Join our friendly family in Reggio Emilia, Italy

Infos

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  Description

  Hello Workaway traveller!
  
  We are looking for a loving, patient, English speaking workawayer willing to live with us for for a few weeks in the summer . We would like them to spend some hours with our two children (8 and 10 years old) in an open, multicultural, and welcoming atmosphere, while also helping them to remain fluent in English. We are Italian and returned to Italy 7 years ago after having lived abroad (USA and UK) for 12 years.
  We are looking for someone loving and warm, who adores children and wants to become part of our family.
  
  We have big families and lots of friends, and love to have people around.
  Our house is located in a village just outside the city centre of Reggio Emilia, in the Emilia Romagna region in North Italy, strategically located to easily reach Milan, Florence, and Rome with high speed train.
  The house is close to our family's farm producing the famous Parmigiano Reggiano cheese.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Pratique d’une langue

  Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Films et télé

  

  Musique

  

  Dessin et peinture

  

  Architecture

  

  Technologie

  

  Événements/vie sociale

  

  Politique/justice sociale

  

  Culture

  

  Jardinage

  

  Soin des plantes

  

  Livres

  

  Randonnée

  

  Nature

  

  Plage
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  Our traveller will experience Italian family life in North Italy. They will have time to travel and to learn Italian. They will have half day free, as all the evenings and weekends. Beside looking after the children, they will expected to share with us the setting the table before dinner, loading the dishwasher after dinner (if they are having dinner with us), keeping the house in order.
  
  The house is located in Roncadella, a small village just outside the city centre of Reggio Emilia, in the Emilia Romagna region in North Italy (closest airport Bologna). From the house it takes 10 minutes by car and 30 minutes by bus to reach the historical city centre of Reggio Emilia. The high speed train from Reggio Emilia’s train station takes 45 minute to Milan, 1 hour to Florence, 2 hours and 1/2 to Rome.
  
  If interested, our traveller will be exposed to country life as our house is very close to dad family's farm, which produces milk used to prepare the famous Parmigiano Reggiano cheese.
  At the same time, they will be able to easily reach the historical city centre of Reggio Emilia, which has a very rich cultural life (theatre and ballet) and beautiful shops. If she needs a student Visa, she will need to attend an Italian school which is located in Reggio's city centre.
  
  In addition, Reggio Emilia is famous in the world for the "Reggio Emilia educational approach" for preschool and primary education. Therefore if our traveller is interested in pedagogy she will have plenty of opportunities to be exposed to this philosophy.

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  Aide « au pair »

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  Projets impliquant des enfants

  Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.

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  Aide

  The traveller will have to look after our children for a few hours a day from Monday to Friday. She/he will always have the weekend free but of course we will be happy if they want to stay with us during the weekend as well. We will be away from home on holiday from 16th to 26th August.
  
  Essentials:
  Some previous experience in playing with/entartaining children
  Warm, compassionate, patient, and willing to have fun with children
  Native English speaker or perfectly fluent in English
  Generous and sincere
  
  Desiderables:
  Able to play an instrument (we have a piano) and/or to paint, interested in art
  Sporty as our children love football/soccer and volleyball
  Love for nature and country life
  Feminist and careful in not fostering gender and racial biases
  Interest in Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and the Italian food
  
  
  MORE ABOUT US:
  Our girl is cuddly and exhaustingly chatty. She knows exactly what she wants and is extremely determined. She loves playing volleyball and all sort of sports. Our boy is very talkative, loves football/soccer and all sort of sports, but also likes reading and singing. Mum Giovanna is a 49-yo neurologist and neuroscientist. She works full-time as clinical academic at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Daddy Davide is a 48-yo enterprise architect currently working as a civil servant for Reggio Emilia city council.
  We have a lot of friends and we love to invite those who live locally for dinner and those who live abroad to stay with us during their holidays. We both have very large families who live locally, with several nephews and nieces aged 18 to 30. We love travelling, cinema, and music. Dad loves sports. Mum is an avid reader.
  Above all, we love people and believe in the power of travelling as a way to contribute creating peace in the world. We would like for our children to become compassionate, open-minded, and respectful of diversity.

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  Langues parlées

  Anglais: Courant
  Italien: Courant

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  Hébergement

  The traveller will have her private large bedroom with ensuite bathroom (shower, no bath tube) on our ground-floor flat (250 square mt) in a renovated farmhouse. She will be expected to clean her own room and bathroom and keep it in order (we have help for cleaning for the rest of the house). There is a large garden.
  
  The traveller will be be able to reach the historical city centre of Reggio Emilia in 10 minute driving, 30 minutes by public transportation, or about 20 minutes by bike (it is a long bike ride but our previous au pairs have enjoyed doing it).
  
  We will be happy to cook for everybody including our traveller, but they will be expected to help in setting up the table and cleaning after the meals (as everybody else in the house)

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  Autres infos...

  We have hosted six wonderful Workaway travellers: we do like to keep contact! We also used to have baby sitters and au pairs when living in London (we were always told that we are super-easy to work with ;-).
  We are very social and will be happy to introduce our traveller to our friends and families, and invite her to our social gatherings.
  Our traveller will have time to do online working or studying in the mornings. She will always have the weekend free to travel and explore the surroundings, but of course we will be happy for her to stay with us during the weekend too if she prefers so

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  Informations complémentaires

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    Accès Internet

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    Accès Internet limité

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    Nous avons des animaux

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    Nous sommes fumeurs

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    Familles bienvenues

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  Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

  Good WiFi, fibre based connection

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  They can park in the courtyard (no garage, just open air)

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Un

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  Mes animaux

  Dora

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