Information du profil
Information de voyage
Actuellement, je suis
en voyage
Les activités qui m'intéressent :
I'm in Ireland now! DIY, gardening, animals care, homeworks, general maintenance. See my profile! Manlio
Ma prochaine destination :
Ireland - du Fév 2025 au Mai 2025 Voir tout
Description
About me, my skills, my life project
Hi! I am a 53-year-old teacher, separated, with no children. About myself I can say that colleagues, students and friends find me a sociable, proactive, responsible person, moreover qualities that I consider necessary to do my job and spend my life well. I am passionate about cinema, literature, radio programs, but above all I love outdoor life. I try to spend as much time as possible in natural environments, I like walking in the mountains but also make long foot trails between history, nature and art cities. I like animals, I have a dog (a sweet abandoned hound-dog named Boo, taken 7 years ago from a kennel, with me in my photo profile) and I raise hens together with an old lady who I also help in the vegetable garden (see photos of our veg garden). I come from a farming family and try to rediscover the benefits of a healthy life, in contact with animals and nature, and consume food produced locally with ethic and organic methods. For this reason I am among the founders of a consumer cooperative for the direct purchase of food from local farms, outside the logic of profit and exploitation conducted by the large distribution system. The cooperative is inspired by the historic foodcoop Park Sloape in New York. It is a community form to which I aspire and promote: https://www.alvearemporio.it/
My skills
I don’t like waste, I try to reuse everything and minimize garbage. Also for home life: although I have no specific competences I have a good manual skill and a certain inventiveness, so I always do all the maintenance work (repair and repainting the walls, fix windows, small hydraulic and electrical repairs etc.). I like to work with wood to create simple furniture, shelves etc (see photos of one of the rooms in my holiday hut I arranged by myself) . For this reasons I know how to use a a few ‘all’ manual, electric and motor-driven tools (drill, brush cutter, chainsaw etc., but not the blowtorch!) for the house and garden general maintenance.
Au pair in a montain hut
Last year I worked "au pair" at "Rifugio Chiggiato", a mountain hut, 1900 MSL, in one of the most beautiful landscapes of the Dolomites Unesco Heritage, places that I have always frequented, doing hiking and climbing. At the shelter I helped the hosts with tourists, working in the kitchen, tidying up the dining room and dorms, cutting grass and arranging the firewood. I also went into the woods to collect mushrooms to enrich the guests' menu! A rewarding experience of sharing spaces and work, a life among woods and breathtaking landscapes: community life, slow, frugal, sustainable... An experience I would like to repeat as a workawayer!
Why Ireland?
In the summer of 2022 I spent two weeks in Ireland, hiking the Dingle Way and cycling through Killarney National Park. I was so fascinated by the places, nature and people that since that summer I have promised myself to find the time and the way to stay in Ireland and get to know it better.
This year, 2025, I finally decided. I am in fact on “sabbatical” and I can have the time I want at my leisure to enrich my cultural baggage, meet people, help others in daily life, learn new things and improve my English.
What else?
If you need other information, please contact me! I'm eager to learn and meet people of other country and culture.
Centres d’intérêt
Cyclisme
Cuisine et alimentation
Bénévolat
Voile / bateau
Écriture
Dev. durable
Soin des plantes
Activités en plein air
Animaux de compagnie
Films et télé
Musique
Nature
Langues
Montagne
Histoire
Livres
Architecture
Art et design
Bricolage / artisanat
Ferme
Randonnée
Jardinage
Culture
Menuiserie
Animaux
Langues
Langues parlées
Italien: Courant
Anglais: Intermédiaire
Français: IntermédiairePlus de détails sur les langues qui m'intéressent
I'm a teacher in Italian literature: if you're interested to learn or improve your Italian language and culture et/or exchange languages, I'm more than available!
Compétences et connaissances que j'aimerais partager ou apprendre
J'ai des connaissances :
Jardinage
Bricolage et projets de construction
Entretien général
Aider dans une ferme
Éco-projets
Aider à la maison
S’occuper des animaux
Projets artistiques
Aide informatique / Internet
Quelles sont vos compétences ?
Gardening
Animal care
General maintenance (able to use manual, electrical, motor-driven tools)
Drive licence
Good computer skills
Âge
53
Informations complémentaires
Fumeur
Permis de conduire
Allergies
Régime alimentaire spécial
Feedback
What what can I say. You have been such great help to me at my farm as well as to Angies.
Your strength, hard work, organisation and skills were out to the test and you really performed.
While you were with us we created sheds, fences, fixed polytunnel, created new chicken house, made raised beds, planted trees & schrubs, looked after… read more
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Amis
Feedback
What what can I say. You have been such great help to me at my farm as well as to Angies.
Your strength, hard work, organisation and skills were out to the test and you really performed.
While you were with us we created sheds, fences, fixed polytunnel, created new chicken house, made raised beds, planted trees & schrubs, looked after… read more
