Giulia

United Kingdom
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Hello! I'm a recent graduate, just finishing a Fine Art degree in Newcastle. I love being creative and working with my hands and with other people. I come from an artistic background in Cornwall so enjoy playing and exploring the outside world - especially coasts and beaches !

My most happiest moments are in the kitchen ! I really enjoy feeding others delicious things (especially homegrown or local), and like to get creative with the ingredients around me. A good meal together brings me purpose and connection with other people. I'm also eager to learn about traditions and processes surrounding food growing and making, and being involved is the best way to do that!
Interests
Drawing & painting
Events & social
Mountain
Yoga / Wellness
Vegetarian or vegan
Sustainability
Plant care
Outdoor activities
Nature
Languages
Music
Hiking
Gardening
Culture
DIY & crafts
Dancing
Cooking & food
Animals
Camping
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Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Italian: Beginner
More details about my language interests
I understand Italian to a good level but struggle with speaking so would like to improve that skill to connect with my family culture on a deeper level. I enjoy learning languages and their different rhythms, so whenever I am I like to make an effort to speak the local language and dialect.
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Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn
I'm interested in:
Charity Work
Languages
DIY and building projects
Some knowledge of:
Eco Projects
Gardening
Helping around the house
Able to teach about:
Art Projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
More details about your skills
I have just completed a Fine Art BA at Newcastle University where I organised and ran workshops for pasta making. These workshops looked at peoples relationship to food traditions and feelings of home. Here I learnt great skills in the building of community projects, particularly fundraising and curating. I set up a weekly soup kitchen that fed our students, raising money for our degree show at the end of the year. This project was run and organised by me but relied on the help of many other students cooking together to bring everyone a meal to share.

I also helped set up the community allotment at the university, prepping the space for planting and growing our own produce which we then used for fornightly meals with all our volunteers in the garden. Here is where I learnt some of the gardening skills that I have and my interest to continue growing my own food has continued past graduation.

I grew up in Cornwall, nurturing my love for the wild outdoors. I have enjoyed learning foraging skills here that can help sustain me year round, always to be accompanied by walking and swimming. I've also helped run a lot of children's' workshops here at home and at festivals across the UK to explore art and creative play, drawing, potion making, lantern building, and all sorts! I have lots of experience preparing and running these kinds of workshops for all ages using all kinds of different materials.

My love for cooking stems from my Italian mother, who has taught me so much about caring for others using food. Cooking for others is a key part to how I live and I have developed these skills as an adult, learning to cook for various different groups of people with all kinds of flavours and cuisines. I have been a vegan for three years now, and whilst it was difficult to limit my diet, I really enjoy being creative with simple, fresh ingredients.
Age
23
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  no
- Special dietary requirements

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2 Jan 2024

Left by host (Animal sanctuary and ...) for Workawayer (Giulia)

Giulia stayed with us for 6 weeks during the olive harvest, being in charge of the cooking for the team. We want to start this feedback by saying that if you could give Giulia a sixth star on the workaway rating, she would deserve it all! She not only did a great job, but she greatly exceeded our expectations. Being in charge of the cooking during… read more this time of the year is not an easy task. Picture this: you have to feed 10 people in an animal sanctuary, who come from all over the world and have different appetites and palates, who come everyday home from the fields, using only local seasonal fresh veggies, often from our garden or recycled from a store, working in our old and small kitchen. Giulia made all of this look like it was as easy as drinking a glass of water! Every day, every meal, she put several delicious dishes on the table and everyone loved to have her yummy food. It was like eating in a restaurant every day: she got us all spoiled! Every dish of every meal was amazing, and in 6 weeks of Giulia's meals, we cannot recall a dish that she prepared twice. One could really tell she was putting her heart into everything she was preparing. She often prepared things that need time and effort and were not necessarily required, and living in a setting like this, we know and can really appreciate the extra work to have something homemade. Examples? For 6 weeks we didnt buy bread: Giulia was baking bread using our sourdough. Dont have yogurt available? She was making her own vegan yogurt here. Fancy a pudding but dont have bakeries whatsoever in rural areas? No worries, Giulia was preparing all sorts of desserts and sweets, often with fruit that she harvested here. She loved doing all these things and you could really tell, as we loved tasting all her flavoursome dishes. She is a master at not wasting anything: she was using every part of every vegetable we had. Who knew cauliflower stems and leaves or carrot tops could be so good! Although, our chickens and sheep didnt like this aspect of her so much... She managed to blend in the local environment so well, that sometimes she had vegetables she had never seen before, and still she was eager to prepare them and did so in excellent ways. She learned a lot while being here, as we learnt a lot from her.
Giulia stayed home with Christin every day to prepare the food for the harvest group. It’s always been a pleasure to have her around and spend some time talking to each other in the mornings when all the others were gone harvesting or finding her in the veggie garden harvesting our food or sitting in the sun cutting onions. She made our place a better place. It was very nice to talk about food with her, since it's one of Luca's favourite topics!
She integrated perfectly with the other volunteers, despite having different work shifts than the rest. Giulia is a kind, funny, reliable, mature, thoughtful, calm, flexible, caring young woman, and we cannot express how much we appreciated her help and how much we loved to have her being part of our project. Thank you Giulia for taking care of us, come back soon! (Pleeease!!!)

(Excellent )

11 Dec 2023

Left by Workawayer (Giulia) for host (Animal sanctuary and ...)

luca and christin made my first workaway and unbelievably amazing experience. not only are they welcoming and organised as hosts, they have the brightest of personalities and made life at the sanctuary some of the most smile-filled days ever. i came to work as the chef for the project whilst the olive harvest was happening. luca was amazing at… read more

(Excellent )