Alexis

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Après plus de 3 ans de voyage en Amérique latine Canada, Asie et Océanie, je cherche à échanger sur mes et vos expériences. J'ai fait pas mal de volontariats, et bossé au Canada et en Australie
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Turkey - from Sep 2025 until Oct 2025
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I am Alexis a French traveler. I got a Master degree in Business Administration (project manager), while I was studying I went for an Erasmus exchange in Austria. There I learnt English and I realized that I loved traveling, so after I graduated I decided to travel for 7 months in South America in 2019. Why ? To prove myself I could do it and to learn Spanish. Once I got there I discovered completely different cultures and I was amazed about it, my life completely changed at that time.
Then I came back to the "real life" for almost 2 years working for a big company on a project related with my education, meanwhile COVID popped up and I really felt like I was in the wrong place, asking myself if I really wanted to get this life, sitting behind an office all along the day and working hard to fulfill the dream of other people.
So I decided to quit my job and I went 2 years in Central America and south Asia from 2021 to 2023. I got my first level of reiki in Mexico and I really discovered yoga in India, I try to make my life more meaningful and healthy (that's not easy everyday), trying to find answers about this world and how I could change it (understanding that the best thing i can do for the world is to be the best "version of myself") to make it a better place.
I spent the last year in Australia with a Working Holiday Visa, there, I worked in a piggery, in coton farming and in solar farming.
My project, back in my country is to start my own biological farm and try to be as much as self sufficient based on a permaculture system. I have already a farm with my family (about 60 ha) that I want to turn into biological to provide healthy food for the people, in addition, I would like to teach people about permaculture on all its aspects and many other things as yoga, reiki,... But yeah that's a project at the moment.
Interests
Sailing / Boating
Plant care
Sustainability
Team sports
Outdoor activities
Nature
Culture
Hiking
History
Hitchhiking
Water sports
Yoga / Wellness
Languages
Gardening
Farming
Cycling
Cooking & food
Charity work
Carpentry
Camping
Books
Astronomy
Animals
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: Fluent
German: Beginner
Portuguese: Beginner
Russian: Beginner
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Hi, I speak fluently French, Spanish and English and I would like to practice those languages, I also know basic Russian and German and open to learn more. Feel free to contact me
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I'm interested in:
Eco Projects
Charity Work
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Life at a Farmstay
Animal Care
Babysitting and creative play
Helping around the house
General Maintenance
Some knowledge of:
Languages
Teaching
Helping with Computers/ Internet
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I traveled 7 months in South America and 2 years between Central, North America and south Asia. I already volunteered in projects in different parts of the world :
- one month in an animal rescue center in the Amazonian forest in Ecuador,
- one month in an organic farm in Mexico,
- one month in a trout farm in Mexico,
- three weeks in a camping in Mexico,
- two weeks in an organic farm in Guatemala,
- two weeks in an organic farm in Nicaragua,
- one month in an organic farm in Thailand,
- one month in two organic farms in India.
I know about gardening, farming, a bit of construction, I speak fluently 3 languages (French, Spanish and English) and I get a master degree in Business Management.
I am traveling around the world volunteering in different projects to learn more about mostly gardening and farming because I would like to have my own farm back in France, I grow my own vegetables and try to reach auto-sufficiency in many aspect (food, energy,...). I am really interested about discovering new cultures, so other way of thinking, different food, tradition,...
I am keen to work up to 8 hours a day 6 days a week if the project is interesting.
Age
31
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10 Dec 2024

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First of all I would like to thank Tasya and Afif for this amazing experience. Words won't be able to describe what I feel and what I experienced there but let's try.
I am volunteering for 4 years now, all around the world, looking for places and people that want to make this world a better place to live and I found them in here.
You will get a… read more bunch of different tasks to do, learning about many aspects of the permaculture (fertilizer, compost, pesticide, pruning, replanting, permaculture beds, and so on...). They also created an amazing cycle to turn organic waste from the city into compost and food for the chicken via maggot farming, really interesting to see. I was very lucky when I was there I could assist to a PDC, during this course I met local people sharing the same desire : make this world a better place.
Tasya and Afif built their community based on permaculture with the Islam vision making it really interesting how we can "mix" those 2 approaches to build such a lovely place. I am not Muslim but I felt more than welcome, I asked them many questions about religion and we got such interesting conversations. You really have to consider that they are all really open minded.
The community includes many people around Bandung, if you are lucky enough you will be able to meet some of them, they are all doing permaculture and they come back sometimes to help, they are lovely people. You will, hopefully, be able to meet Tasya's parents who are just incredible, I strongly recommend you to talk with them, they have a lot to share and you will learn a lot. Tasya and Afif have such a big background in Permaculture, they are open minded and they will make you feel like home in their place. The last part of the community includes volonteers, I don't know if I was just "super lucky" but I had the chance to meet lovely people there, they cooked local food for me, shared their knowledge about many aspects (permaculture, spirituality,...), we hanged out together sometimes and we had a lot of fun. Most of them are in a long-term journey so you can really feel they are use to live in community and make the place even better, they live in Harmony and I really loved that.
I will always remember the delicious food, the time spent flipping the compost, the work in bamboo land, the lovely people, the peaceful and amazing frame I stayed in for a month with the lake view.
I strongly recommend this place if you are eager to learn about permaculture having a local experience, meet incredible people and have a wonderful spiritual journey.
Thank you again for everything, I hope you will keep doing this amazing work for the people and the planet, hope I will see you in France one day (Inch Allah)
Hati Hati, Love from France.

Alex Syukron Terang Bulan

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