From: Switzerland
Couple account
Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Romania
01/08/2019 - 23/08/2019
Hello!
We are two students from Fribourg, Switzerland. It’s located in the West part of the country. Fanny studies medicine and Jérémy civil engineering.
We enjoy dancing salsa together and various sports: boxing, playing basketball, mountain biking (mainly Jérémy, but Fanny too when she’s motivated^^). But we are also very interested in other kinds of more alternative sports like yoga or even bo staff spinning.
Jérémy has already experimented living in a farm and also in an alpine chalet. These were very good experiences and opportunities to learn how to take care of farm animals, although both sites were actually conventional exploitations. Jérémy has lived a hard, simple life during these weeks, especially in the alpine chalet.
Jérémy works a little bit for associations in his region. For example, he has been coaching children under 10 in a Basketball team and he is currently working in a concert hall called Ebullition. The main work here for him was to welcome and make dinner for the artists and the personnal, almost 20 persons.
Agricultural works like growing vegetables and gardening don't frighten Jérémy. He is interested by all kinds of animal care, especially horses. And he could also try to apply his knowledge in conventionnal house building, based on what he is learning. He is very curious about alternative building ways too.
On the other hand, Fanny enjoys all kinds of creative activities, be it indoors or outdoors, like painting landscapes, dancing and crafting or designing different objects. She would love to learn about permaculture and likes experimenting with DIYs (like making her own beauty products). Besides each year she organises an open house day designed for children at the local hospital which is called « Teddy bear hospital ». Although she does’nt have a language certificate she is quite fluent in English and speaks Hungarian and French as her mother tongues. Thus she would love to help people learn those languages or even get to know the basics of the local language!
So our goal is to basically experiment an alternative/ ecological way of life which is closer to nature, be it off grid or not. Gardening, permaculture, farmstay and unconventionnal crafting (mud bricks for example) are fields in which we would love to gain experience.
Why? Simply because last semester we stayed all week long inside buildings so we definitely need some fresh air.
We’re looking forward to meeting you and your lifestyle!
Gardening
Building
General Maintenance
Cooking / shopping
Farmstay
Help with Eco project
Help in the house
Animal care
Charity work
Language practice
Art project
Help with Computers / internet
Teaching
Language skills
We speak both French, German and English
Fanny speaks Hungarian and Jeremy is currently learning Hungarian, Romanian and Russian.
Practice skills:
We can learn a lot in this domain.
Here are the skills we can provide:
- Help with language learning
- Animal care
- Cooking, cleaning and householding
- Medical knowledge (but on a very basic level since Fanny is at the beginning of her cursus)
- Civil engineering skiffs (Hydraulic (canalisation), Structure dimensioning (wood, concrete), Géotechnic (slope stability, compaction
of soil) , drawing on Autocad (plan of what you want))
(If you need advice in those fields, it is preferable that Jeremy comes a first time to assess the exact problem and he can then take some time to think about a solution (or even make his semester project out of it :) ). After that, in case a solution is properly found and agreed on, he could come back a second time and help with it.
Spoken languages: english, hungarian, french, german, little bit of romanian and russian
23 & 23
Suisse and Hungarian
Jeremy enjoys playing chess and we both love any simple board games like UNO or monopoly etc..
Smoker
Driver's licence
Allergies
Fanny should avoid eating too much milk and eggs, but small amounts are ok.
Special dietary requirements
When possible, Fanny will avoid dairy-based products, but she is flexible with that too
