Sasha

& Celia

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We are a British family of three who are looking to spend some time exploring Portugal, make some great connections, and spend quality time together as a family.

WHO WE ARE
Celia and Sasha met abroad and spent several years in China and Japan teaching English as a foreign language. We moved back to the UK in 2017 and had our daughter a few years later, and are now looking to go abroad again in order to find a new pace of life and spend more time together. We are planning on traveling around Portugal in a motorhome/caravan, and would like to spend time volunteering in some different places to get a feel for different areas in Portugal. We’ve done volunteering in the past (when it was just us two) both through Workaway and independently.

OUR PRIOR WORKAWAY VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCES
2014 – Volunteering teaching English at a school in Nanshan (China)
April 2017 – Working on a small farm in Yamaguchi (Japan)
April 2017 – Working on a small permaculture garden in Itoshima (Japan)
November 2017 – Working on a Nature Reserve in Wales (UK)
November 2017 – Working in the garden of a private estate in Cumbria (UK)

OTHER VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCES
Celia
Young Leader in the Girls' Brigade
University Raising and Giving society
Volunteering in a Christian bookshop
Working in a charity shop
Mission Direct trip to Uganda (Africa)
Volunteering in a Japanese cat café
Facilitating a Christmas Fun Day at a Kumamoto orphanage (Japan)
Teaching English to students of all ages for one month in Shanghai (China)

Sasha
Teaching English to refugees (UK)
Working in a charity shop
Working on events in a voluntary capacity
Working in outdoor pursuits with young people
Working as a volunteer to look after parkland in the UK

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR NOW
We’re looking for projects that we can join as a family. This will include jobs that we can undertake alongside our daughter (such as teaching/facilitating at a Forest School or similar) or work where we (Celia and Sasha) can take it in turns to look after our daughter and participate in other activities. We’re happy to negotiate our hours of work depending on if we’re staying in guest accommodation or in our own accommodation.
We’re interested in farming, permaculture, animal care, and basically just being out of doors. We are keen amateur gardeners and love projects both big and small, from weeding and planting to building raised beds. We’d love to learn more about being self sufficient and growing different crops, as it’s our dream to have our own smallholding in the future. We’d also like to spend time caring for animals, and our daughter loves spending time with animals so this would be great for her. A Forest School setting which combines the life outdoors with a teaching setting would be a perfect placement for us.
We’re also keen to take part in other manual jobs, such as painting and decorating, building, manual labour, etc. We’ve undertaken this kind of voluntary work before and are keen to learn new skills. We’ve also learned about DIY from completing various improvements to our home in the UK.

OUR SKILLS
Language - We’re a multilingual family, speaking English as a first language, Sasha speaks Swedish fluently, and between us we’re intermediate in Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese.
Teaching – We’re both trained, experienced teachers. Celia (BA, TEFL) teaches EFL, Japanese, and English lit and lang, and spent a year teaching in a kindergarten. Sasha (BA, MA, PGCE, CELTA) teaches EFL, IELTS, Theory of Knowledge, Philosophy, Ethics and Religion, with significant experience as a school councillor/tutor and staff mentor and middle manager.

OUR HOBBIES
Celia – I’m a writer by trade and so love creative writing whenever I get the chance, poetry, short stories, novels, etc. I have other creative hobbies too, such as drawing, baking, knitting, crochet, sewing and reading. I’m particularly interested in Japanese fiction. I like practicing yoga and Zumba.
Sasha – I love cooking, with a keen interest in Chinese cookery in particular. I’m a keen hiker and cyclist. I like gardening and have developed skills in making fruit wines recently. I like learning about plants and foraging. I love reading and doing my own research into philosophical topics. I have an enduring love of music and love collecting and learning about music as well as singing.
Our daughter loves drawing, making art, imaginative play, being outdoors, being with animals, building games, reading and writing.

Intereses

Jardinería

Blogging

Naturaleza

Agricultura

Cultura

Arte y diseño

Animales

Música

Sostenibilidad

Política / justicia social

Yoga / bienestar

Escritura

Senderismo

Montaña

Idiomas

Libros

Ciclismo

Bricolaje y manualidades

Dibujo y pintura

Cocina y alimentación

Idiomas

Idiomas hablados
Inglés: Fluido
Swedish: Fluido
Japonés: Intermedio
Portugués: Intermedio
Chino (mandarín): Intermedio

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.

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Habilidades y conocimientos que queremos compartir o aprender

Nos interesa:  

Vida en una granja

Proyectos ecológicos

Trabajo de caridad

Cuidado de casas

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Ciertos conocimientos de:  

Jardinería

Proyectos de construcción y bricolaje

Mantenimiento general

Cuidado de animales

Proyectos artísticos

Hostelería/turismo

Ayuda con ordenadores/Internet

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Podemos enseñar:  

Cocinar para toda la familia

Ayuda doméstica

Idiomas

Compañía para ancianos

Enseñanza

Cuidado de niños y juegos creativos

Que habilidades tienes?

Sasha (Frans): teaching English to children and adults from 4 years old to 46 years old, academic writing and drafting to a masters level, journalism (reviews, published in Now Then Magazine), fluent Swedish and English, intermediate Mandarin Chinese (also reading), events management, painting and decorating, an interest in gardening and work on farms (experience with chopping down bamboo, pulling bamboo roots, planting, weeding, harvesting, mulching), forestry, house clearance, staging and DJing. I also worked in a bar for a couple of years and I love cooking, so food and drink are a bit of a passion for me.

Celia: teaching English, childcare, basic first aid, experience as a chef, experience as a cleaner, events management, academic writing and essay corrections, journalism, handicrafts (knitting, sewing), an interest in gardening and work on farms (experience with chopping down bamboo, pulling bamboo roots, planting, weeding, harvesting, mulching) and some experience in work on a building site (plastering).

Edad

41 & 35

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We are a couple, so we would like to share a room.

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  Dieta especial
  No spicy food.