Sofia

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I am currently

Activities i am interested in:

At the in the Netherlands 🍀I'm available from June throughout the whole summer and autumn, message me if you feel like we would be a great match 😊

Description

Hey lovely You! 🍀

I'm a creative adventurer soul who cares deeply, laughs a lot, loves to help and learn new skills, and connect with all living 😊

I enjoy lots of different things and get easily excited!
I love nature, all kinds of animals, talking about everything, especially deeper philosophical and psychological things, dancing and music, different activities, exploring...
Supporting others brings my heart joy ❣️

I like cooking (and eating) delicious foods, being creative and finding solutions, creating beautiful environments, garden and house works, understanding more about everything and everyone 😊

I'm here to help and connect with like-minded souls, share both (and all) ways, inspire and be inspired, learn new skills and cultures, and experience adventures together! 😊

Interests

Pets

Videography

Sustainability

Yoga / Wellness

Van life

Mountain

Politics / Social justice

Writing

Self development

Plant care

Photography

Performing arts

Outdoor activities

Nature

Music

History

Hiking

Gardening

Farming

Events & social

Cycling

Dancing

DIY & crafts

Culture

Charity work

Cooking & food

Camping

Beach

Animals

Adventure sports

Languages

Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Finnish: Fluent
Dutch: Intermediate
Spanish: Beginner
Swedish: Beginner

More details about my language interests
Interested to learn new languages and also teach what I know if you're interested 😊

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Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn

I'm interested in:  

Charity Work

Art Projects

Eco Projects

Life at a Farmstay

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Some knowledge of:  

Languages

Being an elderly companion

Teaching

Gardening

DIY and building projects

Animal Care

Babysitting and creative play

Creating/ Cooking family meals

Helping around the house

Hospitality/Tourism

General Maintenance

Helping with Computers/ Internet

More details about your skills

Basic skills:

🍀 Good at creating a connection with:
- All kinds of people from all ages and backgrounds
- Animals (also rescue, most experience with dogs and cats, some with horses)

- Great at cooking (both meat and vegetarian food), cleaning, organising and gardening

- Good and open communication, great emotional skills, lots of empathy and understanding, supporting and encouraging others!

- Creative problem solver, smart, fast learner

🚗 Driver's license - 10 years of experience (Finland, the Netherlands, Spain, roadtrip through Germany and Switzerland). Clean record, confident and calm driver, both manual and automatic.

Languages:
- Fluent in Finnish and English
- Very good understanding ok talking Dutch
> As a result I understand lots of Flemish, Afrikaans and some German
- Some (30-40%) understanding in Spanish and a bit of understanding in Swedish (learnt both more in the past so these are easy to "recover")
- Very fast in learning languages! (Learnt dutch in a couple of years without lessons/much effort)


Work experience and education:

Most work experience (and an university of applied sciences degree; Bachelor of Business Administration, specialized in sales management) from sales, marketing and customer service (both B2B and B2C). Being a part in and also managing projects about developing sales and marketing.

Some work experience in:

- Workaway experience 1.5months in a street cat rescue center in south Spain, caring for cats and kittens (also giving medication)
- Volunteering in a cat village (kattendorp) in the Netherlands; a sanctuary for ~ 200 rescue cats
- Personal assistant for people with long term illness
- Production of light decorations; installing lights, simple installing of electronic wires (timers) simple cutting and grinding of aluminium, developing ideas for products, storage organising
- Bartending
- Being a part of running a start-up business (doing all kinds of things)

I also have a degree for being an overseas tour guide, and I love to guide tours!
I got other experience from guiding groups; managing many projects during my studies and some in previous jobs.

High school degree
Hygiene proficiency certificate (for working with food)


Personal experience:

Long experience and deep understanding about:
- The impact and healing of different traumas and depression (familiar with art therapy, also guided it successfully few times to others as well)
- Developing emotional skills (feeling, releasing and processing emotions, communication)

- Excellent in asking questions which help to find answers and solutions! These are great for finding self, creative solutions for everything, and creating new beliefs > better working ways of behaviour

Lots of traveling experience: Lived 3 years in the Netherlands, 2 months studying in Spain, 1.5 months workaway experience in Spain, 1 month Interrail through Europe, roadtrip from the Netherlands to Italy and back, have visited a lot of countries in Europe (love to see more!)

Experience with children from different ages, I like to have fun and connect with children, also making sure they are well cared for comes naturally for me.

Some experience in DIY projects like:
- Painting and wall-paper
- Helping with small renovations
- I love to learn new skills in creating things, also building and renovating!

Experience from functioning well and taking care of others in emergency situations (also abroad)

Experience from living in a rural area very simple conditions in the Finnish nature (heating with fire, sometimes no warm water, shower or a working toilet)

Experience from creating content for different purposes, I'm a good writer got a good visual eye for photos and videos (for ex. Marketing use), also experience from using an online program for building marketing materials.

I've danced my whole life (around 20 different styles) so I can also teach basics for some dances:

- Ballroom: Samba, cha cha, rumba, jive, waltz, tango, Viennese waltz, foxtrot, quickstep
(I've taught some for kids in the past and got a couple of short course certificates for that)
- Twerk
- Intuitive movement/dance

"Commercial" dance: Creating choreographs to different music styles and guiding learning these

I got a great sense of rhythm and I love to create music very creatively, using anything I can make a sound with, and I like a very wide range of different music genres!


I'm a "let's figure out and make it happen" kinda person, and love to try and learn new things!
You can always ask if you're wondering about something specific! And we will talk more 😊

Age

29

What else ...

I prefer peaceful nature, rural areas and small soulful villages over busy cities, even though sometimes it's nice to discover cities for a short time. I don't get drunk at all, alcohol isn't my thing in bigger amounts, but I do enjoy good tasting glass or 2 here and there (rarely). I don't judge other people for their choices of how they like to live 😊

I understand and appreciate everyone's:
- Freedom (to be express and choose, experience create the life they want)
- Needs and humanity: We are not machines, we are humans 🍀 This means we have all kinds of emotions, thoughts and needs that want to be expressed, understood and cared for 🫂
- Balance between social interactions and own time being active and resting


Happy to learn more from everyone and about everything in this beautiful life! 🌠😊

At the moment I have a part time remote job (sales and marketing) which takes some hours, but not much, in a week. This includes calling and video meetings and it can be done from anywhere and on the side of other work that might be needed at your place 😊 I only need working internet connection for it at your place 🙏

Some more information

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  Smoker

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  Driver's licence

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  Allergies
  Allergies have no impact on me

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  Special dietary requirements
  I love garlic 😍😂 you don't need to like it but I will eat garlic for sure