Baby sitting in Hagi mountain side, Japan

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  Descripción

  Hi everybody!
  
  I'm Lucie alias Lulu , 35 years old from France mom of Yuni almost 3 years old half Japanese child.
  I've been living in Japan for 4 years and recently broke up and moved away from Yuni's dad. She can still seen him 2 or 3 times a week and we are not divorced yet, meanwhile I start a life in the Japanese mountains all alone with Yuni. Until now she has been raised up in a community and it's a big shock for both of us to be suddenly alone.
  
  Also she doesn't want to go to the kindergarten and I don't want to force her to go, but I suddenly have no money and need to go to work. That's when I need you to take care of her, which means 4 mornings a week and some Saturdays afternoon when I'll go to play music on the streets (as a musician).
  
  I haven't started to work yet but I will have to start as soon as possible. Meanwhile I'm trying to build a airbnb business and even the house where we're living now will change before the end of the year I hope.
  
  Now it's in the very deep mountain side in Yamaguchi prefecture , Hagi city (countryside of Hagi city). We used to have a garden and grow veggies with workawayers who came before, and plants that are in pots could be brought to the new house, though it's a temporary house and I'm more focusing on working (it's gonna be a job in veggies anyway, everything's connected ^^ ) and find the new house where to welcome the people (friends, workawayers, and airbnb).
  
  If you're not afraid of being a little bit isolated (I can drive you to the city when I go and there are buses) the place is very beautiful and I desperately need your help ^^'
  Also I'm very sociable and know many people, and as a musician I play concerts so we might move quite a lot.
  
  About our life now:
  I'm living alone with my daughter.
  We eat mainly fruits nuts and veggies. No meat, sometimes fish, many eggs, no milk nor milk products, gluten free.
  We enjoy cycling together (she has a seat in front of my bicycle). You can also use it.
  She likes to watch ghibli Miyazaki movies like Totoro but I put the limit to once a day only, and I cut the phone as she was watching too much YouTube.
  We had a garden at the previous house and she likes to grow veggies.
  We often cook together, she can very well make veggie juice, energy ball and smoothie.
  She is already a very good musician and we practiced some songs together to go to play on the street.
  She also likes drawing and reading books in 3 languages: French, Japanese and English.
  She loves being with people and children as long as it's not the kindergarten ^^'
  I like to take care of her but I just can't be all alone all the time with her especially if she stops the kindergarten from now.
  
  What I expect from you, apart from being our friend:
  I'd like you to take care of Yuni around 4 hours 4 days a week, Monday Tuesday Thursday and Friday mornings, so you might have to entertain her and put her on the toilet when she asks for pee and give her some food when she is hungry (she mainly can grab food and eat by herself but she might ask you for help).
  It's also good if you can cycle my bicycle with her, or let her cycle hers.
  She likes to be outside too.
  
  On Saturdays afternoon, you might come with me to the city and just walk around with her for 1 or 2 hours while I'm playing, then I can take her back and you can enjoy the city by yourself or together or just go home together or anything you like.
  
  It might be possible that sometimes I have rehearsal in another city and again, I might ask you to go to the playground for about 1 hour with her if her dad is not available. Same if I have concert.
  
  About our home and life style:
  We will share everything except the sleeping room ^^'
  We have a normal Japanese house now and Wi-Fi is weak but we have.
  So you will sleep on futon on the tatami or in the tv room if you want more privacy. Tv works only connected to my computer for Yuni to watch Totoro or Chihiro (once a day, no more ^^' )
  We usually wake up early (between 5:30 and maximum 8:00), eat early and a bit randomly, especially dinner is often between 4:30pm and max 7pm, she doesn't take a nap (unless exception) and she sleeps between 5pm and maximum 8pm unless she had a nap, then it's a long evening until 11pm or midnight (that's why she rather doesn't take a nap...).
  
  You can go your rhythm and bring your own food but I prefer if you can more or less follow our rhythm. About meals, I'm absolutely poor now , the poorest I've ever been, but as soon as I start working I will bring back home a lot of veggies, I hope, as it will be a job on growing or harvesting veggies. So for a while I might ask you to also bring some of your own food so we can share because I can't provide everyday every meal yet...
  
