Volunteering In France | Interning in France

Three times lucky and Emily tries her luck again at La Giraudiere as she returns for her third visit. Emily will be looking after the blog and keeping you informed of what has passed and what is happening.

The new web pages for the working holiday in France have gone live thanks to the July volunteers group at La Giraudiere. A special thanks to Janice from the UK and Kelly from the USA for all the hard work they have contributed.

The working holiday section has a new format and concentrates on the theme of working holiday in France.

You can visit the main page at null . The page provides information on the working project at La Giraudiere and also provides links to the application form and all the questions and answers that have been provided concerning the project.

Every thing stops for tea

There as also been a new addition to the working holiday section which explains the type of work that can be undertaken plus also what La Giraudiere needs in the way of Skills for the project the page is located at Working Holiday Project

Each of the different skills required will have their own web page and these pages should be updated over the next few weeks.

The volunteers project now has its own website subdomain situated at Volunteer in France take a while to visit the new website

and also take some time to tweet our site at  Tweet Volunteers in France on Twitter

and if you are on Facebook then please take time to   Follow Volunteers in France on Facebook

and you can now also plus+Google the volunteers in France

The new section of the website with it’s own domain for the volunteers project as gone live today. There is still lots of work to be done but the site is up and running at

Volunteers Abroad in France

The sub-domain will now be the volunteers own section and totally separated from any other of the projects and programs. There will be 20 plus pages with links to volunteers testimonials, the application form, maps, help for those travelling and much more to help those applying and those that are coming. For the first time ever the application form will be on-line for you to submit without having to request a link prior to applying.

More is on the way with a new study abroad and Internship section again with it’s own sub domain so watch this space as things hotten up.

Hello hello!

It’s maya again! The Australian kangaroo woman.

FRIDAY

On Friday morning we had Petra (originally from Germany but currently in London), Dan (English), Kelly (American), Courtney (American), Cullen (American) and I.

Soo Fridays of la Giraudiere begin our 4 day weekend. We had a 2 hour French ‘lecon’ in ‘Le matin.’ This is voluntary but well worth taking as the French teacher is very accomodating for all abilities of French.

Courtney and Dan left, they were heading to Paris! How exciting!

The afternoon was ours to go for an explore around the quiet country-side, a walk or bike ride… I finished another book and baked some chocolate almond cakes.

Petra cooked Friday evening. She made a Greek salad for the first course, the second course was Goulash – a Hungarian speciality and I mde a dark chocolate mousse with strawberries for dessert.

Paul encourages volunteers to participate in the local community’s activities so each Friday and Monday when the community has its local Pétanque gathering, we are all invited to attend.

Petra, Kelly and I went and played a game and chatted to some locals in French.. Afterwards we joined the locals for a post-pétanque drink and cheese and the best (and only) restaurant in Brossac, ‘st Bernard!’