Hippolyte & Kënza

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Description

Hippolyte: I'm a 23 years old French male and just finished my mechanical engineering studies. I'm now looking forward to learn in another way than the academic one.
During my studies, I was able to live abroad for a total of 1 year, divided into a 6 month ERASMUS and a 6 month internship, both at Rome. Those experiences made me fluent in English, and intermediate in Italian.
I see traveling as a way to learn new langages while finding yourself thanks to others. I will love to dedicate the next year to improving my photograph skills, while meeting passionate photograph abroad, making form this skill a professional tool.
I also see the following year as a way to mature a professional project, since I'm not sure to become an engineer anymore.

Kënza: My name is Kënza, and I'm a 26-year-old French woman driven by two passions: travel and learning languages.
For the past seven years, I have traveled with one goal in mind: to immerse myself in languages and cultures, and to understand how people connect and live. That curiosity has taken me far. I learned English as an au pair in London, Brazilian Portuguese through Workaway stays in Florianópolis and Rio de Janeiro, Spanish during a Workaway in Uruguay and travels across Argentina, Italian through an Erasmus exchange that turned into almost three years of life in Roma, and a little bit of Norwegian (one of my 2027 goal is to speak it fluently) during a Workaway as a gardener in a village near Oslo. Each language came with a community that I keep close to me in my everyday life.
Professionally, I worked for the Accor Group as a Front Desk Receptionist in Paris and as a Sales Coordinator in Rome. Welcoming guests and making them feel at home is work I find genuinely fulfilling. I am proficient in Opera and bring to every front desk interaction the same enthusiasm that has carried me across continents.
I am also a cinema graduate with an active creative life. I have self-published eight novels in French, written and directed a theater play in Italian, premiered in Rome, and am currently working on academic articles in contemporary art and developing a film script in French.
This year, I hope to deepen my expertise in hospitality, learn one or two new languages, and continue growing as an artist.

Interests

Sustainability

Hitchhiking

Videography

Politics / Social justice

Events & social

Culture

Vegetarian or vegan

Movies & TV

Music

Books

Art & design

Cooking & food

Languages

Photography

Writing

Performing arts

Animals

Outdoor activities

Hiking

Adventure sports

Beach

Water sports

Cycling

Languages

Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Portuguese: Intermediate
Arabic: Beginner
Norwegian: Beginner

More details about my language interests
Kënza: I am a polyglot, I speak fluently French (native), English, Spanish (Argentina), Italian and used to be fluent Portuguese (Brasil) - I would need some days to get back to my level in Portugal! My goal for the coming year is to have a B2 level in both Norwegian and Algerian Arabic! Hippolyte: I speak fluently French and English, and have an intermediate level in Italian. I would love to learn more latin langages, as Portuguese and Spanish

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Skills and knowledge we'd like to share or learn

We're interested in:  

Hospitality/Tourism

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Some knowledge of:  

House & pet sitting

Helping with Computers/ Internet

Light maintenance

Creative DIY projects

Being an elderly companion

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Able to teach about:  

Creating/ Cooking family meals

Babysitting and creative play

Teaching

Languages

Art Projects

More details about your skills

Hippolyte: I can communicate in French, English and Italian. I travel with professional photographer gears.

Kënza: My most valuable skills are language learning and multilingual communication across six languages, including professional writing in English, French, and Italian. With front desk and sales coordination experience within the Accor Group, and proficiency in Opera and Lodgify, hospitality is a field I know well. Creative writing and cooking are another core strength.

Age

23 & 26

What else ...

We would love to have a private bedroom instead of a dormitory

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  Special dietary requirements
  Kënza: I drink vegetal milk