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I am currently
Travelling
Activities i am interested in:
Interested to connect 🙃
🟡 mindful chats, emotional themes, laugh
🔴 music and dance events
🟢 hikings
🟣 eatable wild plants
🟠 lakes, rivers, waterfalls
🔵 dump-diving
🟤 kinesiological tapingMy next destination:
Portugal - from Feb 2025 until Sep 2025 View all
Description
Hey!
My name is Anika. Welcome to my profile.
Here are some characteristics about myself that I like to contribute:
💠 mindful/attentive, careful & sensitive
💠 respectful, trustful, reliable & responsibly
💠 organized, foresighted & self-initiative
💠 different thinking, varied & individual
Even it's completely worthwhile, traveling is mainly challenging for me.
⚜️ I believe in experience as knowledge, in self responsibility, in individualism, diversity and complexity of man. ⚜️
I don't like dogmas - independent of the topic (religion, spirituality, food, health, environment, ...).
Regarding to interpersonal contact a mix of deep talks, mindful communication & a humorous, relaxed atmosphere is something I very appreciate.
I like authentic social contact. An environment where it's ok (or even better: normal) to speak about uncomfortable feelings and have space to feel them, is something which suits me best.
The way you will experience me depends on the respective situation. In new situations / with unknown people I am often a bit insecure & cautious til I get used to.
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Independent, natural, slow, simple, conscious & emotion-based lifestyles attract me.
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Usually I like quiet, slow & early mornings. During the day I often need quiete a lot ME-time just with myself in silence.
I like to do things with full attention, calm & precisely.
And if it feels harmonious inside and out, I also like it loud and expressive sometimes. Life is diverse, just like us.
Excited to meet you!
Anika 💃🏻
Interests
Van life
Camping
Mountain
Plant care
DIY & crafts
Charity work
Nature
Outdoor activities
Yoga / Wellness
Vegetarian or vegan
Water sports
Sustainability
LGBTQ
Adventure sports
Self development
Languages
Music
Hiking
Gardening
Fitness
Farming
Dancing
Cooking & food
Culture
Animals
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: FluentMore details about my language interests
Always happy to improve my English while traveling. I started with some Spanish. Obviously, I can help out with German. 😁
Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn
I'm interested in:
Languages
General Maintenance
House sitting
Some knowledge of:
Charity Work
Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Life at a Farmstay
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Helping around the house
More details about your skills
🔵 SOFT SKILLS: 🔵
🟦 profound experiences in dealing with one another in an appreciative and respectful manner (includes NVC)
🟦 deep experience in taking limits, needs and feelings of others (and my own) seriously and, if wished, to have a calm, mindful and honest exchange about them in a self responsible way
🟦 deep experience with unpleasant feelings, so usually able to support others who find themselves in emotionally difficult situations
🔵 My soft skills very depend on my level of feeling safe.
🔵 I always try to communicate as clearly and openly as I can in the situation. And I am learning constantly in contact with humans.
🟢 GARDENING & ANIMAL CARE: 🟡
🟩 more experience in growing vegetables
🟩 good amount of basic experience with general gardening and wild herbs/eatable plants
🟩 a bit of experience with permaculture
🟩 a bit of experience with (tropical) fruit trees/palms
🟢 I've got a huge interest to learn more about wild eatable plants, identify and get to know how to use them. The topic of tropical fruits also fascinated me.
🟨 good amount of basic experience in animal care with different species (but mostly dogs, cats and chickens 💛)
🟨 a bit of experience with milking cows and animalcare on a welfare farm
🟡 Animal care suits me 'cause my nature is very respectful, reliable, cautious and caring. This includes my natural ability to observe animals.
🟠 HELPING AROUND THE HOUSE: 🟠
🟧 much experience in cooking, baking & household
🟠 In the kitchen I like to experiment with new things. I am a clean person, so for me it's normal to tidy up, clean the kitchen after using and stuff like that.
🟠 I am interested in food preservation.
🟤 BUILDING & RENOVATING: ⚪
🟫 a bit experience with hand circular saw
🟫 a bit experience with eco-constructions with clay and straw and with stone, sand and lime (building walls)
🟤 I am very interested in eco-construction and would like to gain more basic understanding in the building topic in general.
⬜ basic experience in renovation - e.g. with painting walls, laying carpet, sanding, ...
🟤⚪ I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty, I'll just need detailed instructions on the most things and time to learn.
🟣 ART PROJECTS: 🟣
🟪 experience in creating a website with wordpress elementor
🟪 experience with designing flyers and posters
🟣 The probably more typical things like drawing, painting and crafting are not my skills.
⚫ ELSE: ⚫
⬛ experience in living off-grid & farm living
⬛ experience in chopping wood and a very tiny bit with a chainsaw
⬛ talent for organizing
⚫ I am learning constantly by staying with hosts.
