STUDENTS! Summer....

sniffy said:
What is the appeal in that? I'm not taking the micky, I just don't get it. Having no spare money and sleeping in ****-stained hostals in a foreign country never took my fancy. I can only see it being fun if you treat it like a long holiday but you can't as I doubt you could afford to do that. Maybe I'm looking at it wrong?
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i think the appeal is the experience. you never know.. it might be the best thing he/she will do in their life. or the worst. "he who dares.. wins" type thing
 
Well, in my three week summer holiday I think I'll go to Italy to see my parents and hopefully go to Wales to shoot some rabbits. Other than that I think I'll have a good sit down. I've had 2 weeks off all year... damn them for trying to turn me into a proper human being.
 
lemonkettaz said:
i think the appeal is the experience.
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The experience I described above doesn't sound appealing though. It would take a unique (strange?) person to enjoy having no money and living in pretty poor conditions. I guess this ultimately depends on the money you allocate for accommodation. People I know who back-packed certainly didn't allocate proper money for it (Sleeping in parks some nights...hmm sounds great in a dodgy country).

you never know.. it might be the best thing he/she will do in their life.
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True. I could walk outside and have the day of my life in this country though. I don't get why it must be achieved abroad.

or the worst.
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Probably the likely outcome :p

"he who dares.. wins" type thing
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Probably does boil does to this. Guess I'm just a boring git :)
 
Off to Ibiza in the summer for first 2 weeks of August as I graduate this year :D Can't wait it's gonna be awesome!

Then I have to come back and go to the job centre to look for a full time / graduate job when I get back :(
 
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sniffy said:
The experience I described above doesn't sound appealing though. It would take a unique (strange?) person to enjoy having no money and living in pretty poor conditions. I guess this ultimately depends on the money you allocate for accommodation. People I know who back-packed certainly didn't allocate proper money for it (Sleeping in parks some nights...hmm sounds great in a dodgy country).



True. I could walk outside and have the day of my life in this country though. I don't get why it must be achieved abroad.



Probably the likely outcome :p



Probably does boil does to this. Guess I'm just a boring git :)
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well... each to their own:p
 
sniffy said:
The experience I described above doesn't sound appealing though. It would take a unique (strange?) person to enjoy having no money and living in pretty poor conditions. I guess this ultimately depends on the money you allocate for accommodation. People I know who back-packed certainly didn't allocate proper money for it (Sleeping in parks some nights...hmm sounds great in a dodgy country).



True. I could walk outside and have the day of my life in this country though. I don't get why it must be achieved abroad.



Probably the likely outcome :p



Probably does boil does to this. Guess I'm just a boring git :)
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Probably :p

I did this last year with a friend, we went right around europe: barcelona, madrid, morocco, bordeuax, zurich, prague, hamburg, stockholm, paris and cornwall. I loved it to bits even though it was a little rushed (did it all in 6 weeks and the 6th week was cornwall). Although I did have to sleep rough a couple of nights (one of which I really enjoyed), you seem to have this stereotype of hostels being flea-ridden and disgusting and not fun. Sure its not the same as living in your own house, but I'd compare it to living in uni halls. It is a decent standard of living and you get to meet a lot of people.

Add to that the experience of seeing new places, the sun and perhaps the solitude, that is what makes me save my money for a year to blow it all in one summer.

Also: bad experience is good experience. I've been mugged in marseille, slept rough, hitch-hiked, I cancelled a hotel in Rabat whilst on a train in morocco to go somewhere else with a guy i met on the train.. on a whim and where we ended up was way better than Rabat could have been. Last week I got lost climbing up ben nevis and ended up saving a solo climbers life.

Its the experience that makes everything worthwhile, bad or good.

P.S. You miught find it hard to believe but the UK is actually one of the dodgyest countries in europe and I would not sleep rough here unless I was in the highlands or someting.
 
Yeh, what sounds better...

Ive been to Madrid/Milan/Prague/Brussels/Vienna/Rome...so on and so on..

or..

Yeh Ive been to .. nottingham...london..basically places in this country
 
Going 'round Catalonia with my Norwegian friends and (hopefully) going to Prague, Budapest or Bucharest (that's the shortlist) with my friends from here.
 
I have to come back from Vienna working for a pretty damn good project and company, to spend three months working in some poo hole to make sure I have the money to live next year when I go back to uni again and dont have to work during the year.

But going to vienna for the year was a damn good experience, but there are too many distractions to spend my monies here, so I dont think im going to save enough to cover me next year.
 
Mulder said:
Hi there,

I'm wanting to go abroad during the summer to either volunteer or work in Australia or New Zealand. I've had a look at BUNAC "experiences" and they look pretty good. Anyone have experience of BUNAC? Are there any other options available? Ideally I'd be working over there so the cost of the trip would be minimal!

Also, what are all you other students going to be doing during the summer?
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Try your hand at WWOOF, willing workers on organic farms if you goto OZ. You do around 4 hours of work a day for board and lodgings. Majority are standard run of the mill type affairs. but some are real gems.

Like the 500000 acre cattle ranch I ended up on, steering cattle on quads. Had to get picked up and dropped off in a light aircraft. :eek:

And the croc farm where I had to feed baby crocs.

If you goto Byron Bay, you can find some real hippy spaced out jobs there... Let's just say that, and leave it at that. That job was about as organic as it gets!! :eek:

But in all serious, you can get jobs in city farms. And 4 hours of work a day for a bed and grub isn't too bad. You get a book with about 5,000 farms all over the country. Some are obviously just looking for slave labour, so shop wisely.

http://www.wwoof.com.au/about.html

Whatever you do, DO NOT GO FRUITPICKING... Ever...
 
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Would love to get abroad for a bit, and help a charity, but I just cant aford anything over a about £300
 
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