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I am currently
Travelling
My next destination:
Indonesia - from Jan 2025 until Jan 2025 View all
Description
* I am fully vaccinated against Covid-19 (3 doses)
** Please, read my entire profile before sending me a message!
I'm a vegetarian teacher from Brazil, who started to travel around the world in March of 2017. My plan is to travel around the world for 10 years in total, non-stop, and to visit at least 100 countries. Until now I have been to England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Ireland, Spain, Catalonia, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Malta, Italy,Vatican, Switzerland, Austria, Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Albania, Serbia, France, Monaco, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Netherlands, Belgium, Hungary, Greece, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, India, Nepal, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Malaysia. I try to stay from two weeks to one month in each country so I can really feel how everything works, to meet people, to know and to learn the culture.
When I started my travels, I chose to live and to travel almost without money, just hitchhiking, camping in the wild and doing volunteer work.
I haven’t had a mobile phone from 2014 to 2024.
I really want to get to know more about the countries I visit. I want to get to know deeper about their culture and that's why living with local families is so important for me.
I have a teaching degree for English and Portuguese, plus both Literature.
On my free time, I like to spend some time on my own. I love to watch movies, to read, to write (I am writing a book and a blog about my travels). I love nature, peaceful and remote places in the countryside, so going hiking is my favorite outside activity and I enjoy doing that daily.
Work wise, I am interested in many different things, as I love to always learn something new. But mostly:
- permaculture
- farm work
- building / construction work
- diy
- decoration
- restoration
- animal care
- gardening
I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy so I'm a very optimistic person, who try to laugh as much as possible and always try to see the best side of everything, always trying to learn something from every situation.
Interests
Plant care
Writing
Photography
Movies & TV
History
Hiking
Drawing & painting
Cooking & food
Art & design
Gardening
Mountain
Pets
Languages
DIY & crafts
Camping
Architecture
Animals
Books
Outdoor activities
Vegetarian or vegan
Nature
Hitchhiking
Farming
Culture
Blogging
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Portuguese: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
French: BeginnerMore details about my language interests
This workawayer has indicated that they would be interested in sharing their language(s) or learning a new language. You can contact them directly to discuss this.
Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn
I'm interested in:
Life at a Farmstay
Eco Projects
Art Projects
Some knowledge of:
Gardening
DIY and building projects
General Maintenance
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Hospitality/Tourism
Charity Work
Helping with Computers/ Internet
Able to teach about:
Helping around the house
Animal Care
Languages
Teaching
More details about your skills
- DIY (mainly art projects and decoration)
- Teaching languages (English and Portuguese fluently, and some Spanish)
- Vegetarian cooking
- I am good at learning new skills fast =)
- I have worked in many building projects
- Painting
Age
34
What else ...
Important Note 1.: Through the pass of the years using Workaway, I had some wonderful hosts. But sometimes I've met people, who according to what I believe, don’t follow or don’t understand the meaning of Workaway. Apart of the exchange of culture and exchange of help, it’s also an exchange of mutual respect and consideration. Unfortunately in some houses, I was treated just as someone who came to work or as a maid. So to avoid that again, I would like to let it clear that if we are sharing the house, I will be more than glad to help you with the cleaning of common areas, dishes and cooking, apart of my Workaway jobs. But I cannot hold full responsibility for this duties or to wash the car, for example. Workaway is also an opportunity to learn something new, some new jobs and discovering new abilities and that is what I am looking for.
Important Note 2.: Because I travel a lot, before and after getting to my volunteer works (usually I travel everyday from one place or one town to another), I really prefer to relax and settle down during my volunteer work, so I can have some rest time and take care of my personal life (writing on my blog, organizing my photos, planing my next travels, answering emails, etc.). So mostly during my days off I remain at home, and don't go exploring the country I am visiting, because I will do that later, for a whole week, after I finish my volunteer work. But I am very independent and I can take care of myself if my hosts decide to, or have to be away during the weekends or my days off.
Important Note 3.: Please keep your word regarding the types of work I will be doing and hours of work per day. We agree with that during our messages so for me it is crucial that we keep up with that plan. I spend a lot of hours and energy looking into host profiles, finding families and places where I would like to come to do that specific kind of work. If there are different tasks, that's another thing. But when I come to a place and everything is changed, I feel like a fool and it is very disrespectful.
Importante Note 4.: Even though I have worked as Aupair many times before, I now don't do that anymore. Either babysitting. So please don't ask me to come as a volunteer but actually expecting me to look after children from time to time. If that is what you expect of your volunteers, you should be very clear about that in your profile and in our messages.
Important Note 5.: Please be completely HONEST about everything and anything I need to know about your place. Anything particularly unusual like: - family members with special care needed, - no heaters during the winter time, - outside compost toilet, etc. It is unfair to keep the volunteers in the dark about some facts, just expecting them to adapt themselves to it when they arrive. As volunteers, we are already letting go of a lot of things that many people could never even consider, all in order to be part of something bigger and help others. Unfortunately some people see that as a free pass to treat us as they wish, believing that because we are volunteers we accept whatever it comes. That's is untrue and unfair. Let's keep a relation of mutual respect and love, like a big family, where everybody looks after each other.
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Driver's licence
Allergies
noSpecial dietary requirements
Vegetarian
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My students loved her so much after her leaving, I was asked many times why she isn’t coming to lesson:)
I really appreciate her help to my son about speaking skills which needed to improve. We spent brilliant time with her which was… read more
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She took an active part in our intercultural evenings and tirelessly shared her experience with us.
I was also much… read more
She helped me in the yard a whole lot working for hours with the trimmer like she’d never done anything else, and I am so grateful.
Besides that she cared for my pets the best way possible, and me with her excellent cooking skills. Lei even… read more
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I and my colleagues enjoyed talking and working with her, she has great experiences and life wisdom, which is a pleasure to learn about.
Lei is also very polite and observes all house rules. We became friends and are going to communicate in the future.
There are very few people like her in the world. I'm sure of it.
She is real. There is no lie in it.
Everything she does - she does with all herself. She is honest, does not complain, she has an internal order, she can be relied on, will not fail, keeps her word, she's… read more
Very open minded, tough working woman with a unique mindset in terms of travelling! She helped us preserve food, plant & care for our fruit and nut trees, harvesting edibles around the gardens and built a big shelf for the foods in the cellar.
It was a pleasure for us… read more
There are so many good… read more
Seriously, when it comes to people like Lei, no matter how much time you spend with them it's never enough...
Lei is a beautiful and charismatic person that we would always recommend...hardworking and very quickly she learn work with dogs in our… read more
Lei is a really interesting person. She has a lot of fantastic stories to tell and she is also a very good listener. You will never gets bored near her.
She is an always helpful and very independent in the kitchen also in the house. Her food is really perfectionist fine. Even in the garden, she gave us a huge valuables support in anyway she… read more
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She is hardworking, and always willing to see a project done once it is started. She helped us start a nursery bed, and till a… read more