Summer

The_Minister

Whats everyone doing for the Summer? I'm trying to get ideas. I might work abroad, interrail etc.

Dave!

Assuming I can get a job, I'll be working full-time for most of it, and then going to Italy with my girlfriend for a week in August. Not very exciting!

I'd like to go interrailing, but I can't do both due to moneyness! And I have to pay off my laptop too, dang...!

Scope out the prices for interrailing though
http://www.interrail.com/home.asp?AFF=IRI

Only €200 for one zone (which can be about 6 countries!) for 16 days... That's pretty good value if you ask me! You'd need to add on the flights to and from Europe, though, and then food and accomodation (but presumably you'd be staying in hostels, so you'd save there).

I'd love to do it though, probably goin on a J1 next summer, but some time in the future! I like the whole freedom aspect of it... If it all goes pear-shaped and you're homeless, you can just hop on a train and try and get some sleep there, and wake up somewhere else Don't have to worry about hotels or any of that lark, you just go where the wind takes you, so to speak!

F*ck the girlfriend, I'm goin interrailing! lol

Any boardsies plannin on a J1 next year, to New York?

irlrobins

finish PhD, take the as much of summer off as I can before I enter the big bad world of Enterprise Applications and Technology Consulting.

Woot! The Real World here I come! :rolleyes:

Riamfada

Im going to make my way from there to China by car. If that fails then a train around europe

Jonny Arson

I'm currently keeping my fingers crossed that there's a position in my workplace during the summer so I can earn a sh!tload of cash which will mean I won't have to work during 2nd year of college.

Interailing with friends was on the agenda but it appears I haven't been consulted about anything to do with it so I might give it a miss and instead go to America the summer after. Probably go to Oxegen again and maybe go to Electric Picnic which I've heard is frickin' deadly.

rainbow kirby

Sell my soul so that I have enough money to pay my fees next year. I'm applying for internships, and still gonna be a video game wench.

Waltons

Probably head away somewhere with the girlfriend for a while, see if I can finally do something with a band and try to whore out some drumming lessons to beginner children for an extortionate price

besty

I'm still undecided between America and Interrailing. I have a job in France for as long as I want to will probably do that for a while, get the cash and do something fun.

Blush_01

Work in a stupid poo job until starting an MA/ research into Brehon Law and post-Gorta Mór Australian history. Sounds fun, no?

beanyb

Canada!!! I cant wait, just got my visa the other day, it's gonna be the best.

panda100

Toss up between Australia or Morroco for a month in august.
Every year I go travelling with me mates and I just feel like I want to go off by myself this year and do my own thing so im not always relying on my mates.Think its about time I went away by myself too at this stage.
Reallly want to go to Morroco but cant see my rents letting me go off there cos its meant to be a bad place to for girls to go by themselves.Australia on the other hand is meant to be pretty brill by yourself-i dunno?I'm confused

Scraggs

I'm getting my jaw broken in June and will spend the rest of the summer on a liquid diet and recovering. I'll also be working fulltime and every spare second I get so I can get car! Meanwhile all my friends are gonna be off cavorting in New York on a J1...

Pythia

I've just got a job offer from KPMG, so working there probably. Woo hoo!

Waltons

Scraggs wrote:

I'm getting my jaw broken in June and will spend the rest of the summer on a liquid diet and recovering.

:eek: :eek:

singingstranger

Waiting for word this week from Google after applying for a summer internship.

irlrobins

Scraggs wrote:

will spend the rest of the summer on a liquid diet

Non alcoholic I presume!
Sounds like a painful thing to go through.

tintinr35

Pythia wrote:

I've just got a job offer from KPMG, so working there probably. Woo hoo!

Roight, roight, kudos pythia, kudos man

as for me im leavin on a jet plane to NYC

beanyb

panda100 wrote:

Reallly want to go to Morroco but cant see my rents letting me go off there cos its meant to be a bad place to for girls to go by themselves.:

Especially blonde girls. It's a lovely place, with lovely people but when I was there, they were all VERY friendly with my blonde sister, just cos blonde hair is so unusual there.

Chinafoot

panda100 wrote:

Australia on the other hand is meant to be pretty brill by yourself-i dunno?I'm confused

Ohman do it! You won't regret it. You meet so many people there who are travelling by themselves. Australia is amazing and I can't wait to go back.

My summer will consist of trying to get a job, probably moving in with the boyfriend and starting to save for a year in New Zealand. Oh and a few weekends away around Europe.

The_Minister

Scraggs wrote:

I'm getting my jaw broken in June and will spend the rest of the summer on a liquid diet and recovering.

We've all said it before - don't cross the Liffy

Scraggs

Thats not very nice now Firespinner now is it!!
[i'm from Carlow anyway I can handle myself]

The_Minister

Scraggs wrote:

Thats not very nice now Firespinner now is it!!
[i'm from Carlow anyway I can handle myself]

Carlow?......Northside?........Carlow?..........Northside?.....Northside!
Tend sheep and sow yer land.

