Hannah

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Hello!

My name is Hannah. I am 25, British and am currently travelling in Panama with my girlfriend Alina.

I left my home in Surrey, South England 6 years ago to go exploring in New Zealand for a couple of months. Those couple of months turned into 15 months, and since then I have been to the Netherlands, Belgium, Fiji, France, Spain, Malta, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Panama.

I love to travel, but I also enjoy my country and often go back to visit my awesome family and the cabin I built (photo below!).

I love adventures! A couple of years ago I spent a month unicycling unsupported down the length of England...a very silly but worthwhile trip which raised money for a Foodbank!
In the summer of 2022 my fabulous girlfriend Alina and I completed the first part of our project to cross Europe using a different, unmotorised mode of transport through every country we crossed. A very silly but fun trip! We plan to continue next summer.

I come from a large family (I have 7 sisters) and was homeschooled, which means I am very used to living with others and helping out with whatever needs doing. I love learning new languages, playing the piano and the accordion, travelling and exploring, going on bike/unicycle rides and camping. I can also be arty at times! I am an easygoing and sociable person and love chatting but also really appreciate a little time and space to myself every now and then :D
Centres d’intérêt
Montagne
Nature
Camping
Auto-stop
Sports d'aventure
Cyclisme
Activités en plein air
Randonnée
Menuiserie
Langues
Dessin et peinture
Bricolage / artisanat
Musique
Végétarien ou végan
LGBT+
Langues parlées
Anglais: Courant
Français: Courant
Allemand: Intermédiaire
Espagnol: Intermédiaire
Italien: Débutant
Compétences et connaissances que j'aimerais partager ou apprendre
Ça m'intéresse :
Jardinage
Aider dans une ferme
Éco-projets
Tenir compagnie à une pers. âgée
J'ai des connaissances :
Bricolage et projets de construction
Aider à la maison
Accueil / tourisme
Travail associatif
Projets artistiques
Enseignement
Je peux apprendre aux autres :
Langues
Quelles sont vos compétences ?
As far as work is concerned, I'm very happy to try my hand at just about anything. I like to do things well and thoroughly so I will ask questions, but am also capable of using initiative when necessary. Recently, my jobs have been focussed on carpentry/construction, and I plan to do an carpentry apprenticeship soon.

Paid work experience so far...
-Administration in a Foodbank office
-Reception staff in a youth hostel
-Waitress/barista/kitchen hand in a café
-Floor staff in a bookshop and a charity shop
-EDI in a kiwifruit packhouse
-Cleaner in a hostel
-Au pair (live in nanny) for two families
-Supermarket customer service
-Waitress in a bar
-Carpenter's assistant

Other than that, although cooking is not my favourite thing to do, I did cook meals for my au pair host families, so I am no stranger in the kitchen.
I have been a workaway member before but my account was disactivated as I hadn't used it for over a year - my twelve previous experiences have been in:

-The Netherlands (helping a yoga teacher to rebuild her shed and decorate her studio)

-New Zealand (in the countryside looking after 4 energetic homeschooled boys and gardening)

-Spain (helping to renovate an old house/garden in La Coruna,
then helping to run a hostel on the Camino de Santiago near León)

-Germany (cooking, waitressing and cleaning in a wellness hotel near Luneburg; taking care of many different kinds of animals on a farm/education centre near Frankfurt; then renovating a farmhouse in the Black Forest)

-Denmark (mainly construction work as well as cooking/cleaning in Asnæs)

-France (renovating an old house in les Vosges, then helping to build a treehouse in Brittany)

-Italy (reception/cleaning in a hostel)

-Panama (building a platform on the back of a sailboat in Bocas Del Toro)
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Informations complémentaires
- Fumeur
- Permis de conduire
- Allergies
  Penicillin
- Régime alimentaire spécial
  Vegetarian

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23 mai 2023

Laissé par l'hôte (Help build a beachfront ...) pour le workawayer (Hannah)

We were so grateful that Hannah and Alina found us. They had a passion for treehouses that made them a perfect match for our scene. One the first day, 5 year old Zephyr and I took them to the river for a swim. They told me that our spot was a dream and they immediately began planning their next outing. they adventured all over our area, explored… read more

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31 mars 2023

Laissé par le workawayer (Hannah) pour l'hôte (Help me starting a green ...)

