Lawrence

Canada
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I am currently

At home

Activities i am interested in:

Available to meetup to do things in Toronto

My next destination:
Turkey - from Sep 2026 until Oct 2026
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Description

I am generally motivated by interesting projects and happiness comes from success or making contributions. My experience is very much in science and computing, but interested and eager to take on tasks outside of those areas.
Interests

Technology

Writing

Music

Languages

History

Gardening

Books

Yoga / Wellness

Nature

Dancing

Cycling

Beach
Languages

Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Turkish: Beginner

More details about my language interests
Learning Turkish, and looking for opportunities in with workaway to work on this

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Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn

I'm interested in:

Creative DIY projects

Life at a Farmstay

Hospitality/Tourism

Languages

Some knowledge of:

Light gardening

Light maintenance

Able to teach about:

Helping with Computers/ Internet

Teaching
More details about your skills

science, some teaching, computational biologist, programming
Age

61
What else ...

I'll come back to this with more. I do enjoy card games, and reading, film.
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- Smoker
- Driver's licence
- Allergies
- Special dietary requirements

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15 Oct 2026

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It was lovely having Lawrence with us! He’s such a positive person and so easy to talk to. We really appreciated his help, and I just wish I’d had more time to spend with him, as things were quite busy for me during his stay. Thank you for everything, Lawrence! I’m really glad we got to meet 😊

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10 Oct 2026

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This was my first workaway experience, workıng on Remzi's farm over 8 days at the end of September. I came in by train from Izmir, and Remzi picked me up on his motorcycle, for a short but bumpy ride to the farm. I had the opportunity to do a number of interesting tasks that included picking chestnuts, figs and olives. The bulk of the work however … read more was painting (whitewashing really), including rooms in several buildings, and many outside walls. We also did a lot of cleaning in the outdoor kitchen. My stay coincided with another workawayer, which was good since Remzi was often off-site through the day attending to his dental practice. I did enjoy chatting with Remzi when he was around though, as part of my interest was to develop my Turkish. I only had the chance to meet with Özge a few times, as she did not live on the farm and appeared to be quite busy over that period with her work in the city.

There seems to be ongoing work to develop the site for workawayers. The accomodations were simple, and more like a camp-site, especially the kitchen and bathroom facilities. A few concerns which i hope will be addressed as they renovate: the bathroom and shower stall had no light, the shower drained very poorly so that the water collected and remained from the previous user, and the kitchen was quite dirty when i arrived. We spent a good deal of time cleaning the kitchen at the beginning. The general workaway area also didn't have comfortable spots to relax during downtime, but there were some outdoor lounges by the bungalows on the property; these were rented out as B&Bs over the weekend. Food was available in an old fridge, and we made do with what had been supplied... eggs, tomatoes and other vegetables from the garden, pastas etc, supplementing with some fruit and bread we picked up at the nearby market. There were also some restaurants in the nearby town. One evening Remzi grilled some wonderfull fish for us, as well as preparing kokoreç, a traditional dish. The 2 kittens who lived in the kitchen were a delight!

I started work early each day (7am) and generally finished between 12-2 depending on the tasks. This left the afternoon and evening free to go into the town ( a long, but do-able walk), and from there get a dolmuş to Kuşadası or Selcuk. It was very helpful to get direction on the next day tasks the day before, so that we weren't waiting on the host who we didn't see until 9am or later. I think it would have also been a nicer experience to work together with the hosts more; from other comments it sounds like this was the experience other workawayers might have had, so perhaps it was just bad timing.

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