Student Summer '07

youthacademy

I'l a third year university student trying to plan the summer(tough life isn't it?). I think America is out cause i'm 20 and drinking age is 21. Maybe inter-railing.

Whats yere experience with inter railing; good-time, expenive etc.????

or maybe Oz for 4 months??

topdog8

youthacademy wrote:

I'l a third year university student trying to plan the summer(tough life isn't it?). I think America is out cause i'm 20 and drinking age is 21. Maybe inter-railing.

Whats yere experience with inter railing; good-time, expenive etc.????

or maybe Oz for 4 months??

Im hitting the state for the summerto do a summer camp for 3 months and then im going to travel around floriad coast for a month. ur flights are paid and its good fun. im sure is fairly handy to get a fake I.D its lucky i dont have that problem

breadmonkey

Go to Canada. Drinking age is 19.

I wouldn't go for interrailing since that can be done pretty much any time. Once you get a horrible job you probably won't have 3 or 4 months off!

bloodninja

I was thinking of going somewhere not too far from home in case things don't work out. say greece or scotland. or both after a while. hopefully earn some cash and then head somewhere nice for 2 weeks at end of summer.

lochie

I went interrailing last August and I can honestly say it is the best experience ever! We stayed in Eastern Europe, did 10 countries in a month and found that was loads of time in each country went to Austria (got cheap flight in there), Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Rep,Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, not in that order and i forget the other place, it was dead cheap. In hungary we were getting glasses of wine for 44cent, most vodkas were around €2, some even €1.25, spent around €1500 in spending money and another €500 on inter railing ticket and flights, completely worth it. Fantastic experience. I am looking at going on a 2 week sun holiday this summer and it is working out more expensive than interrailing.

Someone suggested Canada but think it is virtually impossible to get visa for there because they sell out in super fast time...

lochie

bloodninja wrote:

I was thinking of going somewhere not too far from home in case things don't work out. say greece or scotland. or both after a while. hopefully earn some cash and then head somewhere nice for 2 weeks at end of summer.

My friends went to Greece two summers ago and you can forget about saving any money, they worked on Ios and couldn't afford proper accomodation and ended up sleeping in a glorified tent for the summer and could only afford to eat 1 sandwich a day! On the good side they lost loads of weight They went to Edinburgh last summer and really enjoyed it, they earned good money (try working a T in the park - great money and get to see the music for free) and had great accomodation

bananarama

topdog8 wrote:

Im hitting the state for the summerto do a summer camp for 3 months and then im going to travel around floriad coast for a month. ur flights are paid and its good fun. im sure is fairly handy to get a fake I.D its lucky i dont have that problem

I'm really interested in finding a summer camp to work for during the summer, especially somewhere on the coast of Florida. How did you arrange yours?!

Niloc

A group of students are organizing a working holiday to Japan for this summer. Interested? The plan so far: Fly to Japan around the end of May, Work for June and July, travelling around the country on weekends and days off, sampling Japanese life, culture and cuisine. After finishing work spend a bit more time seeing some more of the tourist attractions around Japan. Next, get the ferry (aka the slow boat) to China, arriving in the port of Shanghai. Travel around Shanghai for a number of days. Get the newly opened train to Lhasa, in Tibet.
Spend two or three days there and then the train on to Beijing. Stay there for approximately a week.
From there board the famous Trans-Mongolian railway bound for Moscow. On arrival in Ulaan Baatar (the capital of Mongolia) spend two of three nights there, at least one of which with a native nomadic tribe. Reboard the Trans-Mongolian and go to Moscow.
See Red Square, the Kremlin etc. and then fly home. Easy as that.
Of course all this is optional. If you want to remain in Japan working, travel home directly, or by a different route its up to you. What do you think?

I’m not entirely sure what kind of work we would be eligible for, there are a few professions and jobs that the work visa does not permit us to do, (and I think bar work and waitressing is included in that, unfortunately), but teaching English, factory work cleaning work construction work i even saw an agency looking for models so there is plenty of unskilled jobs available as far i have been able to see. Also one of the girls I’m traveling with, her uncle's company works out there or something like that so hopefully they might be able to sort us out with jobs, maybe.
I’m doing the job of travel agent at the moment, there’s no specific organization offering this package, it is just a dream i have always wanted to do, but for the trans-Mongolian train journey and stop off in Mongolia, I might be booking that part all together through a travel agency. (There’s a Danish company that specializes in it)

The issue of numbers is always a difficult thing to pin down. Hopefully the group would be in multiples of 2s or 4s, (best fits for trains and cabins and such). Currently there’s myself and the girl I told you about and two more maybes that are trying to organize finances.

How many I expect to be traveling is difficult. I don’t want too many but you would need a decent sized group, I’m hoping for 6 to 8, but the more the merrier (bring a friend).