Agni

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Description

I am the type of person which I have always considered myself lucky, even at the bad times. I recently realised that it might go back to a deep faith I have that everything will be alright at the end, so nothing seems bad enough cause I know the bad times won't last.
I have been told that I bring sunshine with me everywhere I go and that I laugh with my soul. I feel like I do!
I come from Greece but I made England my home too and later Tanzania also became my home for a while. I left home when I was 17 to go study in the uk and ended up staying there for almost 7 years. In these 7 exciting and very filling years I did my Bachelors in Events Management BA at the University of Northampton and later I did my Masters in Responsible Tourism at Leeds Beckett University. After years of working in hospitality I was lucky enough to find my passion in responsible tourism which I ended up doing my masters in. I later returned back to Athens for approximately a year and then left to gain work and life experiences in Tanzania. I stayed in Tanzania for a year and a half and did four workaways all linked to tourism. The first one was focused on the social media management of a local tour operator mother, the second was focused at the social media management/content creation and general management of a beautiful eco lodge in Zanzibar, the third was a position at one of the biggest hostels in Arusha in which I focused at the hostels’/safari company’s itineraries and the content creation of the business and my last workaway was at Umoja Maono ngo in which I took over the volunteer experience and tourist product after I had been the manager of a construction site at the Maasai community in which they constructed the first Maasai community centre of east Africa.
I have gained a lot of academic and practical knowledge within responsible tourism and business management and I am ready to continue gaining knowledge back home. I now know that I can succeed even in challenging situations with a huge warm smile and humour and at the end of the day even when life gets serious it’ll be ok.
I am so great in understanding others and communicating with people of any background, regardless of any language barriers and mindset differences. I love communication, a lot of times, regardless of the mindset similarities. And I think that’s my greatest skill.

Interests

Van life

Videography

Politics / Social justice

Photography

Carpentry

Astronomy

Architecture

Music

Languages

Writing

Self development

Sustainability

Plant care

Pets

Nature

Farming

Gardening

Events & social

DIY & crafts

Culture

Camping

Beach

Art & design

Animals

Languages spoken

Greek: Fluent
English: Fluent
French: Beginner
Swahili (Kiswahili): Beginner

Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn

I'm interested in:  

Art Projects

DIY and building projects

Life at a Farmstay

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Some knowledge of:  

Eco Projects

Gardening

Animal Care

Babysitting and creative play

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Able to teach about:  

Languages

Hospitality/Tourism

More details about your skills

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Age

28

What else ...

Music has been an important companion in my life. I started playing piano as a young kid but stopped when I went to study. I then decided to start singing lessons. I've changed three teachers so far and due to my constant moving I haven't been able to progress as much as I'd wish. In my recent years, together with my singing lessons, I became a student and member of a Brazilian drum band and while I was in Tanzania I was also a student/ member and manager of a local traditional band in which I was playing the bongos and the djembe. Funny enough, due to my deep belief in music's therapeutic abilities I was giving drum seminars to the kids of the ngo's pre school in Tanzania as part of creative learning. I was so pleasantly surprised to find out that drums are ideal for the social education of children. I noticed that the lessons helped so much with their focus, discipline, teamwork and creativity. It also connected me with them through something so deep as rhythm and creative play and the language didn't become a barrier.

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