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Bonjour! :D

I am Ana from Galicia, a dreamer, farmer, beginner basket weaver and hopefully soon an engineer.
I study chemical engineering in Santiago de Compostela and my dream is to connect my studies with my parent's farm and make a living out of it, enjoying the peaceful life in the countryside close to the ocean and help the rural to face depopulation. I give private lessons to children at the same time and I sell fruit at the street market on Saturdays. I am a workaway host as well: https://www.workaway.info/en/host/172316174357 and the community manager of a very nice instagram account: @comoxoorganics

I also take care of ''La Conga''. La Conga is a house my parents own in the old town of Santiago. I am the manager of the house, I rent the rooms and I also live there. As I love the international enviroment I always rent the rooms to foreigners. This year I share La Conga with a Canadian, a boy from Ivory Coast and a boy from Benin, a Croatian and a British girl.

I am also a big fan of languages since I was awarned with an scholarship at the age of 16 to study one year in Michigan. That year really opened my eyes and made me fall in love with languages and cultures from all over the world.

I've studied German for 5 years and I am quite fluent speaking it, as I worked 2 summers and study one year in Germany. I learned Italian at La Conga, because I lived with many Italians. I can speak a bit of Portuguese because I am Galician and I did an internship with nanoparticles in Braga et maintenant le français c'est mon péché mignon!!!

Interests

Languages spoken

English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
Galician: Fluent
German: Intermediate
French: Intermediate
Portuguese: Intermediate
Italian: Beginner

Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn

I'm interested in:  

Charity Work

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Some knowledge of:  

DIY and building projects

General Maintenance

Animal Care

Art Projects

Helping with Computers/ Internet

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Able to teach about:  

Gardening

Babysitting and creative play

Creating/ Cooking family meals

Life at a Farmstay

Eco Projects

Helping around the house

Hospitality/Tourism

Languages

Teaching

More details about your skills

FARMING and COOKING:
I am a very hardworking girl as I am daughter of two Galician farmers. I can do many things related to agriculture like prunning (only kiwitrees and vineyards), grafting, planting and harvesting. I can cook very well and I love to do it!! My speciality are Galician empanadas, I also make the dough ;)

TEACHING and IT skills:
I can teach, I already have experience as German, English and Robotics teacher. I am patient and empathetic to my students. Teaching robotics also helped me to develop my IT and programming skills even more than at University. I can do 3D design and a bit of website development with HTML and CSS, and programming.

ART, MUSIC and DRAMA:
I can paint and draw, I've been going to painting classes where I developed skills like charcoal drawing, oil, acrylic and ink painting, since I am a child until I was 15 years old. I stopped because I wasn't motivated anymore, the way of teaching was too traditional and the teachers didn't help me to develop my imagination skills, which I think it is one of the most important things when it comes to art.
I did a course of ceramics and during the pandemic I've started to learn basket weaving with an elderly neighbor from the village. I try to make baskets since then during the months of February and March, when the wicker is flexible.
I can dance salsa, bachata and merengue because I did a course with some friends when I was 12 years old. I can also dance Galician folk dance as I am member of Xilbarbeira, a Galician dance group from my hometown since I am 15 years old but now I am starting contemporary dance. I can also play the tambourine and a bit the ukulele. I did 2 years of theater in Highschool so I can also be a bit silly and dramatic ;)


I've worked every summer since I am 16 years old and every job I had I always did it with passion, and because of this I consider myself a fast learner. I worked in Colorado one summer as babysitter and did some gardening, the next summer I worked as a waitress in my hometown and my favourite thing to do was to make the foam of the coffee, so I was really good at it! The next summer I went to Germany as an Au Pair to learn the language, and the summer afterwards I went back to Germany and worked hard in a Hotel preparing breakfasts, cleaning bedrooms and bathrooms and sometimes being a Recepcionist. The summer afterwards I found an Austrian family that came to Portosín and I was their babysitter and last summer I worked as a Research Fellow at the Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in Braga, Portugal, this internship I loved it because I was surrounded by foreigners and learned a lot about Nanotechnology, which is a wide interesting field!

I also did workaway in France in a cheese farm (I learned how to make cheese!!) and at La Maison CHA-RI-VA-RI, a very nice maison d'hôtes helping with breakfasts and cleaning. My last workaway was this spring break in Portugal, at Lugar do Olhar Feliz, I learned soooo much there about citrus and essential oils.

Age

29

What else ...

I like to help and make people happy, like Amelie. I love to learn new things and share what I know! Chemical Engineering is not my biggest passion, but I am really into the fermentation process and beverage technology (to make wine or distillate) or agriculture, environment and arts. I like many different things, from surfing and biking, to painting and ceramics, science and agriculture... and many more things. I am also a very friendly and openminded person that loves to connect with others, hear their stories and learn from them :)

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