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We are currently
Travelling
Activities we are interested in:
We are currently in Germany for the weekend, looking for a project in Switzerland
Description
We are a binational couple Samuel, french, and Xiaoyu, chinese. We are both easy going and flexible that knows how to adapt to our hosts. Nothing makes us more happy to meet and empower others people to exercise their freedoms and pursue their goals...
Last year, we quit our job to travel extensively and make some volunteering around the world. We like to discover new ways of life, different cultures, interesting people...
Curious and open-minded by nature, we have good communication skills and can adapt to many situations. Fluent in French, English, Italian, and Mandarin, communication should not be a barrier for us.
Samuel is very energetic, and has lots of experience in the hositality and tourism buisness before to dedicate himself to psychology related activies. Attentive to ecology and environment, he is interested about everything connected to food/farming, from growing to harvest. He likes participate to social projects, communities, NGO's...
Xiaoyu has great organization skills, and ability to achives tasks that requires concentration and precision. She worked before as product manager and have experience about IT and computers, but she has grown-up in the countryside, and is not afraid to get her hands dirty.
Interests
Writing
Nature
Mountain
Languages
Hiking
Gardening
Farming
Events & social
Cycling
Culture
Cooking & food
Books
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Chinese (Mandarin): FluentMore details about my language interests
I'm interested about learning German.
Skills and knowledge we'd like to share or learn
We're interested in:
Art Projects
Some knowledge of:
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Life at a Farmstay
Animal Care
Babysitting and creative play
Being an elderly companion
Able to teach about:
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Eco Projects
Helping around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
Charity Work
Languages
Teaching
Helping with Computers/ Internet
General Maintenance
More details about your skills
Samuel has a lot of work experience in the tourism and hospitality industry and know everything about restaurants/bars/hotel/resort. I also have years of experience operating for rehabilitation centers, refugees, and people that suffer from psychiatric disporders. I know about fruit and vegetable production and sale, and have experience about working in farms, with animals. I got specific abilities in teaching that are related from my formation in psychology.
Xiaoyu knows bout fruits and vegetable a lot about computers, photography, social media, marketing, e-commerce. Planning and organisational skills are my main skills. Both of us can cook nice dishes from around the world, since we cook on a daily basis and really put love in it.
Age
42 & 38
Some more information
Smoker
Driver's licence
Allergies
NOSpecial dietary requirements
No, I'll eat the same as you.
Feedback
Brigitte is incredibly patient, full of energy, and always works alongside us Workawayers. During our stay, we took part in a variety of tasks, including maintaining… read more
It was the first time this family hosted Workawayers, but as the whole family speaks English fluently and as they are absolutely welcoming and nice people to be around, communication was effortless—it felt like they had been doing this… read more
They are independent, willing to put in all the necessary work and even more than you ask them of. They are real pros in gardening and are always willing to help around the house.
It was a great experience, we enjoyed talking to them and listening to so many… read more
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Brigitte is incredibly patient, full of energy, and always works alongside us Workawayers. During our stay, we took part in a variety of tasks, including maintaining… read more
It was the first time this family hosted Workawayers, but as the whole family speaks English fluently and as they are absolutely welcoming and nice people to be around, communication was effortless—it felt like they had been doing this… read more
They are independent, willing to put in all the necessary work and even more than you ask them of. They are real pros in gardening and are always willing to help around the house.
It was a great experience, we enjoyed talking to them and listening to so many… read more
They helped making the swimming pool area usable again after winter, fixing, ordering, cutting food, and also cooking many delicious meals.
They are hard working, always happy to help and discover and also… read more
Hélène was always caring and attentive to our well-being. We did a lot of things together, such as… read more
Before I arrive at this place I was concern because I was the only volunteer and I was feeling worrying about the fact that I will be alone with this family. But one day after my arrival I was already overwhelm with goodwill and the fantastic sense of hospitality from this… read more
we really enjoyed his food help and friendship.
pls welcome again Samuel
If you go there, you'll for sure have an extraordinary feeling of pure life and freedom, a very different experience from all what you've done before.
The house comfortable, and they'll also make you discover the surroundings, hots… read more
First, both of them are very friendly and they'll welcome you in their small organic farm with a lot of kindness and… read more
