Ekim Güney

Turkey
Login to see last activity

Badges (4)

Photos

View all

Give the gift of Workaway

Profile information

Travel information

I am currently

At home
Description

Hi there!

I am a master student from Milano, Italy. I have been part of various group projects and volunteering works before. What motivates me most is to get to know new people and places! As a workawayer I can offer my experience in group works and manual labor. What I expect in return is to be able to travel and work within a reasonable amount of budget.

In my free time I enjoy to cycle, play guitar, take photographs, do hikes or just hang out with friends. Even though I am not the best cook ever I enjoy cooking for people. During my stay I can offer to cook some Turkish or Italian food.
Interests

Music

Politics / Social justice

Self development

Team sports

Photography

Outdoor activities

Pets

Nature

Languages

Mountain

Gardening

Hiking

Fitness

Farming

Culture

Cycling

DIY & crafts

Drawing & painting

Animals

Camping

Books

Beach

Art & design

Adventure sports
Languages

Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Turkish: Fluent
Italian: Beginner

More details about my language interests
I am interested in learning Italian as I am planning to stay longer in Italy. In exchange I can do my best on teaching English or my native language.

Find a language partner
Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn

I'm interested in:

Light gardening

Life at a Farmstay

Hospitality/Tourism

Animal Care

Some knowledge of:

Light maintenance

Eco Projects

Art Projects

Helping with Computers/ Internet

Languages

Able to teach about:

Creative DIY projects
More details about your skills

As a product designer there are some skills I have developed natively during my studies such as softwares, hand tools and some soft skills like concept development and team working. I can say I am comfortable with most of the hand tools and woodworking. There are some computer programs I have been using for years like Keyshot, illustrator, photoshop, indesign, after effects, Rhinoceros3D and Blender. Other than that I take photography and I have done illustration projects before.

Other than my professional skills I have been to various group projects and volunteering works before. Here are some of the experiences I had;

2021-2022 Solar Decathlon
I have taken part in Solar Decathlon Competition and worked in a team over hundered people for a year and half. During this time I had a chance to gain insight about how to work in a team of people with different backgrounds, doing various graphic design works, I gained experience in giving presentations to large crowds and most importantly had a chance of working in a construction site for building a two storey home from scratch. I have used almost every sort of hand tool required to build a home during this period.

2017 SCI Germany, Hamburg, volunteering camp
In this camp I was a volunteer for three weeks in a hostel. As a volunteer I was responsible of organisational works as well as landscaping around the hotel.

2016 Legambiente Italy, Parco de Lavino, volunteering work
As a volunteer I was working with a group of other volunteers to clean and organise a national park located in the middle of Italy. It was my first experience as a volunteer.
Age

29
What else ...

I like to cycle, sometimes I do long cycling tours like several hundred kilometers. I am enthusiastic about learning photography and have a professional camera. I enjoy playing nylon acoustic guitar for years but need to practice more. I'd say it takes very little to make me feel content and I am someone easy to get along well.
Some more information
- Smoker
- Driver's licence
- Allergies
- Special dietary requirements

Website Safety

Feedback

19 Aug 2026

Left by host (Enjoyable local experience ...) for Workawayer ()

It was a real pleasure having him stay with us! From the beginning, everything went very smoothly. He is a genuinely nice, friendly, respectful and easy-going person and communication was always great. He was also very responsible and always completed all the duties and tasks that were expected of him. He was clean, tidy and respectful of the … read more

(Excellent )

19 Aug 2026

Left by Workawayer () for host (Enjoyable local experience ...)

I spent a week with Rio and it was a very positive experience. It was my first time staying with a dog for this long, Nazlı provided every detail before her departure and we had lots of fun with Rio! Nazlı was a great host and everything went well. Would definitely recommend for anyone who loves dogs!

(Excellent )

30 Mar 2026

Left by Workawayer () for host (Join me in a magical place ...)

I spent a month here in February, which was a good and an interesting experience altogether. For the next possible workawayers I feel a responsibility to write down my experience unfiltered because it seems like none of the previous workawayers wrote down what I had here.   Needless to say the nature here is amazing, had no idea Marche was such a … read more beautiful place. During my stay, they provided me my own room and three meals a day in a large building where everyone live together. If you love animals, especially dogs, this is the place. They have six beautiful cane corso breed dogs. Be careful, once they know you, they will viciously attack you for PETS, but also keep in mind that they are guard dogs and they really don’t like black clothing. In a month I helped people in various tasks. I did run errands and collect donated foods with Nadja and really enjoyed her companionship, made a few English classes with the children and it was refreshing to see their interest in topic, one can say they really are brilliant kids, I helped around in the kitchen and cooked meals with Ayça and Dino, attended in taichi classes from world masters, made pizza for the first time in my life with il Maestro and worked in the garden, helped around in carrying goods and packages around the farm, worked together with Alessia on feeding cows and horses. Also need to add, everyone helped me a lot with improving my Italian.

So why the two stars then? Well, a few aspects of my stay here was very interesting least to say. First of all, before coming here Ashanti and Rafaello have a long meeting with you and tell you anything you can potentially face here beforehand but nothing feels like living there. I thought they would be more friendly or “pace e bene” as they say but it was a different story. They have a lot of rules, I mean a lot. Most of them in my opinion are just there to make the life harder for everyone but I was a guest so, I tried to live in their manners as much as I can. If you slip and do something out of their set of rules, some of them sees it appropriate to give you an hour of lecture/scolding on how the world works based on rules and if you don’t obey it you should leave. To be specific, there is work here 7 days of week, 8 hours a day. One day I was 5 minutes late to my duty of washing dishes 8 in the morning and I took a warm shower after 3 days of not being able to take it. Which turned out to be a massive problem. You need to warm water over a wood stove or ask permission to have warm shower then someone to turns on the heating or not (switch is in your room btw). I was confronted in my room as if I committed a crime, even though I offered to compensate for my energy use and get back to work, instead they asked if I don’t live like them I need to pay 40eur for half a day of working/staying and 70 eur for no working or simply leave asap. Another problem is that you need to ask someone to give you food. I mean, food is there on the table, almost all of them are donated, you know because you carried them in the morning from eurospin, but someone comes to give you whatever you would like to have. I took a cookie out of a bag without thinking and it became an another massive problem. The same day I literally cooked for them, somehow the hygiene is not a problem when I cook Turkish dumplings or prepare salads but it becomes a problem when I touch a single cookie. Rules are rules and If you slip, they ask you to leave immediately, in the middle of the night. I think there were a few other things too but I think you get the feeling of it.

  I also write this review as a friendly suggestion to them, I think they are trying to make something good for everyone there but they don’t see workaway as a volunteering and cultural exchange opportunity. It appears like “work” in workaway is misleading for some of them. This is a platform mainly for cultural exchange, it is not for cheap labor and most of all, it is not for imposing illogical strict rules on people. It is fair to ask people to live like you but no need to turn a farm stay into a military compound. So, i give two for all the good people and things I had there but some of the things I faced here were kind of dehumanizing and uncalled for.   

After all thanks for the experience. Pace e bene, Ekim. :))

(Neutral )

View all