Melanie

Austria
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Travel information
I am currently
Travelling
Description
I am an open-minded, postive 20-year old girl that loves meeting new people and adventures. Next to travelling, volleyball is one of my biggest passions. Thatˋs the reason why I'm also a coach of a youth volleyball team in my hometown and love working with children.

I was an aupair for three months in a lovely family in Triest. This experience was great and I decided to continue working as an aupair in the United States. After this experience I want to use the rest of my gap year for getting to know other cultures & people in foreign countries and expand my horizon.
Interests
Beach
Nature
Adventure sports
Team sports
Winter sports
Fitness
Hiking
Animals
Pets
Languages
Drawing & painting
Events & social
Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn
I'm interested in:
Gardening
Charity Work
Language practice
Art Projects
Teaching
Some knowledge of:
Babysitting and creative play
General Maintenance
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Helping around the house
Animal Care
Hospitality/Tourism
More details about your skills
communication in mother tongue and foreign languages
experience with children (coach of a youth volleyball team)
sports
digital and social competence
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Intermediate
Italian: Beginner
Age
21
Some more information
- Smoker
- Driver's licence
- Allergies
- Special dietary requirements

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25/12/2020

Left by Workawayer (Melanie) for host for (Become a member of our family ...)

I spent my last three months in the place with this wonderful family and it was a time filled with joy, happiness and love. Vuokko, Pierpaolo, Sebastian and Karin made me feel like home since the very first moment.
I really enjoyed playing, drawing, baking and spending time with the kids. Sebastian is a very smart boy and he taught me a lot about… read more

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18/12/2020

Left by host (Become a member of our family ...) for Workawayer (Melanie)

We met Melanie on the workaway and we had our first on line call in August, in between our family and her the connection was immediate, even on the phone.
Melanie joined us on spacial day, September 14, the first day of school for our son Sebastian, and first day of Kindergarten for our daughter Karin.
Her family drove her in our area, and we… read more spend some hours of the afternoon in a wine place near our home.
Our kids like her from the first moment, even the little one that is pretty selective. During the staying with us Melanie was in charge of some house works, keeping the kitchen clean, run the dish washer, preparing breakfast in school days, reordering toys and the kid/s clothes and the kids room. Melanie is a fast learner, in less than a week she understood the family daily like and the kid's routine. She was picking up Karin at the kindergarten and spending some hours with the kids in the afternoon organising activities in english for them. Karin has done lot's of drawing and painting. Our kids also enjoyed to bake some traditional Austrian sweets, vanillakipfeln and keisersmaren...
Melanie is also a volleyball player and Sebastian enjoyed to play with her in the house garden.
During her permanence she enrolled to Italian classes, the first lessons were taken in person , but unfortunately most of the course has been on line. During those three month Melanie made some friends in the area so she had the possibility to enjoy other young people company and hang out with other ladies her age.
Even if we are a host family from a long time, this experience has been different from the previous ones because of the coronavirus. In our area we have and had lots of limitations, in those three month we have been in red zone, restaurants, bars, museums closed, so there were much less possibilities for a young lady and for us too to travel or for social life.
Kids sports activities have been cancelled in October, and never started back, so our children spent most of the afternoons at home in close contact with Melanie, and lots of week ends there was no possibility for travelling because was forbidden to leave the municipality.... we did not have the possibility to go out for dinner with Melanie, or to take her to some sight seeing... all this limitations made us to build a closer and stronger relationship because we truly spent so much time together...We also had to do a 10 days of quarantine in the house without leaving the propriety, it has been in the last part of her staying, and we made it...it has been pleasant, and Melanie made it easier.
We are sure that we shared so much that we will keep in touch, we are looking forward to go to see her hometown, and to get pictures from the Austrian winter... and to see her here with us in some nice summer in the future, we wish her all the best!
She is packing to go home, and we all already miss her,yes we can all tell it it has been a perfect match!

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