Luciano & Beatrice

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*** I'm a solo traveler at the moment, Lucio is busy with a work project***

Hello everyone, I'm Bibi!

I'm really happy to be here, with the time and energy to dedicate to projects and communities working to make the planet a better place — before starting a new job path in January.


I'm 25 years old and I grew up in Palermo, Sicily, in a big countryside house where my family raised me surrounded by nature and animals: dogs, cats, parrots, turtles, and chickens. My siblings and I have always taken care of the garden (pruning, watering, collecting firewood) and the animals (feeding, cleaning, and cuddles). Even now, after years of living elsewhere for my studies, I tend to seek out natural, community-based environments to feel happy.

Last summer I had a previous experience with Workaway. Together with my travel partner, Luico, we spent two amazing weeks working and traveling in northern Spain. We met two wonderful hosts who lived a rural lifestyle with a strong awareness of the climate crisis.
We helped them restore and clean up the area they lived in to support a more sustainable, zero-waste life. We cleared a field overrun with weeds, sheared sheep, harvested medicinal herbs, and helped take care of the house. We also hitchhiked to visit small towns and met some lovely locals who toasted with us over a cerveza.


Last September, I also joined a big group of friends for the grape harvest in France. We drove all the way from Italy in an old, beat-up Fiat that broke down at every mountain bend. It took us ten hours to reach Monthelie.
There, I learned to use new tools: cutting grape bunches, carefully cleaning equipment sticky with grape juice, driving trucks through the vineyards, and cooking dinner for thirty people — all while listening almost non-stop to French rap.

In previous years, while living in Turin, I worked in a school helping children with disabilities with their homework and playing with them in the afternoons.


Now I have the strong desire to visit Africa. I’d love to go to Cape Town. I want to offer my help, if possible, to those who ask for it. I know beauty and inequality coexist, and I’m ready to offer my support wherever it’s truly needed.


Thanks and fingers crossed,
Bibi

Interests

Plant care

Gardening

Adventure sports

Nature

Camping

Events & social

Vegetarian or vegan

Culture

Books

DIY & crafts

Animals

Languages

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

More details about my language interests
We would love to learn a new language. We're able to teach Italian and about Italian culture if needed. Lucio is a fluent english speaker too so can teach english at any level.

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Skills and knowledge we'd like to share or learn

We're interested in:  

Eco Projects

Babysitting and creative play

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Some knowledge of:  

Gardening

DIY and building projects

Animal Care

Life at a Farmstay

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Able to teach about:  

Helping around the house

General Maintenance

Charity Work

Art Projects

Languages

Teaching

More details about your skills

Our skills:
- manual skills: grouting, repairing objects, hammering nails, painting walls
- planting plants
- domesticating animals
- lighting a fire
- taking photos
- driving
- sewing
- cooking
- organising activities

Age

25 & 25

What else ...

We can play the guitar, sing at the karaoke, dance, do yoga, football, volleyball, cinema nights, international dinners.

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
  We're vegetarians