Danielle

From: France

Account Type
Individual account
Travelling to
Japan
Travel dates
01/10/2019 - 19/09/2020
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My status
Travelling
Description
Hello!

My name is Danielle. I have a working holiday visa to stay a year in Japan and I arrived at the end of September 2019.

As I was interested by Japan when I was younger, I decided to come enjoy maybe my last working holiday visa. My goal is to improve my Japanese, discover the Japanese way of life and the culture by traveling from the north to the south and doing some volunteers and/or work in different places.

As I would like to travel all over Japan, but not in a quick way, I wish I could find some 1-2 months volunteers/jobs at least and who knows maybe more if it helps the host and I really like the environment.

I used to live in a few countries where I worked and/or studied; the majority of my life in France, 7 months in England, 6 months in Hungary, 5 months in Spain, a year in Argentina with the working holiday visa. I visited some other countries in Europe (Belgium, Germany, Netherland, Serbia, Slovenia, Austria) and South America (Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Chile). So that's the reason why I speak fluently English and Spanish.

I'm an easy-going person to live in community, people say that I have always the smile and I have a bubbly personality.

In jobs, I can be very dedicated, I like to discover and learn new tasks and get to know new environments.
I'm looking forward to meet you.

Have a good day!
Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn
I'm interested in:
DIY and building projects
General Maintenance
Life at a Farmstay
Eco Projects
Some knowledge of:
Gardening
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Helping around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
Language practice
More details about your skills
My working experience is mostly in catering and event sectors. Here is a non exhaustive list of my working skills:

- Preparing and resupplying the breakfast buffet.
- Welcoming customers.
- Setting and clearing the tables.
- Serving customers.
- Doing the washing up.
- Cleaning up areas.
- Folding, washing, counting linens and taking from each floor.
- Verifying mini-bars in every rooms of hotels.
- Carrying out and in stock control.
- Assisting customers in the selection and purchase of items.
- Handling customers’ complaints in a professional and diplomatic way.
- Setting up promotional events and displays.
- Promoting the shop and its products at every opportunity.
- Highlighting special promotions to customers.
- Giving expert advice to customers regarding products.
- Doing additional sales.
- Promoting companies, products, services and events.
- Standing up with the smile telling the catchphrase.
- Talking clearly with the adapted voice in a crowd.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: Fluent
Japanese: Intermediate
Age
30
Nationality
French
What else ...
I'm open-minded and I love to eat, my favorite thing is meat, but I eat everything so I adapt myself easily if they are only vegetarian food.
I love sports and I'd like to discover more about the ones from the mountains. As I'm from the city full of concrete, I had not so much the opportunity to practice them (once in snowboard and once in mountainboard).
Some more information
- Smoker
- Driver's licence
- Allergies
- Special dietary requirements

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Feedback

25/07/2020

Left by Workawayer (Danielle) for host for (Looking for extra help with ...)

My feedback come veryyyyy late but it's one of my best volunteer I had in general, and the best I had in Japan (I got 3 in Japan.)
It's a place I felt home, where people really care about us.

About the work as volunteer, it was about washing the dishes, and drying it up, then cleaning the pension (booked rooms and cottage, baths and toilets,… read more etc..). And as worker, we also helped in setting tables, helping for the breakfast and the dinner preparations, selling some ski passes and welcoming customers.
And we had a month where the pension was closed, so the work was focus on maintenance (racking leaves on the tennis court, painting the pension and super house, removing the veranda and so on ...)

About, the life there, IT WAS GREAT!!!!!! We had time for us while our break, we could enjoy the surrounding with the bikes. If we needed to go somewhere or shops, they were always someboby to drive us. When we didn't have a lot of customers Masa always had some good ideas, visiting somewhere, parting in Otaru, in Sapporo, the pension, and meeting his wonderful friends, going to the karaoke, doing some yoga (fake beginner level AHAHAHA Come on they were TOO flexible to be beginner !!!), talking about life, listening Ricky Martin ahahhahaha and many things I'm forgetting to say!
It was really nice to live with him, Gurung san, Ram san, Niru, they are all EXCELLENT! Guys you have too many qualities! Work-hard, patient, funny, understanding, artists, strong, And I like his parents. Fumi san, I could practice a bit my poor Japanese with her (also with Ram san) she was always nice, cook us some delicious foods and even the rare moment she was angry, she was cute for me (okay, it's because I could not understand anything and it wasn't against me AHAHAHA). And Owner san, NOBODY CAN FORGET HIM ahahaha, we stayed a month with him when the pension was closed and Masa was traveling. There is NO personality like Owner san in Europe, so it can be a little shock at the start but when we get to know him, we can see that he is a person that like his pension, his family, and people in general, he liked to know about us, our differents cultures and making us discover more about the japanese culture and food.

