From: Estonia
Couple account
Canada, New Zealand
09/09/2018 - 30/04/2020
882
At home
Fun and active couple, eager to take on the world. Enjoying outdoors, cultural experiences, slow travelling and cuddling with dogs.
/Currently at home in Estonia ๐ช๐ช, working and taking a break from volunteering. Hanna is studying new things and is trying to start a new kind of career. Magnus is a roadworker - installing road signs etc. On our free time Hanna is trying to grow kitchen herbs and we've started to learn Spanish on our own/
Hey!
We are HANNA (23) and MAGNUS (27), two fun young adults from ESTONIA. After working and studying for most of our lives, we would like to DISCOVER new places and MEET new and interesting people from all over the world. We are INDEPENDENT couple who love TRAVELLING and ANIMALS, especially DOGS.
We would really like to experience the true spirit of different countries, national cuisines, everyday lives and customs. Getting this kind of experience would make our lives and travelling more enjoyable.
With the help of WORKAWAY COMMUNITY we've done a 9 and a 8 month long trip through a part of Europe (UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal). During our trips we learned a lot about different life aspects, how to get by, how to blend in to a new environment and more importantly, learned about ourselves - what motivates us, how we like to travel and live our life, what to look for in life.
Our mother tongue is ESTONIAN. We both speak pretty good ENGLISH and understand a little GERMAN. We have also started to learn Spanish on our own. Magnus also has studied little Finnish in UNI and Hanna learned Portuguese for a year long time ago, but we have not been able to practice these languages and they're mostly forgotten.
We are open to LEARNING new WORKING SKILLS and getting LANGUAGE PRACTISE through meeting locals.
Preferably we would like to STAY in one place from 2 weeks up to 1 month.
We are HARD-WORKING, TIDY, RESPONSIBLE and our timetable is FLEXIBLE.
We have had previous WORKAWAY EXPERIENCES in England (x3), Northern Ireland (x1), Scotland (x1), France (x5), Spain (x6) and Portugal (x1).
Down below is written more about us and our PREVIOUS WORK and workaway EXPERIENCES. Feel free to write and ask more about us and our experiences!
We are looking forward to meeting you!
Cheers,
Magnus and Hanna
Eco Projects
Charity Work
Art Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Babysitting and creative play
General Maintenance
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Life at a Farmstay
Helping around the house
Animal Care
Hospitality/Tourism
Language practice
M A G N U S
studied FORESTRY in UNI and has had work-experience as a lifeguard, as a WAITER and BARMEN, as a COOK in a fast food restaurant, in CONSTRUCTION and WOODWORKING, industrial and post-construction CLEANING and window washing service and in a big wood-working FACTORY.
H A N N A
has had work-experience in ROOMSERVICE and ADMINISTRATION, has worked as a BARMAID and as a WAITRESS, also some odd temporary jobs as a vacation filler.
We both went to summer camps for youth during the summers growing up where we had some easy tasks like WEEDING, LANDSCAPING, PAINTING etc. Growing up in private households, WORKING OUTSIDE has always been a thing to do. We both have a DRIVING LICENSE.
During our TRAVELS we have helped out our hosts with:
weeding, strimming lawn and hedges, cutting back trees, animalcare (dogs, cats, chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, sheep, pigs, horses, cows), dog- and housesitting, childcare, plastering / painting inside & outside, general household tasks, cooking, cleaning, organizing spaces, construction, sanding / painting / restoring furniture & shutters, woodworking, cutting and storing firewood, building fences, cleaning B&B rooms and apartments, social media promotion, trekking and camping preparation, driving and dealing with paying clients and lots of more things.
Our previous workaway experiences:
1# ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Shropshire, England, 2 weeks.
Gardening (weeding, pruning, strimming), animalcare (dogs, pigs, chickens), sanding & painting window frames, walls etc., cleaning, sorting and organising, picking & storing apples.
2# ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Cornwall, England, 6 weeks.
