Comments on: Ups and Downs in Cultural Exchange http://suzannesmomsblog.com/2011/08/19/ups-and-downs-in-cultural-exchange/ Arts, Environment, Families, Good Works, Luna & Stella Sun, 12 May 2013 10:00:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: suzannesmom http://suzannesmomsblog.com/2011/08/19/ups-and-downs-in-cultural-exchange/#comment-110 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:57:44 +0000 http://suzannesmomsblog.com/?p=613#comment-110 You might have been too young to find the hospital-cleaning job an interesting experience. Everyhthng has its own time.

]]> By: asakiyume http://suzannesmomsblog.com/2011/08/19/ups-and-downs-in-cultural-exchange/#comment-109 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:49:12 +0000 http://suzannesmomsblog.com/?p=613#comment-109 I remember the first time I went overseas, it was through a program like this: a working visa exchange program with Great Britain. Unfortunately, I was still too young and inexperienced to take advantage of it: you had to just jump in there and find a job, and I had never even done that in my own country (had had the remarkable good luck of sort of just falling into jobs), let alone a foreign one, so I ended up coming home. It was also a period of great unemployment in the part of England I was in (18 percent unemployment). There was one possible job: cleaning floors in the town hospital. I kind of wish I could go back in time and take the job–it would have been a great experience.

When the Tall One took his cross country train journey, he stayed at one point in a hostel in one of the national parks out west, and the people working there were all from Moldova.

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