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Looking for females only please.
We are four in the family: Nico, Lola, Cova and Porma the dog. Cova is 12 years old, we are 47 years old. My husband is dedicated to the environment quality and me, I am a technology teacher in a Secondary/High School.
Cova is a very cheerful and sweet girl who loves music, reading and playing outside.
We love travelling and trekking. Nico really enjoys playing basketball and cycling, and me, I love playing boardgames, and going out for tapas, yummy yummy!...
We would like a language exchange with a native speaker, who would like to help our family to improve our English and overall, teaching English skills to our daughter.
We live in León, a nice small city in northern Spain, very pretty and surrounded by great nature, mountains, and also, an important point of the Camino de Santiago (Saint James Path).
León is known for its tapas and its Gothic cathedral. It takes 1h30 to arrive to the beach (Gijón), and 3,5 hours to Madrid.
We have a pet, a border collie dog called Porma. By the way, we don't smoke.
We love meeting foreign people who want to share time, experiences and discover another culture and traditions.
Lots of workawayers have stayed with us (at least 13),and we have enjoyed so much, we keep hosting new guests.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Teaching
Animal Care
Help around the house
Interests
Animals
Nature
Camping
Hiking
Cycling
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We expect to exchange culture and language skills and we offer a warm welcoming and a real family experience during your time in Spain.
We'll let all the freedom, you have a bedroom for yourself, and a house key. Anyway, we like going out for excursions and we are happy that you join us anytime.
We use to visit with workawayers the city and outskirts, we provide a bicycle for moving through the city or scooter, travelling support for visiting other nearby cities and nice recommendations in everything you need,
You are going to have a lot of opportunities to practice Spanish outside home, and if you are interested, it is possible to attend free Spanish classes during the morning.
If you love cooking we can share each other our recipes and enjoy nice food!
We have a large experience sharing great moments with many workawayers from all around the world, we love diversity!!
Nice mountains and falls, touristic train, ski restorts, near seaside cities, historical cities, and the warm and charm of our family.
Lot of experience sharing great moments with many different workawayers.
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Help
We basically need you to help us teaching English. We would like to speak at home in English, to get immersed in it.
We need you to prepare English lessons for our daughter Cova and help her learning and improving her English (reading, writting, spelling, vocabulary, and most important, speaking and correcting her expressions and pronunciation).
Because of Cova´s schoool timetable and music school are usually very busy, we would like you to teach on monday, wednesday and friday at least 2 hours or more depending on Cova´s free time, and completing during the weekend to 20 hours in total, tuesday and thursday are off.
Cova is 12 years old and what we appreciate is experience in preparing active and dinamic teaching classes. All kind of experience related to it will be welcomed.
We would like a person who love children, treat them with affection, and a trustworthy person who takes easily to fit in and be one more family during the stay with us.
We also would like normal people who has no problem to set the table, clean up your staff and room, in summarize, what you do at your home normally, nothing else.
Maybe we would need exceptionally some help for going for a walk with the dog.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
A private room and a shared bathroom for the workawayer in a flat in downtown. You can go by walking everywhere in the town.
We have all the facilities at home as washing machine, dish washer, microwave, heating system...etc. We also provide of a bike or scooter for moving. Of course all meals are provided and if you have any special diet requirement, we adapt to it and we can buy specific food you need.
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Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
My animals / pets
Porma
Feedback (13)
From day one, she integrated perfectly with our entire family, making our life together so much easier and happier. Her kindness, warmth, and generosity have left an indelible mark on all of us. We'll always remember your open spirit, contagious joy, and love… read more
Marissa is totally trustworthy, nice and very well educated.
Thank you very much for coming to meet us. We hope to see you again.
Lola
She has passed a month with my family and we feel that it was a short period of time.
She has helped us at home with our daughter and has collaborated with the housework. She is hardworking, kind, friendly and trustly, totally recommended.
We have laughed and shared experiences, trips and board games.
Kim, we are… read more
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From day one, she integrated perfectly with our entire family, making our life together so much easier and happier. Her kindness, warmth, and generosity have left an indelible mark on all of us. We'll always remember your open spirit, contagious joy, and love… read more
Marissa is totally trustworthy, nice and very well educated.
Thank you very much for coming to meet us. We hope to see you again.
Lola
She has passed a month with my family and we feel that it was a short period of time.
She has helped us at home with our daughter and has collaborated with the housework. She is hardworking, kind, friendly and trustly, totally recommended.
We have laughed and shared experiences, trips and board games.
Kim, we are… read more
Cova was very sweet, energetic, and creative. We were constantly finding something new to do - disco parties,… read more
It is 100% recommended.
She was living with my family for a month, taking care of my daughter, they have a lot of fun together.
Thank you very much for coming to meet us. We hope to see you again.
Lola
Cova is a sweet, well mannered and intelligent young lady. Very inquisitive and also a wonderful teacher herself. Thank you for being so helpful and understanding in such a… read more
We had a constructive and pleasant time with her. She helped us with our daughter for almost three weeks, we feel elated to have met hee. We especially recommend Marissa to any serious work, you'll receive a willing, smart and… read more
She is a very hard worker, reliable and flexible person, who has had a lot of patience with us and who has adapted to our pace and our family perfectly. We have appreciated how communicative she was, even before travelling to… read more
This part of northern Spain… read more
I can only thank her for visiting our house, it has been incredible to meet her.
I hope to see her again someday, since the doors of the house will always be open for her.
If someone is thinking of accepting her as a workawayer, I can recommend… read more
This was my first Workaway experience - and I honestly wouldn't have had it any other way. Lola, Nico and Cova are a beautiful family who treated me more like a friend than anything else.
Cova is an intelligent and lovely little girl who I enjoyed taking care of. We would do anything from dancing… read more
She is a wonderful person, very good worker, realible and well-organized. I have appreciated how communicative she was, even before traveling to Spain, keeping us informated of their plans, dates, schedules ...
Personally, she is a… read more
I got to experience a charismatic part of Spain I didn't know to exist before my arrival. Lola and Nico where generous enough to take me to the nearby trecking routes to witness stupendous landscapes. Cova, during the time of my visit four years old, is one… read more
Beth is a wonderful person who has helped us a lot with our young daughter, she is very professional.
It has been a pleasure to live with her, she is cheerful, open, good, sincere.
We loved how flexible and diligent she is. We have learned a lot about USA, through the talks we have had, we are going to miss them.
Beth, you know you have your… read more