Gardening (weeding, pruning, strimming, cutting hedges), helping with animalcare (dogs, 30 cows, 150 sheep, farmbirds), restoring furniture (sanding, painting), painting inside & outside, cleaning & sorting spaces, cleaning / waterproofing and packing up yurts, cutting and stacking firewood.
3# ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Rutland, England, 4 weeks.
Gardening (pruning, weeding), animalcare (dog, horses), plastering & painting, restoring furniture (sanding, painting), general maintenence, cleaning & sorting spaces.
4# ๐ฏ๐ช County Down, Northern Ireland, 1 week.
General household maintenence, cleaning, organising & sorting spaces.
5# ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 2 weeks.
Dogsitting during the holidays, housesitting.
6# ๐ซ๐ท Centre-Val de Loire, France, 3 weeks.
Building fences, animalcare (dogs, 40 horses), general maintenence, cleaning, washing and ironing laundry.
7# ๐ซ๐ท Ariegรฉ, France, 10 weeks.
Cleaning rentable apartments, washing laundry, childcare (5yo), social media promotion and webpage maintenence, general household maintenance, cooking, gardening.
8# ๐ซ๐ท Languedoc, France, 4 weeks.
Roomservice (Chambre d'Hote), cleaning, washing and ironing laundry, gardening, childcare (2yo).
9# ๐ซ๐ท Normandie, France, 3 weeks.
General maintenence, restoring furniture & shutters, weeding, cooking, helping with the loading and unloading the van for the fairs, set-up in fair etc.
10# ๐ซ๐ท/๐ช๐ธ Ariegรฉ, France / Catalunya, Spain, 6 weeks.
Trek logistics, camp set-up, driving clients, cleaning rentable apartments, preparing lunchbags, grocery shopping, gardening, washing laundry, catering for groups, childcare (6yo).
11# ๐ช๐ธ Catalunya, Spain, 10 days.
Dogsitting for 18 rescuedogs.
12# ๐ช๐ธ Catalunya, Spain, 3 weeks.
General maintenance, cleaning, cooking, cutting & sorting firewood, garden maintenance, childcare (4yo & 9yo).
13# ๐ช๐ธ Catalunya, Spain, 4 weeks.
General household maintenance, cooking, cleaning, construction, concrete work, sorting spaces, sanding & painting, restoring furniture, making firewood, gardening.
14# ๐ช๐ธ Mallorca, Spain, 4 weeks.
Cleaning, cutting firewood, dog walking, woodworks, building, cutting hedges, strimming, weeding, general maintenence, sanding, painting.
15# ๐ช๐ธ Mallorca, Spain, 3 weeks.
Dogsitting, housesitting, cleaning, reorganizing, general maintenence.
16# ๐ช๐ธ Andalusia, Spain, 3 weeks.
Cutting back trees, gardening, weeding, animalcare (pigs, chickens), cutting firewood, cleaning, caring for piglets, woodworking, setting up irrigation system, painting.
17# ๐ต๐น Algarve, Portugal, 7 weeks.
Animalcare (cattery, dogs, horses), plastering, painting, reorganizing, gardening, weeding, pruning, strimming, planting, cutting firewood.
You can also read some of our feedbacks to learn more about us and our work ethics. We love to learn new things and help out.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Estonian: Fluent
German: Beginner
More details about my language interests
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.
27 & 23
Estonian
We come from a small town located in southern part of Estonia. Estonia is quite small country and there's only about 1 million of us.
Magnus likes SINGING in a choir and playing FOOTBALL with his friends.
Hanna enjoys DANCING and COOKING, she also loves taking care of her family dog Berta.
We love WALKING in the NATURE and parks, HIKING, bicycle riding, playing ping pong and discgolf, BOARDGAMES, pool / billiard, bar games and learning about new and interesting OUTDOOR activities.
We love COFFEE.
We are MEAT-EATERS and aren't looking for hosts that have strict vegetarian / vegan households.
We enjoy company and laughter, sharing meals and a glass of wine / beer, chatting and listening stories about life, travelling, different experiences.
Smoker
Driver's licence
Allergies
Special dietary requirements
