WWOOF!

Emilie says her WWOOFing work experience was wonderful!

Emilie is twenty years old. She studied at Sainte-Marie and is now studying to be an engineer. At the end of her first year of university, she had to find work experience abroad during the summer. She chose to go WWOOFing!

“WWOOF” means “worldwide opportunities on organic farms” and wwoofing consists in volunteering on organic farms. She wanted to improve her English and do something useful and perhaps good fun. First, she had to fill in a request form on the WWOOF website and send a motivation letter. She found a job in two farms in the UK.

The first family who welcomed her paid for Emilie’s needs (work clothes, food, etc.). In exchange, she had to help the family to work the farm. But she wasn’t the only volunteer. She met a Swedish girls aged 20 like her, and a Canadian woman who was thirty years older. She worked with them and they ate their meals together. The farmers were vegetarian or vegan.

On the second farm, she met several other interesting people and tried other farm activities.

She really enjoyed her summer job and she recommends this experience to anybody who wants to learn English in a fun way and meet nice people.