Geert

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  • Travel information

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    Travelling

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    Serbia
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  • Description

    Hello dear Workaway community!

    My name is Geert. I am 28 years old and I'm from Belgium.

    Since March 2022 I am traveling again, this time with a bicycle, in search for a more meaningful and simpler life.

    I want to experience and learn many different things and meet interesting people.

    I would like to learn (more) about permaculture, foraging, natural building, off-grid and sustainable living.
    I'd like to work in an animal sanctuary and learn (more) about farm animals and how to take care of them and connect with them.
    I'd love to spend some time in hostels and in communities, wether in ecovillages or with co-housing and work/live together with fellow travellers/volunteers as I love this way of living.

    I am open minded and good hearted, always want to help where I can. I am sensible, a good listener, a little more on the quiet side, calm and respectful.
    I love to connect with people but also value being alone. I'm a dreamer and want to make this world a better place.
    I'm motivated, eager to learn and a hard worker.

    Some things I love to do in my free time:
    - swimming in lakes
    - wildcamping
    - hiking in the mountains
    - cycling
    - reading in my hammock
    - Evening bonfires
    - boardgames
    - listening to music/podcasts
    - watching documentaries
    - drinking coffee while watching the sunrise
    - learning a new language or just in general learning about life and the world we live in.

    I'm not the best in describing myself so I hope this gave you at least a little preview of who I am (becoming).

  • Interests

    Yoga / Wellness
    Fitness
    Beach
    Van life
    Politics / Social justice
    Vegetarian or vegan
    Plant care
    Sustainability
    Self development
    Outdoor activities
    Nature
    Hitchhiking
    Languages
    Mountain
    Hiking
    Gardening
    Events & social
    Cycling
    Books
    Animals

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  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    English: Fluent
    Dutch: Fluent
    German: Beginner
    Spanish: Beginner

    More details about my language interests
    I'd love to learn/improve my Spanish. I used to be able to speak it a bit while hitchhiking but lost most of it. I would also like to learn French, but have never prioritised it (although it is supposed to be my 2nd language 😅) I understand quite some German because a lot of it is quite similar to Dutch but rarely speak, so I would also like to improve that. any help or advice or whatever along the way is welcome. My preferred learning environment is while doing other tasks or through conversations rather than sitting down and actively studying it.

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  • Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn

    I'm interested in:  

    Animal Care
    Hospitality/Tourism
    Charity Work
    DIY and building projects
    Eco Projects
    Languages

    Some knowledge of:  

    Gardening
    General Maintenance
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Helping around the house
  • More details about your skills

    I haven't really studied much. I quit school as soon as I was 18 years old because of many reasons, one of them is that I was in the wrong school. I also always had problems with the school system. I just didn't fit in and also didn't wanted to fit in.

    For the rest of my working career, it has always felt the same.
    Because I don't have any degree, I worked most of my time in factories, warehouses, doing all the typical industrial work. Packaging, orderpicking,... Later in life when I was already travelling, I started to do more outdoor work like picking apples, picking strawberries, harvesting white asparagus, harvesting leeks...

    I did a lot of tough physical labour on minimum wages since I was quite young (15 years old) like working in restaurant kitchens and having 12 hour shifts of washing the dishes etc.
    These are jobs that are still a possibility to do for me when it's a paid position.

    Because of this lifestyle I feel like I am lacking specific skills, although those many different experiences have definitely shaped me the way I am now. I am very independent, went through a lot in life and know what it is to work hard for my money.

    I do have many passions and interests like I mentioned earlier in which I'd like to gain more experience and knowledge.
    Recently I've learned a lot more about gardening and planting a polyculture veggie garden.
    I've also created a patio with natural stones, something I never thought I could do by myself.
    I also learned how to bake sourdough bread from scratch with my own starter.

    This summer of 2023 I worked in a hostel (Estonia), on a holiday rental house at lake balaton (Hungary) and on a campsite (Slovenia) where I mostly had to do the cleaning part of the business.

    I am a hard worker, eager to learn, have a lot of motivation and am genuinely interested in many things regarding veganism, taking care of animals, DIY, gardening, sustainability, foraging wild edibles, and many more things related.

    I am a clean and tidy person. Organizing stuff, cleaning, doing laundry, iron clothes, and other household tasks are obvious things to me and I don't associate them with work as it's taking care of yourself and your environment.

    I am someone who can work independently as soon as I know what to do or have a sense of what has to be done. I will visualize the task and start doing it until I'm finished, but I will need some sort of guidance on the first few days and from experience have realized that I prefer a sort of schedule or to do list because it hasn't always been very clear from the beginning what my tasks are or what is expected from me.

    I cannot offer you a lot of knowledge but I can offer you 2 hard working hands and my input or ideas that might come up in the moment and I believe that I am capable of many things if given the chance.

  • Age

    29

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    • Smoker

    • Driver's licence

    • Allergies
      No

    • Special dietary requirements

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