- Sign up for a kibbutz or moshav from over here, then visit Israel to learn
about labor, dirt, history, the Middle East, and fellow kibbutzniks from all over the
world.
- Get a job in Australia or New Zealand doing any kind of casual work, then hang out and
absorb the scene.
- Volunteer farm work in New Zealand and Australia is not as difficult as in Israel. You
get room and good food in exchange for four or five hours of labor per day. (Look for Willing
Workers on Organic Farms {WWOOF}).
- If you're a student obtain a work permit through CIEE, then find a job in the temp capital of
the world (London) as a secretary, waiter, or window washer.
- Volunteer two-weeks of archaeological work in Turkey through CIEE and Turkey's national
student travel organization, Genctur.
- Teach elementary school children in Kenya, providing you have a degree and commitment.
- Study for a semester at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji through the
International Student Exchange Program.
- The one backpacker I met who stomped grapes in France went back three years in
a row to the same vineyard, and had a fabulous time eating, drinking, socializing, and
even working.
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"Once I get me a housetruck, everything's gonna be alll-right..." (Housetrucks are idealized homes for some New Zealand farm workers.) |