Alice & Hannah

United Kingdom
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Travel information
We are currently
At home
Our next destination:
Portugal - from May 2025 until Jun 2025
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Description
We are two joyful and empathetic individuals who find joy from the natural world and meeeting new people. Our curiouse minds are most at peace when exploring new places and descovering new ways of life.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
Sign Language (BSL): Beginner
French: Beginner
More details about my language interests
We would like to expand our spanish and French language skills as well as british sign language and macaton. We both have A-level qualifications in english literature which we would be happy to offer our help teaching.
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Skills and knowledge we'd like to share or learn
We're interested in:
Eco Projects
Charity Work
Some knowledge of:
Gardening
Babysitting and creative play
Being an elderly companion
General Maintenance
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Helping around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
Art Projects
Teaching
House sitting
Able to teach about:
Languages
More details about your skills
We both have extensive backgrounds and training in customer service. This includes housekeeping, managing finance, food hygiene, waitressing, cleaning and more. Aswell as an enthusiastic and confident attitudes towards customer communication, we bring efficiency, time management, and a willingness to learn. We are not afraid of hard work and would be delighted at the oppertunity to help support customers whilst exploring a new culture and environment.
Age
18 & 19
What else ...
We enjoy engaging in social activities and love getting to know new people. We both have a passion for music, art and literature and enjoy calm time in nature. Alice is a talented artist and is training in tayloring while Hannah is a skilled drummer and studied criminology-sociology, both at the university of the west of England. We both bring creative perspectives and an academic intrest in life.
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- Smoker
- Driver's licence
- Allergies
- Special dietary requirements

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12 Jun 2025

Left by host (Improve your French and join ...) for Workawayer ()

Alice and Hannah arrived in Melle on this Tuesday afternoon. Gilles spent his precious time /as we have a lot to do/picking them up and driving over here. They then met Eva, got to their room and had a rest till dinner. All 3 having pretty poor French we thought to remediate to it as from the following day i.e. Wednesday. As they felt tired that… read more day, the asked for a rest instead which was fine with me. After all the lessons are in their own interest and gave e a rest too.

Together with Gian we had prepared the room with deep cleaning, so that they should feel happy in a nicely made up and comfortable room / Now I am wondering whether they have stripped the bed and hoovered their room and bringing back their teacups before leaving , or if they consider that this is the hosts job?/.
This morning, Thursday, when we saw that they were running late for breakfast and work at 10.30, I sent Gian, our very motivated workawayer over in order to get them. He came back with a note, that said that they had left: After one days work only. It is true that it was hot on Wednesday, where they had ...like all others ....to work outside for 3;5 hrs ::: but the rest late aternoon and after the rest, was spent inside window cleaning, nice and cool!!. They were happy to sleep till 10 o clock after arriving,which was, I believe appreciated after a longer journey, but //did not enjoy working in the peak of the sun ... here I must mention that still at 20 hrs it is a peak on a very hot day ...and we are not in the habit of having people work at night, especially under rain.
I understand now hosts only taking workawayers as from a certain age onwards only.
Alice was more vif then Hannah, whom we found to be extremely slow but we would have given it a chance. Otherwise they were rather obliging towards our instructions and seemed willing. Honesty though would have been appreciated, as with us one can talk and see if something needs changing.
They don t realize they have taken the place of 2 other people, I refused for them. They don t realize this is WORKaway and not Holiday or Culture away, though the 3 aspects together make a whole...and we see to it that it stays that way. It is normal to get work done within a certain period of time.

As for the cultural side I had proposed Thursday, to go to Melle s local market, to mingle with local people...gilles would have driven them..... and as from Sunday onwards a 3 days stay was programmed as a big break during those 2 weeks to enjoy yet more culture as well as seaside pleasures together or seperate with the 3rd workawayer. I wonder if they have stripped the bed and hoovered the room ... or if the also seem to think that is up to the host, ......before sneaking out [redacted]. Not a very proper behaviour or nice attitude to have !!

To be good enough to prepare for and having to wash and iron the bedsheets after 2 nights only without THEM having the guts to tell us into our face, that this wasnot what they had imagined and 5 hrs being too hard or too much/ even when split up... [redacted]... I wish them to better read profiles , and can assure them that they won t find many hosts holding hands .. we have no time for that , for spending hours on lecturing about culture, ... culture needs to be lived and experienced and is talked about at the evening meal and explored during outings and not during working hours.
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We are quite disappointed about their lack of reading, enthusiasme and conception of reality.
it is stated in our profile, that work includes an intensive property clean up... if one doesn t know what that might involve, too bad.
However, I realize how lucky we have been in the past and a hearty thank you to all those ex workawayers who not only put THEIR needs first, but understood what help really meant and were happy to do so !!
Bon voyage; GIRLS [redacted]
Nevertheless, We thought them to be very nice, polite and joyful...this being said, this is not enough for us hosting people.
We shall no longer be hosting immature youngsters in the future, on the outlook for the fun factor from the very first day and may therefore either partly refer back to local people or raise the age factor to at least 23 yrs- at least we won t have the hustle of picking up, preparing rooms or food, suffering moods and hence have more time also to ourselves.

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