Heike

Germany
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I am currently
At home
Activities i am interested in:
animals care ; farming ; children & elderly care ;
My next destination:
Turkey - from Nov 2025 until Jan 2026
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Description
Here is Heike .
In the present I live and work via workaway in germany .
I have 2 adults daughters .
I am a friendly , sociable woman and like moving in silence .

All my life I worked with children and young people and liked this job. It s good time to be with them .

I have also big motivation to be busy with agriculture and animals .
I like to cook a good food for people .
I am sporty , like selfmade -music .

5 years ago I was on travel for one year outside from routinework for to be with friendly , honest people to live and work with them , learn to know other cultures , songs and jokes and help at there projects and find nice places in the surrounding.
It changed a lot in my life.
since 5 years I am busy with workaway in germany ; also in Poland ; Serbia and Greece .
Sometimes I like to be my myself .

Chess and backgammon I like to play . I love to tell short story
about dervish and sufi and little tales .

I travelled in Marocco ; Myanmar ; Guinea , Liberia ; Georgia ; Albania
all with public transport
Estland - farmstay, Iran- familystay , Etiopia - childrensprojekt ; italy - housekeeping; turkey -familystay , gardening , housemaintenance ; Jordan- Kindergarden; Israel- farmstay ; poland in guesthouse and travel inside myself . serbia - farmstay, children ;
in my heart are some places to discover and explore ...
Interests
DIY & crafts
Books
Hiking
Camping
Cooking & food
Yoga / Wellness
Farming
Plant care
Charity work
Languages
Self development
Nature
Fitness
Cycling
Gardening
Music
Animals
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Russian: Beginner
More details about my language interests
This workawayer has indicated that they would be interested in sharing their language(s) or learning a new language. You can contact them directly to discuss this.
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Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn
Some knowledge of:
Being an elderly companion
Life at a Farmstay
Eco Projects
Animal Care
Hospitality/Tourism
Charity Work
Languages
Art Projects
Helping with Computers/ Internet
Teaching
DIY and building projects
Able to teach about:
Gardening
Babysitting and creative play
General Maintenance
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Helping around the house
More details about your skills
support children to learn ; work with animals ; gardening ; cooking a healthy but tasty meal for a lot of people; drive a car ; simple things to build and prepair ; upcycling ;cleaning ;
Cope problems in a constructiv way ;
Problems are for solving
Age
60
Some more information
- Smoker
- Driver's licence
- Allergies
  no
- Special dietary requirements
  no

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20 Feb 2023

Left by Workawayer () for host (Looking for help at our ...)

I am happy to meet this family full of live . I´ve had a lot of nice talk with Laura and her kids and we played chest .
And I am especially gratful to join Laura to a small turkish crashgroup on a very special beautiful place in the mountains near Seldcuk.
Laura teached me some turkish language .
Sorry , Laura , my feedback comes very late but it… read more

(Excellent )

29 Aug 2022

Left by Workawayer () for host (Gardening and collecting ...)

With DRagahna and Dare and the children are good time to be together .
We had a lot of talk , tasty meals from Draghana and I felt as an extended member
of the family .
They are very kind family . The dog Lhasa brings you wherever you go .
I was eased , that Draghana took it in an "useful " Way , that I cutted her rose"wall" to short by accident… read more

(Excellent )

17 Aug 2022

Left by host (Gardening and collecting ...) for Workawayer ()

We spent great period with Heike. She is very nice person and hard worker in the same time. We love her playing and singing,kids have nice chest games and we spent nice time talking about everything! We wish her beautiful journey and lots of nice places and good people!

(Excellent )

10 Aug 2022

Left by host (Big family with garden and ...) for Workawayer ()

Heike or should we call her Meta, came at the time when we were restoring the well, she helped us with cracking nuts, she picked up lots of tomatoes and saved my poor plants that I didn't have time for, she sometimes likes to withdraw a little to have time for herself which we hopefully respected. She liked working in the morning hours, when the… read more

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5 Aug 2022

Left by Workawayer () for host (Big family with garden and ...)

It was a peaceful and interesting time for me with Milos , Dragana and Vera family and was a very fine arriving for my first time in Serbia .
They had already a workaway-woman , that fitted more than 100 % in this place and nevertheless I was welcomed as well.
I relished to listen to the talks of all the people and the speciall easy atmosphere in… read more

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20 Feb 2023

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29 Aug 2022

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17 Aug 2022

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10 Aug 2022

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5 Aug 2022

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26 Oct 2021

Left by host for Workawayer ()

Heike was a great volunteer with positive work attitude.
She was always kind and respectful and performed all the assigned tasks diligently.
Being very friendly, she quickly made a great connection with the rest of the team.
Highly recommended workawayer!

