Kelly

Information de voyage

Actuellement, je suis

Description

I am a single mature woman with the spirit of a child who has lived in or traveled in over 60 countries, alone.

I grew up on a farm raising goats, sheep, horses, cows, chickens, geese, ducks, rabbits. I milked the goats twice a day for many years. We also collected wood, cut, split, stacked for burning in our kitchen wood stove and regular heating stoves.

I live a similar lifestyle but even more rugged in Ladakh, the Himalayas of Northern India, where I now call home. I break ice in the winter and haul water by hand up the hills to my house, hand wash clothes, bucket showers, grow my own vegetables and dry them for the winter, collect my own vegetable and flower seeds for the next year, make my own hand lotion ... whatever needs doing I figure out how to do it with very limited resources.

I can do carpentry, building or repairing rock terraces or walkways, painting, all kinds of restoration work on buildings, a fast learner, very conscientious of caring for tools and organisation of things. I believe in doing a job right the first time and am not afraid to ask questions if something is not clear. I have learned to be extremely creative and resourceful with what is locally available.

I live alone in a little passive solar house built two years again in a small village in Ladakh, the Himalayas of northern India. All gardening, making compost and soil, maintaining a rammed earth house, hauling water, everything is done with interest and care.

I am a certified teacher with over a decade of international teaching experience. Presently, I live and work in Ladakh, a Tibetan Buddhist region of northern India high in the Himalayas. I sold my home in the US and everything I owned so that I could continue living in Ladakh and volunteering. It has been 11 years now since I started volunteering there and I am now focusing more on training teachers but still providing support to the schools. I teach young Buddhist monks and nuns and started a non-profi to recruit volunteer teachers for the remote monastic schools.

Winters are frigid and schools close (as we have little resources for heat, primarily cow and yak dung collected throughout the year), allowing me to head to warmer ground. I love my life. I am incredibly grateful for all that I experience. But I also love having a break in the winter iwhere I can have a chair to sit in and maybe a shower, the real luxurious of life. I have much to offer and much to learn and particularly interested in meeting like minded folks who seek to live a sustainable life and share the commonalities of goodness, love, respect, compassion, easy going and happy and content wherever or whenever.

I take responsibility seriously, am a good communicater, flexible, resourceful, sensitive to others needs, observant, engaged, have great relationships with animals and people of all kinds, enjoy laughing, creating, sharing, connecting, and being happy and content where I am.

Previous hats in this lifetime: I was an anthropologist, archaeologist, project coordinator for the Charles Darwin Research Station-Galapagos Islands, International teacher in many countries, worked with homeless families, folks fresh out of prison, responsibile for all refugees entering New Mexico in the US, and worked with refugees in Serbia, and Greece, built houses, 35 ton Dumptruck driver, etc

Centres d’intérêt

Langues

Langues parlées
Anglais: Courant
Espagnol: Courant

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Compétences et connaissances que j'aimerais partager ou apprendre

J'ai des connaissances :  

Jardinage

Bricolage et projets de construction

Tenir compagnie à une pers. âgée

Entretien général

Aider dans une ferme

Éco-projets

Accueil / tourisme

Travail associatif

Projets artistiques

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Je peux apprendre aux autres :  

Aider à la maison

S’occuper des animaux

Langues

Aide informatique / Internet

Enseignement

Quelles sont vos compétences ?

construction
interior design
resourceful
artistic
gardening
teaching
carpentry
milking goats
writing
resourceful and rustic
drive 35 ton Dump Truck, vus, motorcycle, horse and buggy
computers
care for animals
can do and/or learn most anything
website development

Âge

59

Autres infos...

I am easy going, very resourceful and creative, a problem solver, hard working and I believe in doing the job right the first time. Very flexible, happy

Informations complémentaires

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  Fumeur

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  Permis de conduire

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  Allergies
  poison ivy

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  Régime alimentaire spécial
  Prefer vegetarian but am totally flexible