And about the FOOD ... THAT WAS SO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD !!! Ram san was always there to feed us more and as my belly doesn't have end, I was in heaven.

To sum up, I felt very thankful to start my experience in Japan there, and definitely, I want to come back to see them before the end of my visa and even after in many years. Of course, I really want to go, more than before, to Nepal because of Niru, Gurung san and Ram san. Beautiful mix with Japanese and Nepalese culture!

Thanks a lot guys!

(Excellent )

19/07/2020

Left by Workawayer (Danielle) for host for (Come and help me with guests ...)

I really had a nice stay there.

The place is around the nature so if you're running away from big cities, want to pick up some fruits, fishing, swimming in the beach, hiking .. etc, it's your place to be.

About the work, it's exactly as it's written on the description. Focus on cleaning and preparing glampings, cottages and onsens when we had… read more customers and when it was closed because of the covid we worked more in the maintenance, there are always some work to be done. I've been part of the lucky ones who worked sometimes at the farm and I LOVED IT because I could practice my japanese and I met wonderful person (I miss Megumi and Asai!!!!).

About the life, I've met great people, volunteers, hosts (Marcelo and Yoji), owner, workers, Marcelo's friends, all different, interesting and funny. Nice events with Marcelo like birthdays, Brazilian lunch (Valeeu Silvana and Auber) and pizza parties (I miss this fabulous oven ahahaha), and also without Marcelo (sorryyy ahaha but it's alright Elsa always thought about keeping you some pieces of cakes) when we (euh I mean Mami ahaha ... Who lied, she is not shy !!) organised intercultural dinners between volunteers.

About transport, we had a old/broken k-truck, 2 places, for a driver and a passenger but at least it worked to do some shopping, so I don't complain at all and people who had driving license could enjoy a lot! We were doing a rotation between the volunteers for the gasoline bill while my stay. (It may be different rules for the future volunteers if the k-truck is still alive)

I'm sure I'm forgetting lot of stuffs but to sum up, FOR ME, it was a great place where I stayed a bit more than 2 months were I had loads of nice moments with everybody.

Marcelo is a great person, he likes to help people when he can, he does his maximum in order we enjoy our stay but also he works hard and don't live with us, so sometimes we didn't see him that much, so for the future volunteers, don't hesitate about finding him and communicating or expressing if there is something wrong or not to avoid any misunderstandings.

Muito obrigada, foi um placer encontrar a voce!! (Esteu fazendo meu improvisação francoportuñol kkkkk)

Ps: Thank you coronavirus, because of you I was in kind of quarantine when I arrived, and I had my "Castle" (my little cottage) for a big part of my stay, that was reaaally apreciable!!! I think next time, I will come as a customer when I'll get my driving license ahaha

(Excellent )

19/06/2020

Left by host (Come and help me with guests ...) for Workawayer (Danielle)

My Gosh WHAT A POWERFUL person!!!!!
Very positive thinking she will express all her ideas and cheers p your place with sooooo much good vibes.
Highly recommended!!!!
She has no fear to do any job in any circumstances.
Dani helped us from setting up tents and cottages to maintain our camp site and hundreds of other things.

Merci Beaucoup Dani… read more

(Excellent )

05/11/2014

Left by host for Workawayer (Danielle)

Danielle has a great personality!! She was great dealing with our guests. She is very hard working, efficient, reliable, professional, intelligent, moves quick , fast learner. She likes meeting people and always was in a very good mood that came through her big smile! I would highly recommend Danielle. Thanks Danielle it was very nice to have had… read more

(Excellent )

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