(Excellent)

1 Oct 2021

Left by Workawayer () for host (Non-profit holiday centre in ...)

I don't want miss the time in your guesthouse in Koscielisko and that I ˋve had the opportunity to meet a lot young openminded people from many countrys and eat , work , sing " Hijo de la luna " with Anna from Spain and had every morning the sheeps around me to first breakfast outside and the friendly janitor .
It was really international… read more

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1 Oct 2021

Left by Workawayer () for host (Help with the kids needed in ...)

I ' ve had 2 weeks with Ania , Pawel and their kids Sophie and Adela.
After short time I felt like at home .
Ania and Pawel are warmhearted attentive people , empatically and have an fine sense of humour . They radiate calmness despite their little children , what is a lovely job, but sometimes
exhausting too.
I found some wildflowers and a… read more

(Excellent)

28 Sep 2021

Left by host for Workawayer ()

Heike spent 2 weeks with us, when I saw her at the bus stop with a guitar I knew she was our woman :) She brought with her a lot of good energy and I really felt connected with her. She helped around the house, cooked delicious Food, baked cakes, helped with furniture renovation, cleaned lots of windows, and what was really great she used… read more

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20 Mar 2020

Left by Workawayer () for host (Come and help us on our mini ...)

For some 10 days I was at the farm from Mert and Cicek .
From the first moment I felt in good hands and found good advice about fruuit trees
and cow and sheep and what happens in turkish agriculture .
Cicek and Mert s calm bring a good atmosphere over the day .
They know what the point is .
I wish you all the best .
Thank you !

(Excellent)

1 Feb 2020

Left by host (Join our family farm and help ...) for Workawayer ()

Heike was with as one month. She was wonderful friend and worker. She was weary good with kids and animals. It was impressing how she take bicycle and drive around all day or how she plans a trip around Estonia. Our respect to you Heike. We hope you trip is going good. Thank you so much

(Excellent)

7 Oct 2019

Left by Workawayer () for host (Join our family farm and help ...)

I enjoyed farmlife in Triinus and Egons familiy and their lovely naturally children for 4 weeks .
It was an experience that I donˋt wanted to miss .
We had good talks together about their country , social-life , livingconditions in Estonia and germany and I could take a lot of knowledge about using plants and take care on it , gardening and living… read more

(Very good)

26 Jan 2020

Left by host (Help us establish a ...) for Workawayer ()

Heike was our guest for a short time. She has a personality that loves nature, people. She wants to help women and children in particular. She enjoys walking for hours in nature. She helped us with both gardening and domestic work. Besides she also tried to help our neighbors. We thankful her.

(Very good)

26 Jan 2020

Left by Workawayer () for host (Help us establish a ...)

I shared nearby 2 weeks in January with Filiz and Mustafa and I felt like home after some days .
I Met there some other workawayer and it was truly good and relaxed work together and culture exchange .
After work we had a lot opportunities to visit some historical places with Filiz and Mustafa .
Behind Sarpdere is a small valley , what is very… read more

(Excellent)

11 Nov 2019

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10 Nov 2019

Left by Workawayer () for host (Eco-village project in Morano ...)

It has been a very beautiful time in Vibo Valentia , the town were Francesco lives .
He showed me some amazing beaches , a therme with warm water with nature around
and I had the possibility to adept a little bit more about South italy more far from touristik livestyle .
I am very grateful for this time and felt real good with him .
I can only… read more

(Excellent)

31 Oct 2019

Left by host for Workawayer ()

Heike was with us only for one week, but in that week she brought an amazing positive energy to the farm, and an amazing work ethic. We truly enjoyed have her here, and hope for the day she can come back for a longer time. We would encourage any workaway host to bring this amazing lady to your project. We wish you all the best Heike in your… read more

(Excellent)

22 Oct 2019

Left by Workawayer () for host (Welcoming volunteers to help ...)

The stay in house from Mohammed with his family was for me a very interesting and also funny time .
The 3 kids are very alive and Kitam , mohammeds wife is able for good jokes .
The kids and me played and sang together and we practised english and arabic words .
Kitam cooks very good Jordan food and in the evening we had spend time together on the… read more

(Very good)

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