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[mondaysocks]

Hello,
i am currently a first year undergraduate student in england and would like to spend next summer working in spain to improve my spanish, get out of the country, and experience a bit of spanish culture. I've considered working as a holiday rep or at summer camps but think i would prefer to live in a city amongst spanish people. I was just wondeirng if anyone has any suggestions as to what i could do, as my spanish isn't great (i have completely a beginner's course in spanish language and will have finished the post-beginner's course by the end of next summer) but i've got experience in lots of odd end jobs and volunteered with children in india during my gap year. I think something in the tourist industry is probably my best bet but am open to ideas
thanks for reading!

[texkourgan]

Easy Expat's guide to Madrid offers some great info about summer/seasonal jobs in Spain: http://www.easyexpat.com/en/madrid/job/jobs.htm

i.e.
Camping agencies in Spain offer jobs during the peak tourist times in the summer.

Eurocamp (http://www.eurocamp.com) is the market-leader in self catering holidays to Europe on holiday parcs accross Europe. They often need for couriers on Spanish campsites. Employees must be over 18, and can anticipate earning approximately £95 per week.

PGL (http://www.pgl.co.uk) is a company that organises holidays for children and summercamps can be found in UK, France and Spain. They operate from Easter to October and during half terms as well.
Working for PGL as a helper or courier can earn you between £50 and £60 per week in Spain and board and bed is provided.

EuroSummerJob [http://www.eurosummerjobs.com] provides more than 1000 summer jobs offers throughout Europe.

There is also a new article on WWOOF which a unique opportunity to work on organic farms in exchange for room & board: http://easyexpat.blogexpat.com/blog/exp ... -the-world

Enjoy!