Hans

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Update for march 2024:

🎌2024年3月末に2週間ホームステイさせてくれる親切な日本人家族を探しています
お気軽にメッセージください。

I'm looking for a kind japanese family to hast me for two weeks at the end of march 2024.
Please feel free to message me :)

Hello, my name is Hans.

In summer 2019 I finished my apprenticeship as a pastry chef. While doing this it opened my eyes to the effects this business has on the health of humans, the planet and its recourses. I knew I didn't want to pursue a career or something like that so I decided to quit my job and go travelling to learn more about how this world works.
After having travelled for a while I found out that I prefer living in the countryside, but city from time to time is also fine.
On my travels I want to learn how to cover the basic human needs: growing food, building shelter, producing electricity and freshwater supply. That's why I am interested in Permaculture, traditional crafts and natural building/ bioconstruction.

I'm good at teamwork, handling tools, precision work, thinking outside the box, problem solving. I'm open minded and like to learn from other people and cultures how they think and their ways of doing things.

I really love the concept of workaways, i have been to 15 so far.

In my free time I like to learn new crafts, learn a new recipe or do a sewing project.
I know how to build flutes from pvc pipes and make jewellery from old copper wire.
Sometimes I have weird and interesting phases, in which I once sewed a medieval Hood with just a needle and string.

I love to play my guitar and write songs about my feelings and thoughts.
When I feel like it, I love to give and receive massages.
On the weekends I like going for walks and exploring the new environment that I'm in.

In the future I want to learn about pottery, sewing, sailing, beekeeping, making preserves, learing how to do thai massage and other things and projects i find interesting or useful.

I enjoy reading books on topics that interest me in this moment, I don't really like to read fiction or phantasy so don't judge me If I haven't seen Lord of the rings or haven't read Harry Potter.

My Motto:

"Be the change you want to see in the world."

This may sound cheesy, but nowadays it's more relevant than ever!

Interests

Languages

Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Intermediate
French: Beginner
Italian: Beginner

More details about my language interests
i would love to learn japannese and turkish, i can teach english and german

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Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn

I'm interested in:  

Life at a Farmstay

Animal Care

Charity Work

Languages

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Some knowledge of:  

Gardening

DIY and building projects

General Maintenance

Eco Projects

Helping around the house

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Able to teach about:  

Creating/ Cooking family meals

Art Projects

Helping with Computers/ Internet

More details about your skills

- making cakes and pastry
- Painting rooms
- Working in the field (harvest, cleaning, washing)
- I love to cook new dishes
- General work in the household (laundry, cleaning bathrooms, etc.)
- assisting in Tasks where help is needed
- Natural building knowledge (cordwood, cob, strawbale, light straw clay, rock foundation, plastering, roofing, bottle windows)
- Sewing Clothes and small things
- Filming and Editing Videos
- preserving food
- able to teach you guitar basics
- able to teach you how to make a simple flute from recycled materials
- Built a Cob Oven in February 2022

Age

26

What else ...

mostly (but not always) able to see and appreciate small gestures and things that happen around me. I look for a intimate connection in my sourroundings. whether enjoying helping someone in need or just hearing someone laugh. Reading a good book, listening to a good album that i just discovered. Getting a haircut by someones relatives and being able to enjoy those little moments.
i think its hard to feel joy from ordinary day to day occurances but I'm training myself to appreciate when i find out that i have another spoon of pudding or some other small happiness. having a roof over my head. having good company.
i try to stay humble

Some more information

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  Smoker

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  Driver's licence

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  Allergies

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  Special dietary requirements
  No dietary restrictions