| Every year many college students from around the | | | | same goals of the trip. Furthermore from this group |
| world travel to foreign countries on working travel | | | | travelers will easily meet others with whom they can |
| visas. The idea is to live in that foreign country while | | | | team up for forays from the area of residence, as |
| working (generally) part-time and in the spare time | | | | hiring a car and hotel accommodation costs are cheap |
| travelling from the residence to explore or indulging in | | | | when sharing amongst two to four people. |
| other vacation type activities. | | | | Travelling is a great educational experience that is |
| Working in a foreign country is a great experience for | | | | hugely beneficial to young college students. Meeting |
| many college students. Often it is the first time they will | | | | others of different nationalities on their home ground |
| have been abroad and sometimes the first time they | | | | can be a strange experience for some. Being the |
| will be living outside the family home. It allows them to | | | | outsider is an experience that most of us have had |
| experience the freedoms that come with | | | | briefly at one point or another, but to experience it for |
| independence. With no parents to set rules for them, | | | | a prolonged period can be a great character builder. It |
| college students on a working holiday will be allowed to | | | | allows one to view life from a different experience |
| experience the freedom of the real world. At the | | | | and therefore develop tolerance for others through |
| same time the real world will very quickly instill | | | | understanding. Naturally, having a better understanding |
| responsibility and maturity. They will realize that they | | | | of other allows you to better communicate with a |
| have to look after themselves because no one else | | | | wider view of people. Temporarily living in a foreign |
| will do it. Monetarily, they will quickly realize how far | | | | country is also educational in the traditional sense that |
| money can take them, especially if they haven't taken | | | | travelers will through interaction with locals, learn about |
| savings with them. | | | | the foreign culture and the differences in views many |
| Working vacations are not all seriousness and | | | | people have, further building an understanding of |
| responsibility though. If you go through a working | | | | people in general. |
| holiday program such as IEP or Bunac, you will | | | | If you are considering an overseas excursion, it will well |
| generally be going to somewhere that a lot of other | | | | be worth your while. You will come back older and |
| working holiday participants will be going. Participants | | | | wiser. During the vacation part of a working vacation |
| will be travelling with like minded people, generally also | | | | you will have a lot of fun and meet many people |
| college students, so the atmosphere is fun, young, lively | | | | making some great friends. And you will develop an |
| and adventurous. The destinations are thus populated | | | | understanding of others that will make you a better |
| and one can expect a lively after-work-hours | | | | communicator all round. |
| environment with the many others who have the | | | | |