How do foreign students spend their summer vacation?

Participate in industrial study tours to make wine

French primary and secondary school students have many holidays. Schools and parents of students attach great importance to students’ life and play during holidays. Tourism is an important item in students’ summer life. .

The concept of vacationing abroad is not prominent in France. French people often choose which place is more suitable for their vacation taste, rather than the country. Of course, if you are traveling to China, Japan and other Asian countries, you need to make long-term plans.

Schools and parents pay great attention to educational purposes when organizing children's vacations, rather than just for recreation and fun. Recently, there has been an upsurge of industrial tourism in various parts of France. That is, factories and companies in various places receive visitors from all over the country during the annual holidays after making some technical preparations. The purpose is to expand the influence of the companies themselves. A considerable number of visitors are students. For example, French wine is very famous and enjoys a high reputation internationally. Therefore, many primary and secondary schools use their holidays to organize students to go on industrial tours to wine producing areas in western or southern France to gain a concrete and vivid understanding of the history and traditions of the French nation.

Go to the community to do voluntary work

The holidays in primary and secondary schools in the United States are not long, but most students still choose to complete their voluntary service work during the holidays.

According to statistics, more than 60% of teenagers over the age of 12 in the United States have participated in various voluntary service activities, such as cooking for homeless people in a local homeless shelter, or Buildings with old paint, etc. Some students like to travel to Central American countries to do volunteer work, but more young people are willing to choose their hometown as a place for voluntary service. Tom, a 16-year-old middle school student in California, performs voluntary service at a local hospital. He sometimes answers calls at the information desk and sometimes helps push post-operative patients back to the ward. He works 16 hours a week.

Go to a ranch to get close to nature

Among Western countries, Germany can be called the "champion" of vacations. According to statistics, Germans take one day off every three days. Students have more holidays. Generally speaking, German students enjoy about 150 days of various holidays in total every year.

Travel is an indispensable and never-ending topic in German life, and it has become a hobby of almost the whole society. According to statistics, in 1994, nearly 60% of Germans over the age of 14 traveled for at least 5 days. Therefore, the main activity of German college students during their holidays is to travel abroad. However, many German college students pay for their own travels and save money by working part-time. Therefore, most of them are very frugal when traveling. They do not have high requirements for food and accommodation, and their luggage is often just a backpack.

Many German college students use their holidays to travel to the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries for study tours. This kind of tourism is mainly for the purpose of learning a language. They live in local families, and in order to save money, most of them take on the job of doing housework for their hosts. Education departments at all levels of German government, many universities, and even some travel agencies also provide relevant consulting services to help students contact relevant institutions in other countries.

Primary and middle school students in Germany are not as lucky as college students. They cannot freely go out to work or go on "study tours", but mainly play at home. There are economic reasons for this, but the main ones are management and safety issues. According to relevant German laws, when organizing activities for minors, the organizer must bear all responsibilities, including relevant insurance. Minors are not allowed to travel without supervision. Even if the parents agree, the law will not pass and someone will sue you for abusing a minor. Due to the complicated organizational work, few institutions are willing to take on the responsibility of organizing such activities, and most schools are unwilling to ask for trouble. Therefore, although German children have a strong desire to travel, the vast majority of them can only satisfy this desire when they go on vacation with their parents.

Primary school students endure hardship while college students study

In South Korea, primary school students usually participate in some activities organized by the school during their holidays, leaving home to go to some tourist destinations or wild mountain climbing and swimming to cultivate team spirit and pass The national temperament of "toughness" is cultivated through hardship. Activity fees are usually paid by both the school and the individual. In religiously developed areas, churches sometimes provide financial support. Primary school students will also be arranged to go to temples to receive some Confucian ideological education.

The holiday life of college students is much richer. Many college students go to some domestic tourist destinations during holidays, such as Jeju Island, Gangwon Province, etc., mainly to play and climb mountains, and in winter they choose some ski resorts. Usually these places do not have special discounts for college students, and hotels do not provide discounted rooms for college students. Most students rent a local house together, which is cheap and convenient.

College students basically earn their travel expenses by working part-time.