Travel abroad had been my dream since my childhood, but I had not had any money enough to allow such an amount for my travel for 1 year and 6 months, however I had only the will to complete my travel in safe along with learning something after I had departed for my journey to foreign countries English-speaking.
My travel was better than expected due to http://www.helpX.net whose purpose is to offer the online list of hosts, who are needed in workers, and guests, who are traveling workers, can contact each other in order to make work trade in the exchange between accomodation and work over the world.

At the first time when I had departed for my working travel to U.K., I had been excited but it had taken time a little longer till entering into U.K. I was a 39 years old female single traveler, even though I had the employment letter from my host who is a residential college near Oxfordshire and I came to contact by HELPX.NET.

My host was a good sponsor of mine as well as my sequencial hosts, and who had received a phone call from the immigration officer in the Heathro Air Port and had explained my employment state. Since I had entered U.K. I had been working in accordance with learning, traveling in several historical places in this world together with another workers under the staying state, such as WOOF participants, similiar to me.
I and co-workers from all over the world had enjoyed cooperative work, share in conversation and experience in projects. Especially I had learned English speaking by a retired English teacher and I think it was so flexible about to do something personal learning or volunteering that I could worked in my volunteering field of Art in my spare time and in the shifting interval between my next and existed host places. I could stayed in my friends' home, whom I had contacted through exchange program, too.

Departing for travel with the plan to spend almost only transportation fee is very adventurous but my travel was very confident on the cheap expenditure, ongoing work experience, meeting new workers and learning new culture by the service and my foreign friends whom I had known by he international exchange programs from all over the world.
They were similiar to me in the desire to travel in cheap, too. It was another cultural
exchange by offering accomodation each other.

In an inspired move which is from my good memories through travel and looking forward to trying to get another travel experience, I am studying to get another job and get improved at present after the traveling.
I hope to meet lots of persons through especially helpx.net in which I had already experienced feeling good and new friends still in another exchange programs over the world. I want to recommend the international exchange programs as a good company when persons want to travel, work to get a good experience, to meet new people to share something together and I hope that I can improve myself better through my world travel experiences as many as possible.

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