This Workaway experience with Maria José, which for me was the twentieth in just one year, was truly perfect.
I have had exactly 20 different Workawayers in the last let's say thirteen months, and I must admit that Maria José (together with Enrico), was the best for me.
From the very first day we started working together, and she not only helped
… read more me to arrange the branches on the first day, but from the second day onwards she concentrated on creating a little path with stones, and she was very good at not only picking up stones everywhere, but also at arranging them precisely in the fresh earth, in the mud basically, adding water and putting the stones on the ground as if they were interlocking with each other, so that they don't move.
She concentrated many hours a day working in both sun and rain, and she did very well.
I am very happy because she was very respectful of my house, and of the simple rules I told her the first few days, and then she worked hard and with a lot of energy, even more than the time and effort required.
I really appreciated this proactivity, because Maria José, a.k.a. Majo, is a very special girl: she is tidy, she loves to clean everything, she fixed my terrace, she loves to work with dedication and sacrifice, and she is very intelligent and very strong, so this experience with Majo was absolutely perfect for me.
We started work at the end of the morning and then continued practically without a break until the end of the afternoon, so I am very grateful to Majo for all the work she did here in Gavorrano with me!
This workaway experience with Majo went very well, so I highly recommend this girl from Mexico for anyone looking for the help of a motivated and friendly person.
From the beginning everything went very well!
I really appreciated that Majo helped me so much.
When she first arrived we had dinner and a quiet talk in front of the fire. The next day we started work straight away, and it was wonderful to meet a beautiful fox in the garden in front of my house, which from the second day onwards came back to visit us every afternoon, like a pet!
She really is a beautiful fox, and I decided to name her Tiger Fox :)
At work, the good Majo has been very zealous in helping me create a new path and an area that I would like to make as a bonfire and create an outdoor relaxation area.
She worked with great energy and together we created a kind of terracing, as well as continued the creation of a path which basically leads all the way to the log cabin I have just finished building!
Majo also helped me create simple barriers with branches, and helped me a lot with cutting branches, so I recommend young Majo to anyone looking for good help with gardening and helping out enthusiastically!
The workaway experience with Majo was really good, so I highly recommend this girl from La Paz, because she is a very resourceful and determined girl, capable of getting busy and learning quickly.
For what it's worth, I give a very positive opinion of Majo, because she helped me a lot to arrange the branches in the garden, after pruning, and also to keep the garden and the path clean, in short I highly recommend the good Majo for anyone who is looking for a workawayer able to help in outdoor tasks as well as at home, in a cheerful and spontaneous way. This workaway collaboration experience with Majo was simply perfect and amazing, because she really is an incredible and willing person.
Starting from the very beginning, she was punctual and respectful of the house from the very beginning, and above all we had a great dialogue from the very beginning, also with many passions in common including music, good food (especially my home made pizza and pasta!) and of course nature, which Majo enjoyed very much both in my plot and from my terrace, which filled me with joy.
But besides having a lot of fun together, we also worked quite hard, despite the weather, and Majo was very good, because even though she's a young girl she's really very determined and diligent in her work, and never complains. She helped me clear the path to the house, and she helped me gather wood for the winter, to make the fire, and she was really good and always worked really hard, and then she also quickly has removed all the weeds from the path. In addition to this, she helped me clear a large area of my land, where I would like to make a chill-out zone, and she also cut wood with shears so that I could use it to reinforce the fence on my land, in a totally eco-friendly way. Lastly, she was very supportive all the time.
In short, an irreplaceable help and a tireless companion throughout her stay!
The highlight was being able to enjoy the sunset every day together, when around six o'clock we stopped working in the garden and could enjoy the colours of nature and the beautiful view of the sea from my terrace among the olive trees.
She was also very good at washing the dishes, even though I never asked her to, and it was very nice to enjoy so many delicious dinners together, always listening to lots of music together!
We enjoyed making appetisers, and because we worked a lot, we always arrived hungry at dinner and could enjoy this exquisite time, eating typical Italian dinners, especially with very good pizza & pasta dishes and some white wine.
To sum up, it was an exclusively positive experience, both as a workawayer but also as a new friendship. In fact, we got on very well, which I was very pleased, so we also had the chance to enjoy our friendship and to explore together the beauty of this region and the city of Gavorrano!
And last but not least, she kept me company and it was really wonderful to be able to share some days as friends and also a bit of a tourist in the town of Gavorrano with Majo, who is a pleasant person with whom I never tire of talking and with whom you can share many special experiences.
It's really a pleasure for me to be able to introduce this beautiful area to workawayers from various parts of the world, and with Majo in particular I was always really at ease, both as a workaway collaboration and as a sincere friendship! Above all expectations, truly a positive experience.
So I highly recommend Majo as a workawayer, to anyone who might be interested in her collaboration, because she really is a great girl and a tireless and sensitive worker, with an endless love for nature and animals. A great help to me, and a wonderful person, who loves nature with all her heart.
Esteemed Majo, I hope you will come back soon to visit and help me here on the farm, so you can see how the work is progressing here, especially in the soil & the path which basically leads all the way to the log cabin I have just finished building!
Thank you again for everything and I look forward to seeing you soon!
With great esteem and many fond memories :)
Ciao Maria Jose, grazie mille!
I-renzo