Nina

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Activities i am interested in:

Looking for exchanges in plants, eco-construction, childcare, art, and culture to learn, share, and build meaningful connections. Prefer long, but open to short stays!

Description

Hi!

Curious, creative, and hands-on! I have spent my life across cultures and nationalities. From the age of six, I've spent three years at most in a city, driven by the natural and inherited drive to find home in new places. So far, my life is split between Brazil and the UK, which is where I have native family, but I've also lived in Thailand and Spain, and visited many more.

As a professional copywriter covering the circular economy, I feel strongly about balancing my work with practical experience in sustainability. On my latest adventure, I spent six months camping without electricity or tap water, building ovens, shelters, and living off-grid. I spent half of this period in a landless workers' settlement focused on agroecology, bioconstruction, and shared living, and the other half on a friend's piece of land in the jungle - you can see my temporary home in the photos! I have experience with farm animals and horses in particular (love these gentle giants!), and I’m passionate about natural building, crafting, gardening, and cultural exchange.

As part of my travels, I always make time for social work with children. Energetic and playful myself, I love engaging in nature-based activities and finding ways to learn through play. I believe deeply in supporting the next generation, who will inherit our causes, and I always learn just as much from them. In the past I've worked as a tutor, baby sitter.  Most recently, I’ve been involved in a social Jiu Jitsu project for kids in the community of Morro de São Paulo, Bahia, which has been about more than healthy exercise, it's about rethinking sports and community as a path to a better life where access to education and opportunities is limited.

I’m also launching a podcast highlighting artists and innovators working with biomaterials—continuing my commitment to storytelling as a tool for meaningful change.

Oh, did I mention I love art? Be it reviving my old clothes with paint or leather that I prepare myself, pyrography, personalising my instruments, producing signs, creating mosaics from broken tiles - I'm all in!

Look foward to hearing from you!
Nina

Interests

Charity work

Farming

Technology

Sustainability

Politics / Social justice

Writing

Performing arts

Plant care

Music

Books

DIY & crafts

Languages

History

Gardening

Carpentry

Drawing & painting

Animals

Art & design

Nature

Cycling

Hiking

Water sports

Outdoor activities

Mountain

Sailing / Boating

Fitness

Camping

Dancing

Adventure sports

Beach

Languages

Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
Portuguese: Fluent

More details about my language interests
Growing up and moving around meant I quickly picked up several languages out of necessity, giving me a knack for learning and interpreting new tongues. I'd love to share what I know and continue learning from other language speakers. Every language is a universe in itself, and with my literary background, I'm particularly fascinated by the historical, social, and cultural contexts behind each one! :)

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Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn

I'm interested in:  

Being an elderly companion

Charity Work

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Some knowledge of:  

Gardening

DIY and building projects

Babysitting and creative play

General Maintenance

Life at a Farmstay

Eco Projects

Animal Care

Teaching

Helping around the house

House sitting

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Able to teach about:  

Hospitality/Tourism

Languages

Art Projects

More details about your skills

🛠️ Practical & Hands-On Skills
- Bioconstruction & Natural Building: Building with clay (the basics of adober, super adobe, building an oven, etc), shelter construction, basic carpentry (think rustic tables), and off-grid living.
- Gardening & Agroecology: Experience with planting, soil care, and agroecological practices.
- Animal Care: Skilled in handling and caring for horses and farm animals.

🧠 Communication & Education
- Copywriting: Professional experience in writing about sustainability and the circular economy.
- Language Skills: Multilingual with an intuitive grasp of languages; interest in historical and cultural context of language.
- Teaching & Childcare: Tutoring, babysitting, and engaging children in learning through play, especially outdoors.

🎨 Creative & Artistic Skills
- Natural Crafting: Making capoeira instruments (berimbau, caxixi, reco-reco), repurposing clothes with paints and leftover fabrics, crochet.
- Art & Design: Visual creativity through wearable art, upcycling, and natural materials exploration (think vines, wood and metal scraps, even fish scale earrings!)

🌿 Sustainability & Eco-living
- Low-impact Living: Lived off-grid without tap water or electricity for six months. This includes building basic structures to cook and shelter, the basics of building with clay
- Resourcefulness: Skills in reusing, crafting, and reducing synthetic material use.

→ Ethical Outlook: Strong commitment to walking the talk—blending professional sustainability work with lived experience.

→ Community Engagement: Experience with youth programs (e.g., social Jiu Jitsu project, kid's in community's, mentorship), collaborative living, and cultural exchange.

→ Podcasting & Storytelling

Age

28

What else ...

My first podcast documentary is in the making! I interview a Brazilian artist who tells me her story as a natural paint maker working with soil!

Things that might be useful to know... I've also worked as a
- Language and Literature tutor
Waitress and bartender,
- Mentor to vulnerable children
- Horse groom (got my BHS level 1 certificate), as a yoga teacher.
- Most recently, I've started working as a street vendor selling my own line of homemade 100% cocoa sweets covered with cocoa nibs - here we call them brigadeiros!

Some more information

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  Smoker

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  Driver's licence

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  Allergies
  Brazil nuts (castanha do Para)

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  Special dietary requirements