Kelly

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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

Interesses

Idiomas

Idiomas
Inglês: Fluente
Espanhol: Fluente

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Habilidades e conhecimento para compartilhar ou aprender

Conhecimento de:  

Jardinagem

Projetos de construção/faça você mesmo

Fazer companhia para idosos

Manutenção geral

Vida na fazenda

Projetos ambientais

Hotelaria/turismo

Trabalho beneficente

Projetos artísticos

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Poso ensinar:  

Ajuda a cuidar da casa

Cuidar de animais

Idiomas

Ajuda com computadores/internet

Ensino

Quais são suas habilidades?

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

Idade

59

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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

Mais algumas informações

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  Fumante

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  Carteira de motorista

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  Alergias
  poison ivy

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  Dietas especiais
  Prefer vegetarian but am totally flexible