I have not disappeared but am currently doing the exam thing. I will return in the very near future...
I have not disappeared but am currently doing the exam thing. I will return in the very near future to gain the elusive 'blue'. Keep watching! Pen xxx.
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After completing the tiresome first year of my course at university and spending the same length of time in a mundane part time job behind a student bar I decided it was time for a change. This change being spending three and a half months living in a tent with four other people that I had never met before in a foreign country with only a very basic understanding of the language.
Over the summer of 2001 I worked as a Campsite Courier for Eurocamp. This is a holiday company that offers families the ideal camping experience. There is fixed accommodation on campsites all over Europe, mainly in France, so all the customer has to do is show up. Their customers are mainly British, German, Swiss, Dutch and Polish. The communication thing is easily combated by using broken languages, sign or with the help of some form of translator.
The campsite I was allocated to was absolutely gorgeous. It was peaceful and tranquil. Just what I had wanted. Things got even better when I met the 4 other people that I would be living/socialising/working with. I was the last person of the team to arrive and they had already made the four canvas walls feel like home.
For those of you who don’t know what a Campsite Courier does, it basically entails a lot of cleaning and customer service. The average day involved starting work at 9am cleaning accommodation (tents and mobile homes) that was going to be moved into that day. After a long lunch, afternoon reception had to be tended to. This is welcoming new guests and showing them into their accommodation.
A Campsite Courier will get one and half days off each week but if there is nothing to be done while on a shift then there is not a lot you can do about it. The pay seems low, £100 per week paid fortnightly, but there is no rent or bills to pay so the only necessary expenditure is food. We managed to get away with spending £10 a week each on food and we did eat well. What ever is left of that money is all yours for booze, clothes, souvenirs etc.
The social side of things is mad. There is lots of drinking and all the things that go hand in hand with that. Use your own imaginations. I met a crowd of people that would never normally have come across and everyone got along because we all had the lifestyle in common. Another campsite up the road was ideal for forming a bigger social group.
I saw a lot of the local area but that was through my choice. It would have possible just to lie on the beach at the end of the campsite on my days off. I had a fantastic summer and will always remember my summer in Southern Brittany.
I had the opportunity to do it again this year but I have turned down the offer. I have a long-term relationship thing going on and it was really difficult to mange it last year and I wouldn’t put myself or my fella through that again. That was only draw back of my summer abroad and I would say to people considering doing this or something similar to think about the down side of being away from family, friends and partners for so long.
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I was a holiday rep once which sounds pretty similar except the pay was a smidge better and we didn't have to clean anything! Plus we lived in hotels in resort....nice.
Andy.mack 11.09.2002 15:25
If i had actually made it to uni i would have been doing this durin the summer but i started full time work instead.
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