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Housesitting, pet care and gardening in rural Japan

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The experience

This position is for mid May to Mid June. It will involve taking care of our pets (cats ,fish,chickens and dog) with tasks such as feeding cleaning and exercise, gardening weeding, grasscutting and maybe harvesting and taking care of the house mostly general cleaning when we are away. We will show you our daily routine living in the peaceful Japanese countryside.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Pet Sitting: Taking care of and looking after pets.

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

What you get

2 days off per week

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

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

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.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

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 and Beginner Japanese

Over 25 years old

Only welcomes couples and partners (does not accept solo volunteers)

Academy Course How to become an outstanding Worldpacker

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Our volunteers for this position will need to be proactive as we will be away for some of the time. We have lots to do around the house and garden and we will show you what needs to be done but appreciate any ideas from our volunteers as to what also could be done.

Activities & Shift

As we will all be living together general things such as cleaning around the house and cooking and cleaning up afterwards will be shared.
When we are away volunteers really need to be at the house for most of the day because of our pets. Rocky our dog needs to be walked and fed 2 times a day, the cats food, water needs to be checked regularly and their litter tray needs checked as well. The chickens food and water also needs to be checked regularly and eggs need to be collected.
A little spare time can then be spent in the garden.

Rules

We would also like volunteers to be a couple or friends to support each other and have experience of dog care and confident with dogs as Rocky who is a shiba mix can sometimes be a little difficult to take care of until he feels comfortable with people.
Ideally volunteers will also be able to drive(they can borrow our car) but we do have e bikes which are very easy to use and have some Japanese ability.
We would also like to have a video call as well to check everyone understands the position and is happy to commit.