Help our family with gardening and daily life in a small village near Constantine, Switzerland

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  Description

  Hello ! We're a family of 4, Marc, Ana and our 2 children Kyra and Eliah (and Charlotte our cat). We are both self employed : Marc is a photographer and I'm a naturopathe.
  We'd love our kids to discover many cultures and ways of living thanks to our hosts, our travels and adventures. Kyra and Eliah both go to school now, so there is not so much babysitting to do anymore but they'll always enjoy someone to play with !
  We're very much into relaxed local/healthy eating and living. We've started our little garden, learning how to grow things in a permaculture way.
  We have many different projects that you can help us with, depending on when you come : it goes from cooking to flooring, or computer work to cleaning, gardening and/or babysitting..! :)

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Pratique d’une langue

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison

  Entretien général

  Aide informatique/internet
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Événements/vie sociale

  

  Culture

  

  Vie en van

  

  Dev. durable

  

  Dev. personnel

  

  Soin des plantes

  

  Musique

  

  Photographie

  

  Yoga / bien-être

  

  Nature

  

  Fitness

  

  Camping

  

  Sports d’hiver

  

  Voile / bateau

  

  Montagne

  

  Plage

  

  Sports nautiques

  

  Activités en plein air

  

  Randonnée
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  We love travelling and meeting people although we're trying to get our CO2 emissions down now, so travelling differently. We try not to fly anymore.
  We speak a few languages. Our kids are a lot of fun (of course can make you very tired, but objectively adorable :)). They only speak fluent French, although we're hoping they can start learning other languages. We'd be happy to teach you some French during meals for eg.
  We love nature, and Switzerland, and will be happy to share who we are with you!
  If you need any advice, we'll be happy to help if we can.
  Our place is in a small village (so little public transport) but central in Switzerland and close to a motorway, 5km out of a little town and shops.

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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

  Depending on when you come, we'll need help with cooking, keeping the house clean, fixing things in and around the house, rebuilding a terrasse, gardening or photo editing ...
  In July we also need help with looking after our children (age 10 and 8) during their holidays.
  
  Eliah still comes back from school for lunch and goes back to school in the afternoons. (His sister now stays in school all day). Lunch is the main meal at our place. Cooking is a big part of the help we're looking for. Its also a great way for us to discover different (food) cultures and usually a nice moment to share. If you like cooking food with healthy products our family would love your help!
  
  During school holidays (mainly July) or after school days our kids love someone to spend some time with. They really like playing with their friends outside so unless we're working, there is less babysitting involved now that the kids are a bit older. But Kyra and Eliah both love company, creative projects, playing games, playing in the garden, sports, cooking, legos, and discovering new things and your interests (there is nothing like someone passionate about something). Eliah still needs to practice to loose :)
  
  We'd really like our children to learn more Spanish and English, so looking after them and teaching them some new words would be amazing (despite them not always being very motivated to put in the effort :))
  They could teach you some French of course as they are always happy to talk !
  
  We also want to organize different parts of the house and outdoors, so all kind of builders and gardeners are more than welcome! We've done a lot of work on our garden and we'd love some help for our small permaculture project. That could be gardening, fruits picking, watering, etc The fruit picking and preparing them to be dried or frozen goes more or less from May to October depending on the fruit and the weather :)
  
  Marc also needs help editing and ordering photos (mostly in April, May, June, September and October). So anyone interested in photo editing or happy to work on a computer could be of big help!

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Anglais: Courant
  Français: Courant
  Allemand: Intermédiaire
  Espagnol: Intermédiaire

  Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
  We would really like our children to learn more Spanish and English. One of their grandmothers speaks Spanish to them but they don't see her enough to actually be able to talk... They don't speak English at all but know a few words from movies :) We all speak French at home and would be happy to help you with your practice! We're usually all home for meals and thats seems like a good moment to share our language. The kids are great with teaching languages as they use more simple vocabulary and love talking, so of course playing with them is also a good option to improve your French.
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  Hébergement

  We live in a renovated farmhouse and have a relatively independant room for our workaway guest. It gives a lot of privacy if wanted. (We both work in the house we live in. And the guest room is just next to where we work, so its important not to make too much noise in the room when we're in our office, keep the bathroom clean and close the doors in silence :)).
  We live in a small typical Swiss village and have a garden that we share with our neighbours (we're friends).
  Good food is very important to us. We cook fresh food every day (once a day) and are happy to do vegetarian or vegan if wanted and would really love to discover your food and ways of cooking.

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  Autres infos...

  We have a spare bike to get you to a little beach close to where we live or to the forest near by. The village we live in is very small so there is not much public transport (a few buses but not many). But 5 km away from our little village is a small town, Avenches, famous for its Roman ruins, where you can get transport to just about anywhere. Public transport is very expensive in Switzerland. A lot of our hosts use hitchhiking and are able to explore the country that way. Or with the bike, you can also get to Avenches easily (bus and train station) in about 20' bike ride, and then get transport from there. Or do it all on the bike or walking for a more sporty version !

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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

  There is a little desk in the room, so you can work somewhere quiet. Or you're welcome to sit a the kitchen table if you prefer. We're happy to give you more info if needed.

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  We can organize a parking place very close to our house if you let us know in time.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Un

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  Mes animaux

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