Experience a slow life in the countryside on the mountain near Nagano, Japan

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  Description

  I am Qingru(you can call me Chin), with my husband- Pierre and my son-Inen, three of us are living on the mountain, a beautiful place in Japanese countryside, trying to live the life as simple as we wished.
  I was born and grew up in China, came to Japan to study architecture, after a few years working in Tokyo, I quit everything, started the self-discovered journey around world.
  In Burma, I met Pierre during a volunteer activity, then we decided to discover the world together, specially when we were stuck in Tokyo due to Covid-19, we have built a mobile house with recycling materials, and lived in that 2 square meters on the road with few belongings,at the end, we have made and distributed a documentary by ourselves.
  After all the traveling experiences, we settled down in Ooka, where has beautiful nature but forgotten by modern people.It’s quite inconvenient for most people, but we are enjoying to live with what we have, and creat things by our own hands.
  In the first year, we already had grew and harvested rice and vegetables for ourselves, then Inen arrived, joined us.
  Our life didn’t change so much, now three of us are still living in Kominka(the traditional house), which was abandoned for 8 years, without gas and water systems. Both of us are repairing the house, doing gardening, cooking, crafting… make our life as simple as we can.
  
  About our lifestyle
  •We cook by wood everyday in the outdoor kitchen, we only have two meals brunch around 11am and dinner around 5pm. A main work will be chopping wood as well depends on the season.
  •the water is from top of the village, pure spring water, for drinking and daily use, so all the soap shampoo, we use natural ones to avoid the pollution for the environment
  •we don’t have hot water boiler, we have solar cooker and solar heater for hot water, so we can’t take a shower or bath everyday if it’s raining
  •we try to not consume too much electricity because of nuclear power disaster in fukushima. Basically we have few electric devices: one phone, one laptop, a small refrigerator, a semiautomatic washing machine and sometimes vacuum and blender.
  •there is compost toilet, and Fuki leaves instead of toilet paper, Pierre cleans it each 2 or 3 days. You may also help with, to face and deal with your own pee and poo.
  •People say we are like an old couple even we are the youngest ones in the village, because our life rhythm almost follow the sun, go to bed when it’s dark, around 8pm. Get up around 6am when we feel the first sunlight. Then mostly spend the time in the field, specially Pierre.
  •both of us don’t work normally, but Pierre started a handyman service recently, mainly we go to help the elderly neighbors, you also can join if you would love to

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Projets artistiques

  Pratique d’une langue

  Jardinage d'entretien

  Projets DIY créatifs

  Aide dans une ferme

  Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Vie en van

  

  Dev. durable

  

  Dev. personnel

  

  Ferme

  

  Écriture

  

  Soin des plantes

  

  Photographie

  

  Musique

  

  Langues

  

  Auto-stop

  

  Jardinage

  

  Dessin et peinture

  

  Bricolage / artisanat

  

  Cuisine et alimentation

  

  Menuiserie

  

  Art et design

  

  Architecture

  

  Yoga / bien-être

  

  Activités en plein air

  

  Nature

  

  Montagne

  

  Randonnée
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  We are a family with multicultural mixed with western and eastern, we grow and eat rices, the same time making bread in the earth oven.
  Sometimes we were worried for the future, our next generation, eventually it’s better take the action than just think, the solution is how we live the life, by our own, without consuming too much nature resources, and respecting all the living beings.
  This is the most important thing we would love to share with our son-Inen, and you.

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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

  During your stay,it depends on the season, let’s share whatever we can together, for example:
  *nature farming
  *DIY
  *cooking by fire
  *waving basket by plants
  *sowing and knitting
  *painting
  *natural dying
  *making Koji and miso
  *laughing
  *playing with Inen
  *multi-languages exchange
  *chilling in the nature

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  Langues parlées

  Français: Courant
  Japonais: Courant
  Chinois (mandarin): Courant
  Anglais: Intermédiaire
  Espagnol: Intermédiaire

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  Hébergement

  There is extra rooms in the house, traditional tatami room, you will sleep on the floor with futon, a Japanese way,
  Or, the mobile house, a small cabin in front of the house, in the garden, tiny but very cozy.

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  Autres infos...

  We don’t want to set many rules here.
  Just a few points we want to explain in advance
  •we basically don’t eat meat, but sometimes we will when we receive deer from the hunter, if you want to eat meat, you can just mange by yourself
  •we go to bed and get up early, you are free to do whatever you want, just please keep quiet for our kid
  •the shop, station all are far from where we live, it’s necessary to go out by car, we can give you a ride or pickup when we are available
  •we don’t have working schedule for everyday, if you are tired, go to rest, if you are into something, let’s work together fully as if time doesn’t exist, it’s very flexible
  •Pierre is a hand worker, it’s not possible to stop him once he focus on something. So sometimes work with him will be physical hard, but later sleep deeper.

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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

  Cet hôte a indiqué qu’il aimait accueillir les digital nomads.

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  Cet hôte a de la place pour les vans.

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  Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Deux

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  Mes animaux

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