Age
33
What else ...
I quit my safe job and my beautiful apartment to learn from life as a workawayer. So that I did start my journey through Europe at spring 2024 by car.
Some more information
Smoker
Driver's licence
Allergies
Special dietary requirements
I prefere vegetarian food.
Feedback
I stayed with another very nice volunteer at this place in separate caravans with lots of privacy. I enjoyed working together, sometimes with the 2 of us, but mostly also with Tamir. We built a chicken coop what was a big pleasure to me! Tamir took my interests into account… read more
She is easy to get along with, brings a great atmosphere,… read more
I experienced Oscar & Yvonne as caring, flexible & generous hosts. Even they have two little child's, they were always open for our need's, which was probably not always easy. I felt in love with Samu & Felix and it was hard for me to say goodbye.
Oscar is a practical type and he likes to create a funny… read more
Amanda and Kenny are welcoming people, sharing what they have, also their interesting life stories. Both have a great sense of humour and especially with Amanda you can perfectly learn how to swear, curse and insult in the English language. For me that was refreshing! 😄
Amanda is a… read more
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I stayed with another very nice volunteer at this place in separate caravans with lots of privacy. I enjoyed working together, sometimes with the 2 of us, but mostly also with Tamir. We built a chicken coop what was a big pleasure to me! Tamir took my interests into account… read more
She is easy to get along with, brings a great atmosphere,… read more
I experienced Oscar & Yvonne as caring, flexible & generous hosts. Even they have two little child's, they were always open for our need's, which was probably not always easy. I felt in love with Samu & Felix and it was hard for me to say goodbye.
Oscar is a practical type and he likes to create a funny… read more
Amanda and Kenny are welcoming people, sharing what they have, also their interesting life stories. Both have a great sense of humour and especially with Amanda you can perfectly learn how to swear, curse and insult in the English language. For me that was refreshing! 😄
Amanda is a… read more
It was such a great pleasure to meet Jamel! He is an attentive, calm, caring & flexible host, a tough, experienced, relaxed & warmhearted person with a sense of humour. I immediately felt comfortable and safe staying with him as a female solo-traveler. He respects privacy a lot. We had a nice balance… read more
She’s hard working.
She loves animals. She gives animals the space to come to her and because of her calmness and good energy they feel it safe.
Anika helped us with painting jobs and gardening, chickens and the dog. She sometimes… read more
From the start I felt very welcome. I was able to get to know almost the entire family in my first days (because it was Easter), which was a real enrichment. So many great people, all very open and interested. I felt like part of the family. - What a special experience.
In the whole time we laughed… read more
10 days at the farm with Fran - short but intense:
I helped out with rebuild an old stone house in a traditional ecological way. It was tough physically work and I learned a lot. The project really motivated me. It was so much pleasure and so challenging at the same time. Fran and me were working with the two of us in a fix routine,… read more
It is a rather atypical workaway without a fixed framework. Josh was very generous, relaxed, helpful, outgoing, funny & flexible most of the time. I slept in a caravan and overall felt very free and could follow my own rhythm. There were no routines and everything was agreed upon at short… read more
Here I worked a lot in the garden, pruned trees and ivy, pulled a bit of weeds, looked after the animals, gave them lots of love and painted an outside wall. The animals are very friendly and adorable. Jaqueline truly appreciated my work, what was a great feeling!
There is a lot of flexibility and also a… read more
In a certain way, I felt connected to Steph from the first contact. We had a little more contact before my stay, which I really liked. I very quickly felt at home here.
I found Steph to be generous, considerate, humorous, easy-going and intelligent. And above all, she has a big heart! She communicates honestly and openly,… read more
There is a serenity in her daily life, structured by the challenges she sets herself.
She has a true awareness of the environment which she explores with a love of life and its experiences....even challenging ones.
I think, and hope, she found the work here, with the birds and garden, fulfilling.… read more
I experienced K&É as hard-working people who still know how to enjoy life. You can go stealing horses with both of them (if you have enough energy 🤠). They have a great sense of humor and are very close to nature, which was inspiring for me. They are also extremely flexible in all areas.
I was invited everywhere… read more
With Anika you will have a volunteer who can: work really hard and precisely, has clear communication of what she wants and… read more
Hanna & Thibaut in particular make this place a unique, wonderful experience for me. They are a unique team, two fabulous individuals.
They are caring, connecting, helpful, open, flexible, loving, solution-oriented, respectful, always have an ear for needs or concerns, and are happy to share their wealth of knowledge, often with a… read more
Dass soviele verschiedene Tiere hier zusammen leben können, finde ich außergewöhnlich & einfach schön.
Ann-Kristin hat mir viel Vertrauen geschenkt und ist gut auf… read more
