Pablo

Información de viaje

Ahora estoy

Descripción

About me:

My name is Pablo, Im 22 and I am from Mexico City.
For many of us choosing a profession is like standing in a cross road, for some in life it may come earlier and for others later but eventually the time comes to everybody, for me it came in the spring of 2021 after finishing high school. My high school was not what one can call a “regular high school” (see more info below), I had gained experience both in and out of the classroom and something didn’t quite fit for me to start University right away, I needed to learn more about the world in order to have a clue into how I could fit within it. It was then that a good friend suggested me taking a few months off as a workawayer, I chose Europe because my father´s family came to Mexico from Spain in the Spanish Civil War, and well, the rest is history….
During my 14 months as a workawayer in Europe I had the good fortune of visiting beautiful places and to meet even more wonderful friends. Being a person raised in the city I often planned my trip to live in places surrounded by nature, greatly because of this I got to experience first hand the effects that the climate shift is having in the weather and the global heat cycle around the world, for the time I was in Cervinia (Italy) for the ski season most locals agreed that it was the season with highest temperatures and less snow fall in more than 20 years and, when I arrived to the Norwegian island Vannøya (400km above the arctic circle) temperatures were soaring around 28-30 degrees for at least a week (10-15º C anomaly). For this reason I decided in fall 2022 to enroll at University to study Chemical Engineering. Here I have found a new passion for chemistry, a field that has shed a light of hope within me to many of the global environmental problems that our world is facing today. After 2 years of studying the fundamental principles of physics and chemistry ( and a lot of reading) I have finally started to see a light of opportunity for action in the challenging times we have ahead of us.

For this summer I want to take a break from the city to be in the mountains (air has been very polluted this last few weeks in Mexico City), I have plenty of physical energy for work, travel, make new friends and to above all, enjoy.

Pablo

Intereses

Idiomas

Idiomas hablados
Inglés: Fluido
Español: Fluido
Ruso: Principiante

Más información sobre tus intereses idiomáticos
Este workawayer ha indicado que está interesado en compartir su idioma o aprender otro. Ponte en contacto con él directamente para hablar sobre ello.

Buscar un colega de idioma

Habilidades y conocimientos que quiero compartir o aprender

Me interesa:  

Cuidado de animales

---

Ciertos conocimientos de:  

Jardinería

Proyectos de construcción y bricolaje

Compañía para ancianos

Mantenimiento general

Cocinar para toda la familia

Vida en una granja

Ayuda doméstica

Hostelería/turismo

Trabajo de caridad

Idiomas

---

Puedo enseñar:  

Proyectos ecológicos

Proyectos artísticos

Ayuda con ordenadores/Internet

Enseñanza

Que habilidades tienes?

I did my school years in the Waldorf school system, here learning is thought of as a Journey where the experience is a fundamental element in the process. In waldorf schools students apart from regular curriculum study geometry and human anatomy with clay, they learn wood carving, water color, different knitting techniques, horticulture and compost making.

There is a government program in Mexico which allows any person to apply for a 1 time highschool exam, if passed, this exam is equivalent to a 3 year normal highschool education scheme. I used this opportunity to make a sort of tailor made high school that allowed me to learn things I wouldn't have time to learn in a regular education system. I learned carpentry and joinery, volunteered in the fire breach brigades during the dry season in the mountains near Tepoztlán (around 1:30 hr drive form Mexico City), learned the fundamentals of earth building techniques (adobe, tapial, bajareque) with a specialist from la Universidad Autónoma de México (UAM), and I worked as an artist assistant for a painter who was making a large scale project called "La Nueva Clonación". I had a tutor with whom apart form studying history, geography and other school subjects we went to learn lithography and traditional cotton paper making in a workshop in the province of Veracruz called "La Ceiba Gráfica". I helped my mother in a fund raising campaign for donation of backpacks with water tanks to the local forest fire brigades in Tepoztlán that are used for forest conservation and fire prevention, my job was to manage the finances and to find good providers to buy the backpacks from.

I play the violin since 8 years old, Ive always studied with private lessons but I have also been part a couple of youth orchestras as playing in music with a group is an exercise I greatly enjoy. At the moment Im not part of any music organization but I keep meeting my violin teacher Irina Pogodina with whom we are currently studying solo violin works from Bach, Paganini and Wieniawski as well as the Kabalevsky violin concerto.

Workaway has allowed me to get work experience from many different contexts. I started doing farm work picking cherries and cleaning weeds in a small mountain farm in Spain and later I worked feeding and taking care of cattle in Sicily near Palermo. I worked for an art academy in Florence doing "handyman" type work (painting walls, cleaning, basic carpentry, bike fixing,...) as they were moving in a new building.

After spending time in Florence I travelled to the Alps to workaway in a small but very busy mountain lodge hotel. Here, during the summer months my main tasks were going hiking with guests (because I knew the trails) during the mornings and coming back to the hotel around 4 pm to serve dinner or to help in the kitchen. During the winter months tasks got more diverse: around 1/3 of my time was spent in the car driving guests to and from the airport in Milan and the ski lift, we served breakfasts and dinners every ay, did groceries, room cleaning, chek-ins, basic maintenance and occasionally gave ski lessons to guests that didn't know the place or needed help with their skiing. I worked here for six weeks in summer and for the whole 2021-2022 ski season.

In Oslo I helped a lady fixing a basement apartment that she wanted to rent, we removed the carpets in exchange for a pre-fabricated wooden floor, scrubbed and polished the clay floor in the bathroom and kitchen, and gave a hand of paint to where was needed. The last workaway job I took was in an island in the north of Norway where I helped fixing insulation as he there was a house in the property that needed new insulation ass well as exterior wooden wall cladding.

After 14 months in Europe as a workawayer I came back home to Mexico City to start my bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering, Im currently finishing the second year. I recently got a partial scholarship to study in exchange for work in University (Workaway spirit manifesting itself again), I give beginner/ intermediate level violin lessons as work. Last year I got a professional camera to digitize my grandpa´s slides which I have been using this semester to do (mostly still) photography work (portraits, house photography and digitizing canvas paintings), extra income that allows me to cover around 85-90% of my tuition.

Edad

22

Algo más...

I am Mexican and Spanish national and up to date with Covid vaccines.

Más información

• 

  Fumador

• 

  Permiso de conducir

• 

  Alergia
  no

• 

  Dieta especial
  no