Blush_01

Stephen, I will whup your tall blonde ass if you do that again.

Scraggs

Puhlease everyone knows I'm a pigfarmer*




*blatant lie

The_Minister

Blush_01 wrote:

Stephen, I will whup your tall blonde ass if you do that again.

Please you will forget to, I won't see you for.........oh crap.

Jonny Arson

Firespinner wrote:

We've all said it before - don't cross the Liffy

Let's be honest


and you spelt Liffey wrong too.

arbeitsscheuer

Join NGO, PlanUK, start 6 months internship in their London offices, then get sent to some random corner of the globe that is in a poor enuff position that it would actually welcome the help of a jaded old socialist such as myself...

My money's on Kenya, any takers?

The_Minister

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

you spelt Liffey wrong too.

Sorry I was thinking about Northsiders




ok now I stop

Font22

going interrailing!!!!
cant wait, going to be so good. i have friends who went before and said it was fabulous so really looking forward to it. any suggestions on where to go etc?

Blush_01

Firespinner wrote:

Please you will forget to, I won't see you for.........oh crap.

Exactly. Besides... I'm omnipresent. And therefore I could hunt you down if I wanted too. Just remember, I know all about the *cough* mature *cough* red-head.

beanyb

Font22, go for Eastern Europe. Prague, Krakow, Ljubliana etc. They're by far the funnest and the cheapest!

rain on

my MA thesis is due in in mid-August. my summer will be spent reading paul auster and pulling my hair out.

Font22

thanks beanyb!
yea i heard they are a good place to head alright. god i cant wait!

BKtje

probably find a job somewhere and try to pay back this loan to parents. Changing uni's is expensive

Probably go "home" to Rotterdam for a while tho.

blondie83

panda100 wrote:

Reallly want to go to Morroco but cant see my rents letting me go off there cos its meant to be a bad place to for girls to go by themselves.Australia on the other hand is meant to be pretty brill by yourself-i dunno?I'm confused

Dont go to Morrocco - it's a lovely place, and I was there with the family when I was younger, but even as a 14 year old I got way too much hassle off pervy 30-something guys. They have some issue with the blonde hair like, gets annoying after a while. I'd say Australia would be great fun - one opf my friends has just started doing a masters there so some trips over are in order for me

As for this summer...I'll be stuck over the northside doing my masters project the whole time - would love to do a J1 or something like that though

snickerpuss

The J1 is my idea of hell, i've to go to the gaeltacht next week for a week and i'm dreading it! I like home.
Summer - job, maybe go away somewhere. Can't see anyone employing me though.

Chinafoot

Well it turns out that I may be doing something this summer afterall.

The boyfriend has been invited to a family wedding on the 10th of June (day before my birthday). While initially horrified at the prospect of meeting all the relatives at the one time, I became more open to the idea once I found out where it was......Brisbane, Australia.

So the plan is to head over on the 4/5th of June (sisters wedding on the 2nd of June) and make two weeks of it.

I can't wait to go back to Melbourne!

anonymous_joe

Firespinner wrote:

Sorry I was thinking about Northsiders




ok now I stop

Careful Steve, they're everywhere...

pretty*monster

Working until mid August. Hopefully not sitting repeats.
Then going to Prague and Amsterdam for a week and a half.

singingstranger

peachypants wrote:

Well it turns out that I may be doing something this summer afterall.

The boyfriend has been invited to a family wedding on the 10th of June (day before my birthday). While initially horrified at the prospect of meeting all the relatives at the one time, I became more open to the idea once I found out where it was......Brisbane, Australia.

So the plan is to head over on the 4/5th of June (sisters wedding on the 2nd of June) and make two weeks of it.

I can't wait to go back to Melbourne!

/despairs at the tought of the anarchy on the forums for that fortnight...

rainbow kirby

/me readies anarchy tools

drdre

im just going to work and make some money,

Dave!

We'll see about that.

*smashes drdre's legs with a crowbar*

owned.

boneless

I'm going to stay drunk for the whole summer to take my mind off... Sh1te!! I've forgotten already... no I haven't!! My broken heart, thats it!!

Blowfish

am applying for an internship, so i may actually spend all summer in UCD

rainbow kirby

Odysseus? If so, I'm applying for that too. Probably won't get it though, because I'm stupid. And I'm only in 2nd year.

Blowfish

yep, am goin 4 all the graphics ones, coz i got 90% in it:)

rainbow kirby

Cool
Best of luck!

The_Minister

Still can't decide what to do

Blush_01

Sell yourself on E-bay. Then travel the world.

boneless

Blush_01 wrote:

Sell yourself on E-bay. Then travel the world.

For Sale, #1 drunken, heart-broken "older" (not mature!!) student.

Mmmm... has a ring to it....