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Welcome to the Estate Of Sound projekt

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The experience

Hi! I am Aurel, French sound system designer/producer and travel lover :)
My project is to create a full autonomous place. I plan to build a big vegetable garden, some small wooden constructions and also continu to arrange my land.

"Important":
-I ONLY accept people from Europe and Canada
-No couples, friends OK
-You have to be an adult, autonomous and responsible!
-You have to be OK with manual work, be dirty...
-No crybabies please!

What you offer

24 hours of help per week

Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.

Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

What you get

1 day off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.

Discounts on Parties: Get discounts at nearby parties and clubs.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Free Parties: Get free entrance for the best parties in town.

Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.

Pub Crawls: Be a part of our pub crawls at local bars!

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Surfboards: You can use our surfboards as much as you want.

Surf lessons: Take free surf classes at the local beaches.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English or Beginner French

Between 19 and 40 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

European Union Passport

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

The work:
Your time table is 4h/day 6 days a week, we start at 9am and finish at 1pm. You have to be productive! No break every 15 minutes, you have to listen what I say about the way to work and do it as I said. Be productive is important, I spend lot of time and money for volunteers, so it is necessary that in return I get a benefit about your work. If you are slow or useless, better I do the work myself, I win time and money!

Tasks I will ask you to do mostly:
-Clean the land with weed cutter machine (I love this job)
-Start the vegetable garden
-Build wooden structures
-Install solar panels

About you:
You have to be an early riser!!! Not wake up at 9:30am when we are supposed to start work at 9am!
You will have to work! Yes, real work, no "work" for 30min then stop for 15min and repeat until the end! Be sure you are motivated to do manual work before apply.
Also if you need a dad to assist you please skip!
You can understand now that I had lazy people here, or not funny or else, then I prefere to be clear and avoid any bad experiences for me and also for you.

About the place:
I live in the real country side, it can be kind of hostile sometimes.
Like very cold for winter (-7°C) or very hot+flies+mosquitoes for summer.
Also from Oct to Feb, hunters are arround, gunshots are very early.
You have to be ready to do normal tasks after work as clean your bathroom, your house, your kitchen and cook for you or for the group...

About your stay:
I propose 3 kinds of accommodations for your nights:
- One tiny wooden house (5m2) with one single bed, and sofa and heater or fan
- A closed tree hut (not for claustrophobic person) with a single bed and a terrace

There is a shared outdoor bathroom for volunteers only, with eco toilets and shower with hot water and heater

Activities & Shift

The activities after work that I propose you to do:
-Go to ride e-montain bikes arround my land! I have 200km of tracks with all kind of difficulties. You have to know how to ride a bike a minimum. Ebikes is the best way to enjoy the surrounding here.
-Enjoy the beach or the river, beach is at 25min of car and river 25-40min of bike
-Hiking, firsts hikes are very close (not summer)
-Surf or kayak (surf is possible but very rare)
-Visit cities like Valencia, Tarragona, Barcelona (we share the fees for gasoline...)

Activities on site:
-Watching movies the night with the outside cinema (April to November)
-Chill in lot of dedicated places with views

Rules

I will decline all person that do not answer after 1 day to my first reply.
If you are too slow to confirm I will decline too.

I DO NOT include the food. You have to pay for your food.

If the ambiance is not good because of you, I will ask you to leave. Also if you are ineficient for the work, I will also ask you to leave. Be sure that you are ready to do real manual work before apply!

Electricity:
Electricity is from solar panels, so we have to be carefull about the consumation mostly during winter.

Water and wifi:
I use rain water with tanks so we have to be carefull about the quantity of water we use. Wifi is not unlimited too but it is available everywhere in the land.