Oh! Hi! I'm so sorry, I didn't realize you'd commented. Work has just been running me ragged--44 hours this last week!! I haven't checked the computer in over a week.
Anyways, it is so exciting to read about what you've done--inspires me! From your journal I read about your experiences working on a farm in Iceland and being an au pair in Switzerland.
I'd like to be an au pair in Iceland, and then WWOOF in Scotland, because there seem to be many host farms there, it's very wild and beautiful, and it'd just be personally interesting because I have many Scottish ancestors.
My first choice was to work on a farm in Iceland, but I can't find any program like that for Americans that doesn't cost a lot of money. There's a really neat organization called ICYE that sends people to Iceland to volunteer on farms for a year, but there's no U.S. chapter. So I figure, I go to Iceland to be an au pair for a year, and while I'm there I keep my eyes and ears open for any opportunities that might present themselves.
So what was it like WWOOFing in NZ? I've found on discussion groups on the internet that a lot of people who try WWOOFing don't like it, because the hosts expect too much work, or they only take more experienced people. Was it like this for you?
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Anyways, it is so exciting to read about what you've done--inspires me! From your journal I read about your experiences working on a farm in Iceland and being an au pair in Switzerland.
I'd like to be an au pair in Iceland, and then WWOOF in Scotland, because there seem to be many host farms there, it's very wild and beautiful, and it'd just be personally interesting because I have many Scottish ancestors.
My first choice was to work on a farm in Iceland, but I can't find any program like that for Americans that doesn't cost a lot of money. There's a really neat organization called ICYE that sends people to Iceland to volunteer on farms for a year, but there's no U.S. chapter. So I figure, I go to Iceland to be an au pair for a year, and while I'm there I keep my eyes and ears open for any opportunities that might present themselves.
So what was it like WWOOFing in NZ? I've found on discussion groups on the internet that a lot of people who try WWOOFing don't like it, because the hosts expect too much work, or they only take more experienced people. Was it like this for you?
Yay! And welcome, friend.