Michelina

Information de voyage

Actuellement, je suis

Les activités qui m'intéressent :

I am interested in ceramics, painting, dance, exercising, watching movies, cooking, sustainability, horse back riding, hiking, traveling, playing card games, and spending time with friends.

Description

I am an eager environmentalist and artist. I am passionate about sustainability and am eager to learn new ways to improve my lifestyle and reduce my environmental impact as well as participate in broader environmental projects. I enjoy time spent in nature and with animals. I am graduating college with an double major in environmental science and studio double. My focus in art is on ceramics where I create both sculptural work and with functional ware.
I am eager to travel to almost any place and would love to learn new languages. I am excited about the opportunities that workaway provides to see different ways of life. My father was born and raised in Italy. I speak a small bit of Italian but greatly desire to learn more.
This is my first time on workaway, but I have been to places around the world for traveling. I have spent most of my time abroad in Italy but I have also been to other parts of the world including Korea, Japan, Belize, Costa Rica, and Scotland. I have volunteered for different organizations including a therapeutic horse back riding facility where I taught differently abled people, ages 3-25, how to ride horses as well as cleaned and maintained the horse barn to create safe environment for horses and students. I have also volunteered for a gardening organization at my college where we planted, maintained, and harvested crops like corn, tomatoes, beans, and squash.

Centres d’intérêt

Politique/justice sociale

Végétarien ou végan

Animaux de compagnie

Dev. durable

Mode et beauté

Culture

Dev. personnel

Films et télé

Photographie

Cuisine et alimentation

Jardinage

Langues

Dessin et peinture

Randonnée

Activités en plein air

Montagne

Danse

Fitness

Nature

Art et design

Animaux

Plage

Langues

Langues parlées
Anglais: Courant
Espagnol: Débutant
Italien: Débutant
Korean: Débutant

Plus de détails sur les langues qui m'intéressent
My native language is English. I took 6 years of Spanish in school. I am interested in teaching english. I am very interested in learning more Italian as my father is from Italy and most of his family speaks Italian as their main language. I am also interested in learning Korean which is my boyfriends native language.

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Compétences et connaissances que j'aimerais partager ou apprendre

Ça m'intéresse :  

Projets DIY créatifs

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J'ai des connaissances :  

Langues

Jardinage d'entretien

S’occuper des animaux

Préparer les repas / cuisiner pour la famille

Aider à la maison

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Je peux apprendre aux autres :  

Projets artistiques

Éco-projets

Garde de maison et d'animaux

Quelles sont vos compétences ?

I am a very handy person who loves to take on a challenge to fix something, learn something new, help someone else, and be a part of the surrounding community. When my sweater gets a hole in it, I learn how to mend it by creating a woven patch. When my mom wants to install a new night fixture, I research how to do it properly. When my boyfriend wants a haircut, I watch videos from professional haircutters and give it a try.
I am graduating from The College of Wooster in 2026 with a double major in environmental science and studio art.
For my environmental studies degree, a significant achievement was the completion of a year and a half long research project where I studied the effects of fungal inoculants and biofertilizers on lavender grown in stressed conditions. This involved planting, monitoring, and caring for 128 lavender plants. I wrote a thesis paper that discued and project and the findings of the research, defended this thesis to a committee, and presented my research at a symposium.
For my studio art degree, a significant achievement was the completion of a body of an artistic body of work developed over a year and half that culminated in an exhibition of my work in a gallery at my college. I wrote a thesis to support my work and defended it to a committee of professors. My body of work was mainly sculptural ceramic pieces but also included photographs and videos that I had taken and edited using adobe photoshop and adobe premiere. I have experience with creating sculptural ceramics and wheel thrown functional ceramics. I was the teachers assistant for the ceramics department for 3 and a half years during my time at college where I worked closely with the ceramics professor. I taught wheel throwing and glazing techniques to intro students, mixed glazes that were used in class, and loaded and fired students work in electric kilns one a week throughout the academic year.
I worked for the Office of Sustainability at the College of Wooster where I designed and managed a campus coffee grounds compost at the campus garden where coffee grounds from the three cafes on campus could be composted. I also worked with my peers and the College of Wooster Director of Sustainability to make the campus more sustainable through student education, hosting sustainability events, and implementing programs.
I have a cat and have been responsible for taking care of many of my neighbors and friends pets while they were on vacation. I am attentive to animals and care about their wellbeing, making me well suited to take care of them. I have some gardening knowledge as my family has a small garden where we grow vegetables. I also volunteered for my colleges gardening organization where I helped plant, maintain and harvest crops. I have some experience cooking and want to become better and learn new recipes from around the world.
My native language is English. I have experience sharing English with non-native speakers as my fathers native language is Italian and my boyfriends native language is Korean. I speak some Spanish which I learned in school for about 6 years. I speak a bit of Italian but would really like to improve. I speak a tiny bit of Korean and can read Hangul.

Âge

23

Autres infos...

I love horseback riding and have taken lessons in dressage. I enjoy card games like euchre and scala quaranta and love to learn new ones. I like to exercise by running, hiking, and swimming as well as lifting weights at the gym. I like watching movies and reading books. My I love films from Studio Ghibli like Princess Mononoke and I love the Lord of the Rings series by JRR Tolkien. I practice meditation to cultivate my mind.

Informations complémentaires

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  Permis de conduire

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  Allergies
  No allergies!

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  Régime alimentaire spécial
  I am pescatarian (fish is the only source of meat in an otherwise vegetarian diet). I rarely eat fish but I do occasionally.