  I might move to a bigger house before the end of the year with more privacy as I want to build a airbnb business in Hagi.
  
  And a little bit about me: I'm a musician but from Yuni's birth I haven't been playing that much. I love nature, I used to love travelling, hiking, cycling, meeting people... now I focus on building a nice nature home for my daughter to grow up in the city where she was born (at home) which is Hagi. I'd like to be able, one day, to grow my own fruits and veggies and share healthy food with my friends and the people. I want to build a airbnb project in the mountain side of Hagi in which I would include meals with veggies from the garden and concerts and events like yoga or ice baths at home and farmstay with animals. I'm quite hippy style I guess , and most of my friends too ^^ 10 years ago I lived in a cave for a few months in Canaria island surrounded by hippies, so I might have caught it from there ^^
  
  If you are okay with this, please don't hesitate to contact me and ask me more questions!

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  Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  Jardinería

  Cuidado de niños y juegos creativos

  Ayuda doméstica
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  Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  I can introduce you to my friends and communities who speak only Japanese. It's quite deep countryside so your experience will be totally different from Tokyo or any big Japanese city. We can also cycling or driving around to see the area which is really beautiful. Hagi is an historical city and famous for pottery. Old buildings have been saved and little neighbourhoods are very typical, like in a samurai manga.
  Tsuwano is another village close to my home in the mountains very touristic and beautiful. Also Abu is another close city where I'm looking for my next house.
  In August I can drive you to Masuda to a Japanese hippy festival where I'll play. Also in the summer time there is a lot of very traditional Japanese festivals everywhere.

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  Proyectos con niños

  En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.

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  Ayuda

  I will ask you to take care of Yuni from 8 am to 12 , 4 mornings a week while I go to work (in veggies) and also sometimes on Saturdays afternoon for 1 or 2 hours while I play music on the street. I might ask you to entertain her 1 hour sometimes when I have rehearsal or concert if her dad is not available.

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  Idiomas

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

  Este anfitrión ofrece intercambio de idiomas
  About languages, my daughter is almost 3 and already started to speak 3 languages. I used to be fluent in Spanish but I forgot a lot since I came to Japan. I can speak to you in French to help you improving. I speak French to Yuni. And I can help translating from Japanese to talk with local people.
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  Alojamiento

  We will share everything except the sleeping room ^^'
  We have a normal Japanese house now and Wi-Fi is weak but we have.
  So you will sleep on futon on the tatami or in the tv room if you want more privacy. Tv works only connected to my computer for Yuni to watch Totoro or Chihiro (once a day, no more ^^' )
  We usually wake up early (between 5:30 and maximum 8:00), eat early and a bit randomly, especially dinner is often between 4:30pm and max 7pm, she doesn't take a nap (unless exception) and she sleeps between 5pm and maximum 8pm unless she had a nap, then it's a long evening until 11pm or midnight (that's why she rather doesn't take a nap...).
  
  You can go your rhythm and bring your own food but I prefer if you can more or less follow our rhythm. Still, as I can't provide all the food at first I'd appreciate if you also bring your own food. We are gluten free no meat no milk eaters, mainly fruits veggies eggs and nuts.
  
  I might move to a bigger house before the end of the year with more privacy as I want to build a bnb business in Hagi.

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  Algo más...

  My husband and many of my friends smoke but always outside and far from my daughter. I don't smoke and it is not allowed to smoke inside the house. Otherwise you can smoke any time you want, but for places Japan has weird rules like no smoking while walking on the street for example.
  
  People around here always enjoy meeting foreigners. The area is very beautiful and I can drive you to the far places, like Akiyoshidai or Tsuwano or Kasayama. There is also a fish market and many pottery places. It is possible to rent a bicycle and just enjoy cycling in the city. My Japanese husband knows more than me about touristic places so you can also ask him for more details ^^

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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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  Podría aceptar mascotas

  We don't have pets yet but my daughter loves animals and if it is not a too big dog we have space outside too.

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  ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

  Uno

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  Horas esperadas

  Maximum 4 hours a day, 4 days a week

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