Jacob

Information de voyage

Actuellement, je suis

Les activités qui m'intéressent :

drawing, painting, sketch booking, writing, electronic music, dogs, swimming, running, hiking, camping, learning Spanish/language exchanges, plants

Description

Originally from Maine in the US, for the past two years, I've been working as a freelance writer in Spain. I arrived with my Australian cattle dog, Sam, who is the absolute love of my life and ideal travel companion. At first, we lived all throughout Cadiz where I attempted to become a windsurfer, yet in the end, we ended up in Asturias where we feel much more at home. After moving north and living in Oviedo for the past three months, I would like to explore the rural parts of Asturias while volunteering on farms and homesteads. At this point in my life, I want to be closer to nature while collaborating with hardworking people. I want to learn new things while offering the skills I possess.

This is my second time living in Spain after teaching English in Murcia and Madrid from 2016-2018. During this time, I did Helpxchange projects with farmers in Catalonia, Galicia, and even Braganza in Portugal. Some activities included gardening, harvesting, building new plant beds, doing basic construction work, and tending to animals. Professionally my background is in journalism and content writing, but I'm equally passionate about getting my hands dirty, whether that be volunteering on farms, learning about permaculture principles, or doing conservation work.

In the past, I have lived in Guadalajara, Mexico where I worked for an English-speaking newspaper, as well as studied in Santiago de Chile for a semester. Previously I received a grant to initiate a sister-school partnership between my local high school and a Quechua indigenous school in Quito, Ecuador; worked with indigenous leaders and survivors of the Internal Armed Conflict in Guatemala, created a promotional documentary for a non-profit and did disaster relief work in Haiti eight months after the 2010 earthquake / served with All Hands Volunteers, among many other adventures. I have also worked for the Maine Conservation Corps where I constructed stone staircases in various state parks with my team, in addition to a long-term farming project in rural Québec Canada.

Langues

Langues parlées
Anglais: Courant
Espagnol: Intermédiaire

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Compétences et connaissances que j'aimerais partager ou apprendre

J'ai des connaissances :  

Jardinage

Bricolage et projets de construction

Aider dans une ferme

Éco-projets

Aider à la maison

Enseignement

S’occuper des animaux

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Je peux apprendre aux autres :  

Langues

Projets artistiques

Aide informatique / Internet

Quelles sont vos compétences ?

Basic Construction: assembled transitional shelters and built water filters with All Hands Volunteers in Haiti (eight months after the 2010 earthquake); constructed garden furniture made out of wooden pallets with Cochise County 4H Club in Arizona; spent a summer building stone staircases and blazing new hiking trails at various nature preserves with Maine Conservation Corps; collaborated with Habitat for Humanity in Colorado; made miniature and large scale¨Village in a Box¨ prototypes for the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems in Austin, Texas

Farming/Gardening/Permaculture: spent one month at a homestead in rural Québec where I harvested, planted, jarred provisions, and took care of animals with other volunteers from around the world; enhanced the local ecosystem at Bisbee High School in Arizona by reintroducing native desert plant species (such as mesquite trees and deer grass) to the land; conducted permaculture gardening workshops with Cochise County 4H Club

Spanish: studied abroad at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile while living with a host family; enrolled in B2 level Spanish classes at a private academy in Murcia

Teaching/Tutoring: worked as the Paso a Paso Program Coordinator at Comunidades Latinas Unidas en Servicio in St. Paul, Minnesota where I piloted a tutoring program for Spanish-speaking children; spent one school year teaching English at IES Los Albares in Cieza, Spain; worked as an English instructor at Cambridgetown in Murcia, Spain where I taught B1, B2 and C1 levels

Art: painted murals at the Yachay Wasi Intercultural Community Center in Quito, Ecuador, Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club in the Bronx, and Center Consolidated School District in Colorado where I also facilitated an after-school art club; trained drawer and painter

Writing/Journalism: studied journalism at American University in Washington, D.C., former contributor at News2Share, Revista Revolver, Law Street Media. I have worked as a journalist in Mexico at The Guadalajara Reporter newspaper and Contxto, an online media platform where I covered start-up news. In more recent years I have become a freelance write with various clients in Europe and the US.

Video: well-acquainted with Adobe Premier, Final Cut Pro and iMovie; produced informational videos for Cochise County 4H Club; video news segments for News2Share; made a promotional documentary for Vermont Haiti Project; independently covered the educational reform protests in Chile

Âge

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Autres infos...

COUCHSURFING PROFILE: https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/jahhh100
LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://es.linkedin.com/in/jacob-atkins-33732b84
PRESS PORTFOLIO: https://muckrack.com/jacob-atkins-4

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  Régime alimentaire spécial
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