Mandi

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Actuellement, je suis

Description

Hi, I am 63, retired, and live in a rural part of Australia. I have visited France twice and Italy once in the past and am really keen to visit both again. My next trip will be in October 2024, for a month. During this trip I hope to have my first workaway experiences, and then plan a longer 90 day stay from March to June 2025 to incorporate longer workaway stays.
I am fit, healthy, enthusiastic, keen to learn, happy to help and enjoy working hard to accomplish a task or create a project. I am interested in travel, meeting new people and experiencing new cultures. I am honest, reliable, conscientious and trustworthy. I am also calm in a crisis, competent and practical, with a good sense of humour and I make friends easily with animals and people of all ages. I am a non smoker, but I do enjoy a glass of wine with dinner.
What motivates me
* Learning a new skill or discovering new information.
* A project or plan to design and/or create something.
* Helping others and solving problems.
* Planning and organising, I love spreadsheets and folders.
* Physical activity - I can sit in front of a computer for a few hours, but then I need to go
outside and weed or mow or just talk to the cats or go for a walk.
What brings me happiness
* Spending time with family and good friends. I now have 3 grandchildren and I just adore being with them, playing, making up games and stories, going to the park or the café.
* Being outside, either for a walk, working in the garden or just sitting having a coffee and reading a book.
* Watching a good series or movie – Rom Com or mysteries. I enjoy watching French, Italian or Nordic series with subtitles in English, also travelling cooks like Rick Stein.
* Cooking and trying new recipes, especially desserts and cakes.
* Planning my dream holiday which has always been to be able to stay in one place for a month or so and live like a local, get to know people and really experience the wonderful lifestyle and culture.

Centres d’intérêt

Menuiserie

Jardinage

Nature

Cuisine et alimentation

Écriture

Bricolage / artisanat

Livres

Architecture

Langues

Langues parlées
Français: Débutant
Italien: Débutant

Plus de détails sur les langues qui m'intéressent
During Lockdown I completed my CELTA Diploma, so I am qualified to teach English as a second language.

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Compétences et connaissances que j'aimerais partager ou apprendre

Ça m'intéresse :  

Travail associatif

Tenir compagnie à une pers. âgée

Éco-projets

S’occuper des animaux

Aider dans une ferme

Aider à la maison

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J'ai des connaissances :  

Jardinage

Bricolage et projets de construction

Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs

Préparer les repas / cuisiner pour la famille

Accueil / tourisme

Aide informatique / Internet

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Je peux apprendre aux autres :  

Langues

Quelles sont vos compétences ?

Expertise
Office administration and computers – competent with Word, Excel, Publisher
Customer service and communication
Hospitality
Teaching
Experience and Abilities
Three years before COVID I started a small café/ coffee shop from scratch in our local town. I did everything myself for the first two years – cooking fresh cakes and pastries daily, making coffee and other drinks, all marketing and publicity and all administration and computer jobs, as well as ordering supplies and clean up. I enjoy cooking, especially cakes and desserts, often I would make French or Italian cakes and tarts for my shop.
For over ten years before COVID I was a private or personal tutor, helping Primary and Secondary students with Literacy and/or Numeracy after school several afternoons a week. I love teaching for many reasons, but one of the best must be when you see the look on your students’ face as they realise something new or finally understand something they have been struggling with.
Before starting my own tutoring business, I worked at local Primary and Secondary schools as a Teacher's Aide or helper in the classrooms, assisting those children who needed extra help to understand and/or complete tasks. My first job after leaving Secondary School was working in a large library, in the main library for three years, and then for 20 years, driving the Mobile Library or Bookmobile around rural areas, stopping for half an hour or longer at small villages so that people could borrow library books and other items. I enjoyed that job so much, and I did it for about 20 years. I am very friendly and like to help people, so I would put aside books I knew certain people would like, and find dinosaur, pirate or fairy books for kids so they would keep reading because I believe reading is so important for our kids.
I Have also worked for our local Council doing administration tasks, answering phones, assisting managers, writing letters and other computer tasks including spreadsheets.
I enjoy simple carpentry, painting and decorating and am always keen to learn new skills around a building site. I like physical work, my garden is about half an acre which requires a lot of mowing, brush cutting, planting, pruning etc.

Âge

64

Autres infos...

I enjoy playing cards and golf.

Informations complémentaires

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  Permis de conduire

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  Allergies

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  Régime alimentaire spécial
  Wheat intolerance