We had an awesome time at Carolina and Ingrid's hostel!
Our work - building a set of wooden lockers for a dorm - was really good fun, and although there were a few hiccups with the wrong wood being delivered, Carolina and Ingrid (and Ivan!) were always immediately on hand to get any problems sorted so that we could continue with our project asap.… read more

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16 mars 2023

Laissé par le workawayer (Hannah) pour l'hôte (Enjoy life aboard a sailboat ...)

What a couple of weeks! Thank you, Nele and Juan, for taking us on board (pun definitely intended) at such short notice. We had an awesome two weeks of boat life and still miss 'our' little boat where we could jump into the sea from our doorstep!

Work here was very relaxed. Not much was required of us, and after a few days of working together… read more with us, Nele and Juan left us to continue with our project alone. Working hours and time off were very flexible, and we were able to work our 15h/week whenever we wanted....almost! We learned that we had to be very flexible when working on a boat:
we couldn't easily move our project inside when it rained, and if there was no sun we couldn't charge the batteries for the power tools... So our work hours depended a lot on weather conditions and how fully charged the batteries were.
Those were not the only things that made working on a boat challenging! The wooden platform we built for getting on and off the boat definitely didn't end up being the masterpiece we wanted it to be 😅
Making a straight cut on a rocking boat is already a challenge, but sitting in a little dinghy trying to undo bolts underneath the platform on the project boat without dropping tools in the sea...oops!
Our hosts were very understanding though, and didn't make a fuss about our mistakes or lost tools. Both of them were very kind and knowledgeable about living on a boat. They're quite quiet people and appreciate their workawayers being independent. Sometimes we found the communication a little bit difficult - maybe because a lot of it was through messages (the boats are too far apart to yell 😆) or because we were very dependent on them to solve all our little problems with the project.
However, none of this was a big problem and we still really enjoyed working for/with them :D

As for the accomodation: We LOVED 'our' little boat and massively enjoyed this introduction to boat life :)
It is good to bear in mind that you need to be independent here: You'll spend lots of time on the boat by yourself, you need to supply your own food and water, there's no fridge or shower etc. So very basic camping on water (with a gas cooker) :) With the boat's little dinghy you can get to the Marina (15min away) where you can get drinking water (25c/gallon), tap water or a shower ($2pp), or the town within ca. 30min with shops, cafés, etc. We also used the dinghy to row to nearby snorkeling spots (i.e. two sunken boats). Apart from that we mostly spent time on the boat - swimming, coming up with systems to collect rainwater, exploring bioluminescence at night, visiting the nearby floating bar, watching the pretty night sky, watching other ships and planes coming and going...it was great fun!

Nele and Juan - thank you again for making this awesome time possible, and especially for taking us in with just a day's notice when our other plans didn't work out :) Good luck with your project boat(s)!

Alina and Hannah

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23 mai 2023

Laissé par l'hôte (Help build a beachfront ...) pour le workawayer (Hannah)

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31 mars 2023

Laissé par le workawayer (Hannah) pour l'hôte (Help me starting a green ...)

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16 mars 2023

Laissé par le workawayer (Hannah) pour l'hôte (Enjoy life aboard a sailboat ...)

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8 févr. 2023

Laissé par l'hôte (Treehouse and woodland ...) pour le workawayer (Hannah)

Hannah and Alina came to us last month (January) and were superb!
They both have great technical skills with carpentry powertools and are both both creative and inventive. When I said they were welcome to give me their own ideas and opinions, they did...and they were always constructive, innovative and very much appreciated. After the first day,… read more

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11 déc. 2020

Laissé par le workawayer (Hannah) pour l'hôte (Help with building and live ...)

WELL. It's been 9 months since I left this beautiful house in Leinstetten. I've left the review so long to write not only because I am a master procrastinator but also because I really wanted to write it PROPERLY.

