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Profile information
Travel information
I am currently
At home
Description
I love to be outdoors enjoying nature and am quite physically robust, so can cope with adverse weather and also manual labour.
I am concerned about human impact on the environment and try to minimise my own footprint. I often pick up other people's litter too!
I like to be tired at the end of the day for the right reasons ie feeling that I have exerted myself physically and mentally. The latter would certainly be the case after striving to communicate in a foreign language; I've done this before in Germany. I also enjoy walking, running, cycling and swimming, all of these preferably with like-minded friends.
Interests
Sustainability
Outdoor activities
Nature
Mountain
Languages
History
Hiking
Gardening
Fitness
Cycling
Culture
Camping
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
German: Intermediate
French: IntermediateMore details about my language interests
Happy to assist any age group in acquiring English. However, the purpose of my visit is to overcome my difficulties with spoken French and I hope to find a kind and patient host who can help me gain some fluency.It is some years since I spoke German but I can probably still recall it.
Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn
I'm interested in:
Gardening
Babysitting and creative play
Being an elderly companion
Life at a Farmstay
Eco Projects
Animal Care
Charity Work
Teaching
Some knowledge of:
Helping around the house
Languages
More details about your skills
I am a mother of three adult sons, all happily settled in their careers. I was previously a Registered General Nurse. I have a degree in German and I have recently been trying to improve my conversational French, developing on earlier studies. My overseas experience is as follows: I have worked as an au-pair in Germany and as a bi-lingual office assistant, as a chalet girl in an Austrian ski resort and as a community health nurse in a refugee camp in the former Zaire after the 1995 genocide.
My skills encompass all the usual activities of bringing up three children, house-keeping, cooking, driving, teaching, vegetable gardening etc.
Age
66
What else ...
I like cycling, so would like to bring a bike if possible.
Some more information
Smoker
Driver's licence
Allergies
Special dietary requirements
