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Staying in a safe home with your own ,private room and bathroom. We are an Egyptian American Family that is fun to be around, you hear us laughing and getting goofy all the time. My wife and the kids enjoy baking cookies sometimes, and engaging in all kinds of fun stuff. My wife teaches English as a second language and tutors, while I run a boutique digital marketing agency from my home office. English is our main language in our home, however, I speak Arabic as well. In Cairo everything gets delivered to your home including groceries, food and even beer and wine.
We are welcoming you into our family and home for the agreed upon period of time, and as thus, we expect you to help out with usual household chores-in addition to the standard five hours of daily help. 4 Weeks stay minimum in order to be worthy for us. Please don’t send a request for hosting unless you are sure that you want to do this. Our profile has pictures showing how we live and shows you where you are going to be staying. At this point, we except to learn about you with any photos or social media as we also have to know who is coming to stay with us. Profiles without photos (that shows us who you are) will be rejected and we don’t expect you to send a request either. Please remember that this is a work program in exchange of free room and food.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Help around the house
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
They will experience EGYPT and get to see Cairo and Giza including the Pyramids and Sphinx and other great places. Also, being and American Egyptian family, they will try to new foods, learn some Arabic and experience the culture as well, in Sunny Egypt. Learning Digital Marketing and how to write content for the web as well as Social Media Marketing and Wordpress. The workawayer will be able to gain enough experience to start Digital Marketing and an eCommerce career once done helping us. We provide the food and shelter for free in exchange of 5 hours a day 5 days a week of work.
Help
My spouse and I work partially from home and we occasionally leave for business meetings. I need help with translating my websites in other languages some other Admin work (in which we will teach and guide before you start as it takes 3 days to learn and it’s not hard).
5 hours a day 5 days a week where you take 2 days off ( Friday and Saturday). Like mentioned I will teach it you.
You must be able to read & write and understand basic English, yet fluency is not required. You also must know how to use the internet and computers including basic Data Entry.
Languages
Languages spoken
Arabic: Fluent
English: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
You can learn some Conversational Arabic as my spouse and daughter can speak it. We will teach some Arabic.
Accommodation
We live in villa where you will have a Private Bedroom ( which has a lock) which is very modern and brand new with clean sheets and bedding. There is a Private bathroom with shower. Full board Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner ( You use our kitchen to make your breakfast or lunch and on most work days we cook dinner, however, occasionally you may be asked to cook a family meal and over the weekend you cook your own ) mostly we cook gourmet food. You can do your laundry. The villa is also gated and secured by our porter and our dogs. So, the place is very safe.
We love international food from Italian, Thai, Indian, American as well as Egyptian Foods. At our home everyone makes their own breakfast, however sometimes we make pancakes or omelets for everyone and we ask the type of bread and egg style. We do not eat pork but we eat everything else. We enjoy some beer and wine in our rooftop but we don't get intoxicated and we don't expect you as well. We have a very inviting rooftop with nice beach chaise lounges and a place to enjoy the outdoors. We provide WIFI so you can enjoy watching Netflix and other stuff that you do online, but will ask you to share the speed with others in our building.
What else ...
Giza Pyramids, Sphinx, Memphis, and Saqqara. Cairo has a lot to offer that will also include Ancient Bazar , Nile excursions as well as going of of town with us to our beach house which is an hour away. We goto to our private country club once or twice a week and have dinner there. There are also many cafes around us if you would like to enjoy the Egyptian culture. We live about 3 miles from the subway station ( underground) where you can Uber to it and it will take you anywhere in Cairo. Almost all restaurants types are available around us ( McDonald’s, Burger King, Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts and a plethora of Egyptian local restaurants.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Ok, as long it does not affect work schedule and it’s done on your own time. Internet speed is not fast and we all share it.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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The work was quite easy, and I also learned a lot of thanks to him, so thank you.
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The work was quite easy, and I also learned a lot of thanks to him, so thank you.
If you want to visit Cairo, it's best to take… read more
Thank you Livia
One of the things that truly stood out to me was the hospitality and generosity of Tarek's family. They always… read more
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