I stayed with Johannes & family for 6 months; Autumn through to Spring, and I can honestly say that those were some of the most… read more educational, thought provoking and fulfilling months of my life! I enjoyed the time and learned so much more than just traditional building techniques. Although both the family and I were very busy, they were always ready to give advice about places to go, things to see and ways to get around – as well as delighting in explaining the history and ways of the Black Forest and its inhabitants. I especially appreciated being included in Fastnet and Christmas celebrations, being taken to the castle in Glatt for tea and ENORMOUS amounts of cake, joining in with their personal Chinese New Year dinner and being shown around a couple of markets 😊

My work while I stayed was mainly finishing the clay Fachwerk walls, laying floorboards, putting in an incredible amount of insulation, sanding and vanishing various pieces of wooden furniture and beams, tidying up the building site and organising the place. However there are always tonnes of other little jobs to do and Johannes will always try to find work that suits each workawayer’s capabilities/preferences. He is also very reasonable and flexible about when your working hours are, so don’t be afraid to have a discussion about what works best for you both.

In my spare time, I REALLY enjoyed going on walking, cycling and camping trips around the Schwarzwald. There are loooads of things to see (if you enjoy mountains, forests, rivers, old villages and castles) and so many paths through the forest that you can follow to get there! I also often baked, chatted to the neighbours, played accordion/violin/recorder music with the family and cycled over the mountain to pretty Horb (15km) or along quiet, green forest tracks to Loßburg (11km).

As well as gushing about how much I appreciated my time here, I also want to give some advice to any workawayer who is considering coming to stay. Please don’t come here if you are just looking for a free hostel and aren’t serious about upholding your side of the deal; fairness and honesty are very important to Johannes - something that I really appreciated. He has workawayers for company and so that he can share his knowledge of the area and the building project, but also because he really does need help to keep the project moving, so he has little patience for people who don’t do their part. Once he has shown you how the place works, you can decide together what your work will consist of: you can either work for a certain number of hours each day, or you can agree on a certain amount of work that you will get done each day – either way, Johannes will discuss it with you and he will appreciate you telling you what you think is a fair amount of work to do. The excellent thing about this is that you can always be sure of exactly *what* is expected of you and *when* you have to do it, which means you can plan how to fill the rest of your time without having to worry about whether you’re supposed to be helping or not! Of course, you may find you enjoy your work so much that you carry on all day without thinking about the time at all (this certainly happened to me a several times). To sum up: you get out what you put in! Make your work something you’re proud of, make sure you communicate clearly, become invested in the project and you will really enjoy your time here 😊

So! If you're prepared to work hard, get your hands dirty, learn a lot, have many thought provoking and enjoyable conversations, experience living in a more self-sufficient way than what you may be used to - and OF COURSE spend time reminding your legs how strong they're capable of becoming while wandering around this BEAUTIFUL, mountainous area of Germany which I fell in love with last year; I'd 100% recommend sending Johannes an email.

Johannes – thank you so much for this time. I’m very grateful for everything and I DO promise I will be back to visit you and the family in this BEAUTIFUL house. Keep going!!
Hannah 😊

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2 juin 2020

Laissé par l'hôte (Help with building and live ...) pour le workawayer (Hannah)

Hannah is like Elias (the workawayer who stayed before her): one of our very special workawayers. It was like Elias said; he left me and our building place in good hands.

She stayed (apart from a long break over Christmas) from September till March and, if it weren't for the corona-virus, it is likely she would have stayed even longer. We… read more

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18 oct. 2019

Laissé par le workawayer (Hannah) pour l'hôte (Help us on our camel and ...)

I arrived during a very, very difficult and sad time for Dani and Beate - and yet they still managed to be excellent hosts :) They are patient, strong and caring people who have a lot of knowledge to share. They made sure I was very comfortable in their lovely b&b house and I’m positive I put on weight from all the yummy food!!
The work I did was… read more

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13 oct. 2019

Laissé par l'hôte (Help us on our camel and ...) pour le workawayer (Hannah)

Hi Hannah.. Thank you so much.. You are so powerful.. Full of energy.. Independant.. And so helpful during your stay here.. And you are the best bike doctor ever!! Never met a person repairing bikes so patiently. We wish you wonderful experiences in the world, animals and with people..

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23 oct. 2018

Laissé par le workawayer (Hannah) pour l'hôte (Help with gardening on a ...)

I stayed 12 days with Sonia in June, and they were 12 days very well spent! Sonia is a lovely person with a big dream and a big, big heart. She made me feel comfortable and well looked after throughout my stay and I was definitely never hungry! Her home, is a beautiful place which she has spent the last couple of years turning into her 'dream' -… read more

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