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[Bodast]

Well hai,
I just discovered I have to tell my tutors tomorrow/soon what my plans are for my year abroad (2008-09) - the only rules are that I have to get fluent in my two languages (French and Czech) and I'd prefer at least some employment stuff so I can.. uh.. pay for a room and stuff, though if I make a case for something original they'll give me some cash. And I don't want to spend the whole year in Prague and Paris.

So far I have:

Work for a couple of months at Disneyland Paris (try to get promoted to a dressing up position)
Do an internship at Prague Radio (they sometimes get to interview interesting people: actors who are filming thereabouts, politicians etc.)
Try to get a job at Ceska Televize (next year Smicer is doing Czech Rep's Premiership programme, I might get to make him coffee...)
Emm... au pair... a course at a university somewhere.

Any inspiring suggestions?
Thanks in advance

[Sam L4]

Once promoted to dressing up position, you should try and get promoted to rollercoaster tester. That's pretty much my dream job.

Why not invade one of the Czech states? I find that is the best way to pick up a new language, and it will show your tutors that you have drive and ambition.

[Humey Whilem]

Go to Belgium. They speak French in one half and they have amazing beers & music. Go work in one of the breweries, learn some Jacques Brel songs!

[pogofish]

If you are still wowed by the idea of "cool stuff", maybe you should get back to college till you grow-up a bit more? Go when you are ready to properly appreciate other countries?

Originally Posted by pogofish

If you are still wowed by the idea of "cool stuff", maybe you should get back to college till you grow-up a bit more? Go when you are ready to properly appreciate other countries?

What a ghastly fellow you are.

Everyone loves 'cool stuff'.

[Bodast]

Originally Posted by pogofish

If you are still wowed by the idea of "cool stuff", maybe you should get back to college till you grow-up a bit more? Go when you are ready to properly appreciate other countries?

My deepest and most sincere apologies. I would write a long defence of my worldliness detailing all of the splendid appreciation of other countries that I have already completed, but I feel it would be wasted on someone who evidently doesn't realise that 'cool' has an enormous range of meanings and could be substituted for various more literary words, but is appropriate, thanks to its versatility, for a casual discussion on an internet forum which is dominated by young people who use it here and there with abandon to express all manners of positive attitude, (or, for that matter, someone who deigns to send me "back to college" when he himself/she herself doesn't know that 'grow up' is not a hyphenated verb).

To the others, thanks for your ideas - WOW! - they sound really cool.

[Bodast]

Originally Posted by bob bouma

Go to Belgium. They speak French in one half and they have amazing beers & music. Go work in one of the breweries, learn some Jacques Brel songs!

By the way, I really like this idea (I had a vague idea of going to Northern France/Lille area anyway so it's quite close). What's the public transport like in the French speaking area as a whole, do you know? I was in Hasselt and I was really delighted, but I believe it's run by the mayor of each place. (?)

Originally Posted by Bodast

My deepest and most sincere apologies. I would write a long defence of my worldliness detailing all of the splendid appreciation of other countries that I have already completed, but I feel it would be wasted on someone who evidently doesn't realise that 'cool' has an enormous range of meanings and could be substituted for various more literary words, but is appropriate, thanks to its versatility, for a casual discussion on an internet forum which is dominated by young people who use it here and there with abandon to express all manners of positive attitude, (or, for that matter, someone who deigns to send me "back to college" when he himself/she herself doesn't know that 'grow up' is not a hyphenated verb).

To the others, thanks for your ideas - WOW! - they sound really cool.

unfortunately I cannot give reputation for this post but....nice one.

[pogofish]

Originally Posted by Bodast

but is appropriate, thanks to its versatility

You are kidding?