Elena

Italy
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I am currently
Travelling
My next destination:
Morocco - from Nov 2025 until Dec 2025
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Hello everyone! I'm Elena and I'm from a small town in the north of Italy, near Venice. I'm 22 and I just finished a bachelor degree in Economics at the University of Bologna and I'm so so happy about it!! Economics wasn't something I liked much, and it was quite tough to get through it... But I made it and I'm finally done!!! So now it's time for me to find out what I truly like and to experience the world! I thus decided to take a gap year (or more, who knows) to take some time for myself and travel! I have already done a few experiences on Workaway and I think it's perfect for this!
Something about me to know me a little bit better: I'm an extrovert girl who loves talking and meeting new people, discovering more about them and their cultures (mostly their food traditions, as I'm very passionate about food and I love trying new dishes and tastes :). I'm a very active person and I love playing any kind of sport, but I also love spending time immersed in nature, walking around or reading a book. What I mostly enjoy is travelling tho, living fully the places I go to, experiencing them with the people who live there from which I can learn so much more than from a "tourist" experience. I would also describe myself as very open-minded and adaptable, always searching for new experiences to make and very willing to challenge myself with different lifestyles and traditions!
I really hope you’ll choose to host me and I’m sure we will enjoy our time together!
Interests
Gardening
Yoga / Wellness
Dancing
Van life
Performing arts
Hiking
Books
Beach
Art & design
Animals
Vegetarian or vegan
Team sports
Sustainability
Self development
Plant care
Photography
Pets
Outdoor activities
Nature
Music
Movies & TV
Mountain
Languages
LGBTQ
Events & social
Culture
Camping
Charity work
Cooking & food
Adventure sports
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Spanish: Beginner
Portuguese: Beginner
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Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn
I'm interested in:
Eco Projects
Charity Work
Gardening
Animal Care
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Hospitality/Tourism
Art Projects
Some knowledge of:
Languages
Babysitting and creative play
Able to teach about:
Helping around the house
Teaching
More details about your skills
One of the abilities that really characterizes me is that of being indipendent and extremely organized. Since I’m very precise, I pay attention to details when organizing myself and what I need to do. That is certainly helpful when people give me tasks as I generally prepare schedules and finish the work on time. I’m also quite good at working with children and entertaining them with games and activities. I developed this skill last summer, when I worked for 2 months in a summer camp and I was in charge of organizing activities for children from 4 to 8 years old and entertaining them, but also being responsible for their safety. Through this experience, I’ve also acquired the ability to cooperate with people and communicate with them in an effective way. The job I had also involved the actual creation of new activities that could amuse 50 children. This has certainly stimulated my creativity!
One skill I have (or at least I like to think I have) is that of cooking. I really enjoy cooking and making new dishes (mostly vegetarian) for myself and others, but to be honest I’m not that good, which is crazy as I’m Italian!
Age
22
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- Smoker
- Driver's licence
- Allergies
  no
- Special dietary requirements
  It's not a requirement, but I tend to eat more vegetarian or vegan food

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6 Dec 2025

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My experience in Harim's English school was not super good, and a little bit different from what I expected and how it seems from the profile. Probably this is because I was staying in the school in Casablanca that is not in downtown, but it's quite far from the city center (almost 1 hour by public transport to get to the big mosque and the sea).… read more For me being there was quite difficult because it seemed a bit far from everything (especially nature and the sea) and I felt a little bit stuck there, but most of the people were enjoying it anyways, so maybe it's only me.

Anyways, I was supposed to stay there for one month but I only stayed a week. I think that on the profile it's not so clear the distinction between the three schools, and I feel like people live very different experiences depending on the school they go to, which is assigned a few days before your arrival and doesn't really depend on your choice. Fortunately, if possible, Harim allows volunteers to chance school if they want to.

A negative aspect of the school I was in, for example, is that there's not a washing machine, and we had to wash our stuff in a bucket with water (which is different from what the profile says and quite uncomfortable for me). Also, toilet paper is not included (which is fine since it's written in the profile), but also other essentials are not provided, like soap for washing dishes and detergent for clothes. Sometimes the pans for cooking were gone, making it quite hard to cook for ourselves. Apart from these things, the accommodation was quite nice, with two big rooms with 5 beds each, a kitchen and 3 toilets, and in the same building of the school, so very convenient for us.

The job consisted in a few hours of small conversations (20/30 minutes each) with students to help them learn English. The ones I did were mainly for beginners, so most of the time the conversations were very basics and repetitive. I was hoping I could learn a bit more from the students actually, but most times it was hard to make conversations about "complex" topics because of their English level (which is completely fine, it was different from what I was hoping for). The "lessons" are from Wednesday afternoon to Sunday morning, so there's a lot of free time for travelling around Morocco and I think Casablanca has a strategic position to easily go to different places (I came from Rabat by train and left to Marrakech by train, it was super easy and quite cheap).

Harim was super quick in answering and available for questions or information, but I only saw him once in the school and we never really spoke, so I had a little bit the feeling that he was not extremely interested in knowing the volunteers but we were mainly there for helping in the school. This is fine of course, but different from what I look for in my volunteering experiences and what I experienced before in other places on Workaway (totally personal and different for everyone though).

What I enjoyed the most in my short experience here was the people that I met . They were all super nice and interesting, and we spent a lot of time together chatting and sharing ideas and our experiences, which was really cool!

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22 Mar 2024

Left by host for Workawayer ()

Elena spreads her positive energy everywhere; she is interested in other people and contributes to the community. She is intelligent and learns quickly. She took on a significant responsibility to make it flourish. I wholeheartedly recommend her and look forward to the next place fortunate enough to have her as a workawayer. I hold her in high… read more

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20 Mar 2024

Left by Workawayer () for host (Help us turn our farm into a ...)

This was my first Workaway experience and Dorte was fantastic at making it amazing! She is a kind, caring and also funny woman and I'm so happy I had the chance to know her and live in her beautiful farm with her! The place is peaceful, in the middle of a a quite and beautiful island that I could visit together with Dorte and on my own (doing a… read more

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