How do foreign students spend their holidays?

Participate in industrial study tours and 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. Travel 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 organize children's vacations with great emphasis on educational purposes rather than just entertainment 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. After all, summer vacation travel is a kind of high consumption. Even in France, not every family can afford it. Many low-income families, especially children of immigrant families, have almost no opportunity to travel. Some children in the suburbs of Paris even Never seen the sea. Recently, some social groups in France have launched charity activities, collecting funds through fundraising, and organizing children in local schools who have no chance to travel to do short-term overseas travel. Volunteer in the community. The winter vacation for primary and secondary schools in the United States is very short, usually only 10 days. However, most students still choose the winter vacation to complete their voluntary service work. 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 local homeless shelters, or painting old buildings. 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. The administrators of Reston Hospital said that 25% of the volunteers there are performed by teenagers, and the hospital cannot do without their help. Since more and more public schools in the United States have stipulated that students must complete a specified period of community service before graduating from high school, otherwise they will not be able to graduate. Therefore, winter vacation has become a great time for students to volunteer. There is no compensation for volunteering, but experts believe that volunteering is very beneficial to the growth of students and is an excellent exercise opportunity. 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 each year. Travel is an indispensable and endlessly discussed 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 took a trip of 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 study in countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States. 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 secondary 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. German primary and secondary school students can also spend holidays at their classmates’ homes. Schools, communities, etc. sometimes organize some activities, but most of them are one-day trips, such as outings, visits, etc. They rarely spend nights abroad, and even fewer go abroad. One-day trips are a popular travel activity for German primary and secondary school students. Most of these activities have the theme of getting close to nature, and the locations are usually natural parks, pastures, farms or scenic spots. Professional teachers, local officials, farmers or technicians will introduce the situation and explain relevant knowledge, and then they will disperse for free activities. When organizing such activities, the school dispatches many teachers. In addition to the teacher in charge of the class and professional teachers in related subjects, most of them also need to add several counselors and specialized doctors to ensure safety.

Primary school students endure hardship. When college students study in South Korea, primary school students usually participate in some activities organized by the school during their holidays. They leave home and go to some tourist destinations or wild mountains to climb and swim in order to cultivate team spirit and exercise their "tough" national temperament 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 vacation 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. It is more popular among Korean college students to use their holidays to travel and study abroad. In the past few years, most of them went to Europe and the United States. In recent years, more and more people have come to China. Since South Korea stipulates that college students must be able to speak English to find jobs, so college students go abroad during holidays not only for fun, but also to learn foreign languages ??and cultures. Nowadays, there are more exchanges with China, so more and more students are studying in China. College students basically pay for their travel expenses by working part-time.