I need help and advice!!! I'm an American student who wants to go to France for a month...?
I travelled Europe last summer and this summer I have decided that I would like to go to France for a month in August. However, I really would appreciate some advice and opinions on the best way to go about it. I would ideally like to be in Paris. I want to go and possibly do some sort of internship or volunteer/mission program. If you have any information that you could provide me with that would be fabulous! Thank you.
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August is the worst month to visit Paris, as most of the locals head off to the beach for their summer holidays. If you can, I would suggest waiting until September.
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Paris is indeed deserted by many French people in August since it is the period when many firms close down for the annual summer holiday, retaining just a skeleton staff. You will not find an internship at that time of the year.There are very few openings for volunteer programmes and those that exist are not in Paris but as labourers or pickers on ecologically friendly farms in the depths of the countryside. If you are happy to go that way here is the website: http://www.wwoof.fr/eng/index.htm Bear in mind that as a non-European you are not allowed to seek paid employment. Another alternative would be to try to find an Au Pair job in Paris looking after the children of a family that is not going away and would need to have someone to look after their children, though they may find a month too short: the summer holidays for schools are from the end of June to the start of September. You would have to find an agency near where you live. Good Luck!
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