Christian

& Martina

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Description

We love deeply exploring the places we visit, meeting people and getting in touch with their hearts and emotions. We are easy to adapt to situations and a curious worker, ready to expand both our knowledge and expertise.

Martina is completing her Master's degree in Psychology, and Christian works in Academia (social interaction & Linguistics). We love to explore new places and souls, looking for alternative ways of life.

Now living in Torino (Italia).
Light and Peace.

Interests

Languages

Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
German: Beginner
French: Beginner

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This workawayer has indicated that they would be interested in sharing their language(s) or learning a new language. You can contact them directly to discuss this.

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Skills and knowledge we'd like to share or learn

We're interested in:  

Art Projects

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Some knowledge of:  

Gardening

General Maintenance

Life at a Farmstay

Eco Projects

Languages

DIY and building projects

Creating/ Cooking family meals

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Able to teach about:  

Charity Work

Teaching

More details about your skills

Short version:
I am a linguist, a humanist and a university teacher. I can share everything I know about languages, communication, Italian literature and culture, teaching modalities, philosophy and spirituality. However, I also have good skills in gardening (practiced in the countryside, where I used to live in Italy), work with animals, building projects.


Extended version:
Since 2020, I have been employed at Università della Svizzera italiana as teaching assistant and Ph.D. student. My research work is part of a Swiss National Science Foundation project and concerns Linguistics, Sociology and multimodal communication. In addition, I teaches courses to students (Master's and Bachelor's) about General Linguistics and Interactional Linguistics.
In 2017 I received a Bachelor's degree in Italian culture and literature, and after that I obtained a Master’s degree in Modern, Classical, Comparative Philology and Linguistics, in 2019.

For 10 years I have collaborated to national and regional projects of the Italian Red Cross (NGO). As a volunteer, I operated in the field of Civil Protection, taking part in the management of camps and water sanitation infrastructures, after the earthquakes of L'Aquila (2009) and Amatrice (2016). Then, I actively worked to national campaigns that aimed at spreading Red Cross' values and a culture of peace among population, especially in schools.

In 2015 I travelled to Japan. My main goal was to deepen my practice of Zen Buddhism. Therefore, I have stayed for almost 2 months in the Antaiji monastery, in Hyōgo prefecture. The monastery hosts an international community and its life is based on mediation practice and work, in order to maintain a total self-sufficiency. Staying there I learned a lot about gardening, agriculture (rice and vegetables), building and repairing, woodworking, cooking (traditional Japanese food). After that, I moved to Tanable, in Wakayama prefecture, where I worked as a teacher of English as second language to children of a local English school, held by an American and a Japanese teachers (thanks to Workaway). In addition, I helped them with the general maintenance of the building.
I have also visited Zen monasteries and temples in Europe, working to tasks similar to what I did in Antaiji.

Age

30 & 23

What else ...

Followed first aid classes in Europe.

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