitta with home chores e.g. 1)… read more
Crisol new already everything and I guess it made Masato a bit uncertain and helpless it the situation.
I would have expected a little more help of Masato. Instead of that, I was cooking and Masato played his music and went jogging. I had a feeling I would be the… read more
She started the day by making fire in the oven, got firewood inside, prepaid breakfast.
She did the dishes, snow removal, cleaned the house very well. Sometimes as I was to supermarket I could return home to a cleaned house.
She joined me to the market, visited… read more
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We started already at breakfast by singing old schlagers that were played every day.… read more
I enjoy helping Birgitta with home chores e.g. 1)… read more
Crisol new already everything and I guess it made Masato a bit uncertain and helpless it the situation.
I would have expected a little more help of Masato. Instead of that, I was cooking and Masato played his music and went jogging. I had a feeling I would be the… read more
She started the day by making fire in the oven, got firewood inside, prepaid breakfast.
She did the dishes, snow removal, cleaned the house very well. Sometimes as I was to supermarket I could return home to a cleaned house.
She joined me to the market, visited… read more
She is very communicative with latin roots. For finnish mentality a bit vague and chaotic and time schedules are sometimes too flexible for an old lady with daily routines.
We helped her to find a place to stay in… read more
You aren't going to have tastier food than hers in the whole southern Finland.
My tasks consisted in cutting roses and branches in the garden, picking them up and taking them to a landfill, vacuuming the house once per week, bringing… read more
Regards Birgitta
