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10 Reasons Why Taking a Working Holiday is a Good Idea (Brooke Schoenman journals.worldnomads)

A working holiday is when you spend a significant amount of time in another country and have the working rights to back it up.  With this setup, you are able to pick up a job or two (or 6) and break that arrangement up by traveling or moving on to a new location in the country.  For the vagabond, this is the perfect situation that needs no selling.  For others who think it might sound appealing but still need that extra push, here are the reasons why taking part in a working holiday is a great idea to consider.

1.) A working holiday visa gives you longer to travel.

In general, a working holiday visa grants you access to a country for a longer period of time than a standard tourist visa.  In Australia, for example, the typical tourist visa is for 3 months when a working holiday visa grants you country-roaming rights for 12.  Even if you don't work at all, the working holiday visa could be a good option for the individual that wants to stay in Australia for as long as possible without needing to deal with exiting and entering multiple times for visa renewal.

 2.) The getaway is sustainable.

With a working holiday visa, you can work as you go, meaning you won't necessarily go into debt while spending time abroad.  Your method of travel may vary.  Some prefer to travel up-front for several months and then spend the rest of the time working in one or two different locations.  Others prefer to work for a month, travel for a month and then work for a month again.  Either way, the travel is sustainable in the sense that you can keep refilling your travel funds with casual employment.

 3.) You can leave sooner.

Without the need to save up thousands and thousands of dollars in advance, you can leave for overseas adventures sooner with a working holiday visa. If there is anything more of a downer when it comes to travel, it just might be the idea that you can't do it because of money problems.  The working holiday visa alleviates this issue.

 4.) It provides an opportunity to try your hand at various trades.

With a working holiday visa, you are basically given the opportunity to test out any type of job, and you are probably put in a position to accept ones that you normally wouldn't when at home.  You never know what you might discover.  Perhaps your perfect job might be one where you're working on a cattle ranch in the outback or serving up drinks at a pub in London.  Maybe you discover that street marketing is your forte.  A working holiday, in this sense, could end up being a life-changing experience.

5.) You can give your holiday more structure.

Many travelers find themselves, when staying in hostels night after night, participating in parties and drinking activities more often.  Not only does this cause you to deplete your travel funds, it might also lead you to doing less of the real travel activities you came for in the first place.  By splicing in some working here and there, it helps to put you on a schedule and keep your travels more structured.

 6.) A working holiday makes a good break.

A popular time to sign up for a working holiday is that break between high school and college or the break after college and before entering the real working world.  Later working holiday experiences are often used by individuals as a way to get out of a rutt with a job back home and have new choices.  The reason the working holiday is so great is because it allows for this break with some employment opportunities in the mix.

 7.) You may make more local friends.

When you're backpacking or jumping from place to place constantly, the majority of the people you meet – in hostels or on tours, for example – are simply other tourists.  By taking up employment in a country abroad, you are more likely to meet and make friends with the locals, and that can do wonders for really introducing you to a culture.

 8.) You gain a better cultural understanding.

There's really only so much you can do and learn in a country on short 2 week holidays.  While this may lead to a general understanding of a culture, there's no getting around how much more you will learn with an extended working holiday stay.  In addition, you will have actual working experience in a foreign country, which may or may not be of benefit to you on your return back home.

Q:

Why Taking a Working Holiday is a Good Idea

Is a working holiday a life-changing experience?

How do you plan a working holiday?

Which country do you want to visit most?

What do you the job markets in Taiwan?

Do you like traveling abroad? If yes, why?

How to make more local foreign friends?

How to introducing your own culture to foreign friends

Do you have any work experience in other countries?
 巧克力與情緒

Can chocolate give me a happy-high?by Josh Clark 

 

Eating chocolate is a hedonistic pursuit -- it's meant to provide pleasure and drive away pain. The look of these truffles makes us want to go for some hedonism right now.

Chocolate and Emotions

 

Even if the compounds found in chocolate may be too minute for some of us to get a chocolate happy high, the beloved food can still affect our happiness.

 

Psychologically speaking, happiness -- specifically, hedonism -- is the goal of our own self-interests. We actively pursue happiness, which is, at its core, pretty selfish. However, we can seek out our own happiness and make others happy at the same time. Charitable giving is a prime example of this: A 2007 study using functional MRI machines showed that acts of giving money to charities activate the reward center in the brain in the same way that it's activated when we receive money

 Q:What do you think about chocolate and emotions?

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283 missing in S. Korea ferry disaster  China post

A ferry carrying roughly 460 people, mostly high school students on an overnight trip to a tourist island, sank off South Korea's southern coast on Wednesday, leaving more than 280 people missing despite a frantic, hours-long rescue by dozens of ships and helicopters. At least four people were confirmed dead and 55 injured.Talk of the Day
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What do you think the 283 missing in S. Korea ferry disaster?

Produce, pork prices up on low production CNA

The average wholesale price of fruits in Taiwan has hit a high of NT$47 (US$1.56) per kilogram, up some NT$3 from just days ago and 52 percent from the same period last year, according to Taipei Agricultural Products Marketing Co.

Prices for bananas rose to NT$67 per kg Friday, 60 percent more than a year ago, while tomato prices jumped by an even higher 87 percent to NT$75 per kg, the company's website showed.

The following is a summary of an Apple Daily report on the price fluctuation:

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What do you think about the inserting price of pork and daily products?

Students rally for rights of hens  By Lee I-chia

Representatives of the Environment and Animal Society of Taiwan and university students dressed in chicken suits yesterday stage a protest at the Council of Agriculture, urging the council to pay attention to the abuse of laying hens.

Three students dressed as chickens were put in a small, uncomfortable cage to mimic egg-laying hens being raised in tiny battery cages, as they called for the council to set explicit regulations and policies for gradually phasing out what critics call an inhumane practice.

“Free the egg-laying hens” and “They are living creatures, not egg-producing machines,” the students shouted, while holding pictures of hens raised by four different methods — in battery cages, in enriched cages, in barns and free-range — to show the difference in the quality of their living environments.

Environment and Animal Society of Taiwan (台灣動物社會研究會) director Chen Yu-min (陳玉敏) said the council set minimum standards for three more humane egg production methods in January, but they are still too passive and ineffective.

The EU totally banned raising hens in battery cages in 2012, but in Taiwan, there are only 18 egg farms among a total of 1,716 — or about 1 percent — that apply the more hen-friendly methods, she added.
Q:
What do you think about animal rights?
What do you think about Students rally for rights of hens?
Do you like eat eggs?
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