Isabel

Espagne
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Information du profil

Information de voyage
Actuellement, je suis
en voyage
Description
M e gustan los animales, el mar ,la naturaleza y soy una enfermera jubilada con muchas ganas de aprender ingles y en el camino encontrar gente maravillosa
Centres d’intérêt
Nature
Activités en plein air
Randonnée
Ferme
Jardinage
Animaux
Animaux de compagnie
Langues
Livres
Films et télé
Photographie
Cuisine et alimentation
Soin des plantes
Compétences et connaissances que j'aimerais partager ou apprendre
Ça m'intéresse :
Jardinage
Aider dans une ferme
S’occuper des animaux
Pratique des langues
J'ai des connaissances :
Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs
Tenir compagnie à une pers. âgée
Préparer les repas / cuisiner pour la famille
Aider à la maison
Je peux apprendre aux autres :
Enseignement
Quelles sont vos compétences ?
Soy enfermera jubilada me manejo muy bien en cuidado de niños, cocina, jardinería, me encantan los animales y tengo un perrito que me gustaría llevar conmigo, pesa 5 kilos,
Estoy abierta a ayudar en cualquier cosa que sea necesaria , me gustaría mejorar mi ingles que es de un nivel bajo, puedo enseñar español
Langues
Langues parlées
Espagnol: Courant
Anglais: Débutant
Plus de détails sur les langues qui m'intéressent
quiero aprender ingles ,puedo enseñar español
Trouver un partenaire de langue
Âge
64
Autres infos...
me gustan todo tipo de juegos de mesa, hacer senderismo ,el cine , cualquier cosa divertida y conocer cosas nuevas
Informations complémentaires
- Fumeur
- Permis de conduire
- Allergies
  no
- Régime alimentaire spécial
  no

Feedback

10.06.2022

Laissé par l'hôte (Help care for our dogs and ...) pour le workawayer (Isabel)

Sadly we ended up having a very bad experience with Isabel. She's a nice lady and did some lovely things like help two of our dogs who had wounds and she introduced us to a product which really helps to heal animals and people. She also cooked some very nice meals for us and was conscientious in her desire to learn how to care for our animals,… read more which is what we needed her to do.

Unfortunately however it turned out that although Isabel likes animals and was happy to spend time with them and help them her goal in coming to do Workaway with us was to help us in exchange for learning English. She'd said from the start that she wanted to improve her English and we were all very happy to speak to her in English while going about daily tasks and doing activities with her. But when she arrived she really struggled to understand us and ultimately preferred to speak to us in Spanish. I offered to sit down with her and help her with pronunciation and understanding of spoken English. I spent several hours doing this over the 10 days she was here and in car journeys and on dog walks we practised English pronunciation and learnt vocabulary.

Isabel knew that my son and I were due to go away in the second half of June which was one of the main reasons we needed a Workawayer to come. My partner works long hours and has a heavy workload when he gets home and can't look after the animals on his own. The trip we were due to do required a lot of planning and the English tuition that Isabel required, contributed to me being very behind on the planning. 4 days before the trip she asked if I could give her an English tuition session and I explained that I wouldn't have time since I needed to plan the trip.

She said that the deal was that I would teach her English for 14 days in exchange for her looking after our animals for 14 days (this had never been my understanding). She said that she wasn't interested in being in Asturias, nor in free accommodation or food, only in learning English. I explained that that wasn't how Workaway worked, that normally people help out in exchange for accommodation and food and an exchange of life experiences and so on. I explained that most people who come to us do so because of their love of animals and desire to spend time in Asturias. I explained that if I'd known from the start that she expected me to give her private English tuition on a regular basis I would never have been able to agree to it since I just don't have time. I'd anticipated speaking lots of English to her while we went about daily activities and that for many people would have been a very helpful way of improving their spoken English.

In the end she left after 10 days and 4 days before our trip. As a result we don't have anyone to help care for the animals and have had to cancel our trip.

Today on day 10 she'd finally got the hang of caring for the animals and I would have been able to let her do tasks on her own. Until now I've been explaining how to do everything which has been time consuming which is fine and I understand that for some people it takes longer than others, but it means, in effect, that we've had very little help.

In summary this experience wasn't a good one for us. I think our profile clearly shows that we are not an English language teaching service and I think Isabel has really misunderstood the spirit of Workaway. To leave us just when she was able to start helping and knowing that it was going to lead to us cancelling our trip was very upsetting.

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