Welcome to our artistic home in Sydney, NS, Canada

Detalles

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  Descripción

  Welcome to our home in Sydney, NS. We're both artists (musician and mixed media) and do regular-ish jobs (academic & social worker) to support our eclectic lives (travel, martial arts, making things). We share our home with Theodora the Freelance bulldog, Ezhara the Tortie feline, and Thor the Savanah cat. They are the household bosses and will insist on visiting you. If you are a traveller you'll have found your community in Sydney - we're typically off exploring elsewhere in the world 2-3 months a year. I've travelled to all the continents except Antartica (someday) and have lived in France, South Africa, and Australia.
  
  Our property is a 1912 four-square heritage house that is way too large for us but people had huge families back in the day.... We're almost finished construction on a suite in the basement level and that's where you might come in with some help...

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  Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  Práctica de idiomas

  Construcción y bricolaje

  Cuidado de animales

  Ayuda doméstica

  Mantenimiento general

  Cuidado de casas y mascotas
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  Intereses

  

  Vegetariano o vegano

  

  Idiomas

  

  Jardinería

  

  Cocina y alimentación

  

  Dibujo y pintura

  

  Carpintería

  

  Cuidado de plantas

  

  Música

  

  Bricolaje y manualidades

  

  Libros

  

  Arte y diseño

  

  Arquitectura

  

  Animales

  

  Fitness

  

  Naturaleza

  

  Yoga / bienestar

  

  Ciclismo

  

  Senderismo
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  Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  Mark teaches martial arts (HEMA and Kageryu) and bass (jazz is his great love). Alison travels, does mixed media art, architecture, used to teach yoga, writes, gardens, and makes/builds anything and everything. If you're interested in design we'll talk!

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  Ayuda

  While what we're looking depends on the season and weather, the assistance will primarily be property maintenance, gardening, errand-running, household cleaning, and painting/construction help in finishing the basement suite and maybe the attic space. This will include painting (interior/exterior weather dependent), yard/garden maintenance, gardening help, staining the soon-to-be backyard deck. Maybe using a drill to put screws into plywood and deck boards. If you have very minimal carpentry skills or the confidence to learn (ex: straight cuts on a chop saw and using a nail gun) even better.

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  Idiomas

  Idiomas hablados
  Inglés: Fluido
  Español: Principiante
  Francés: Principiante
  Japonés: Principiante

  Este anfitrión ofrece intercambio de idiomas
  I'm currently working on getting my A2 level french to B2 so very welcome for a language exchange.
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  Alojamiento

  You'll have our guest room and a bathroom all to yourself, both of which are located on the second floor of our home. That floor also has our bedroom and ensuite as well as my yoga room. We have a giant kitchen for you to cook in. You'll be responsible for your own cooking and meals because we're all over the place with mealtimes. We will add your items to our regular grocery orders. We're also happy to share what we cook if eating schedules align.
  
  We are strict vegetarians so no dead-things cooking in the kitchen please or in the grocery order. We do not care if you want to bring-in pre-prepared meals with meat in them (e.g. if you want to order a pepperoni pizza).

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  Algo más...

  We are in a walkable location to Sydney's "downtown" (if you're from an urban centre you'll understand why I put downtown in quotes), it's about a ten minute walk from our house to the ocean/harbour boardwalk. Sydney's public transit is terrible but does exist with the bus stop a block away. We have two electric bikes you're welcome to borrow anytime.
  
  We're located about an hours drive from Cape Breton's Cabot Trail and there are lots of outdoor activities around us on the Eastern side of Cape Breton Island as well. We have an all-wheel drive SUV you can borrow on days Mark doesn't need it to get to work (he does approximately 14 shifts a month, the other 16 days are up for grabs) if you want to do some island exploration.
  
  We are both neurodivergent and pretty relaxed about people living how they want to live, but no cigarette smoking anywhere near the house, I have massive allergies. We're 420 friendly and not fussed about vaping inside. If you like rigid rules and schedules this is not the work-away for you. If you do not like animals this is not the work-away for you.
  
  Kindness, flexibility, and accountability in everything.

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  Un poco más de información

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    Acceso a Internet

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    Acceso a Internet limitado

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    Tenemos animales

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    Somos fumadores

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    Puede alojar familias

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  Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

  I work from home. My internet is faaaaaast and reliable.

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  Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas

  We've got a driveway that goes into the backyard. If your rig can travel on roads we've got space for it.

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  Podría aceptar mascotas

  We love animals!

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  ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

  Dos

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  Mis animales / mascotas

  Thor

  Ezhara

  Theodora

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