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Seminar Time Lengths, Objectives, Goals, Activities, and Topics
A Whole New Way to Travel: Exchanging, Volunteering, Learning Vacations and Other Adventures Abroad Course
Length:
Three Hours
Objective:
Teach students about arranging, setting up, and enjoying several alternative travel programs including home exchanges, volunteer programs, and classes abroad.
Goals:
- Show students how to make their alternative travel experiences safer, more economical, and more enjoyable.
- Provide references to useful books, websites, and services that can help students successfully arrange their own volunteer experiences, home and hospitality exchanges, and learning adventures abroad.
- Give students ideas for arranging travel experiences that allow them to become a participant rather than an observer of daily life in a new environment.
Activities:
This is a lecture based class. Student questions and comments, however, are actively encouraged.
Topics:
- Volunteer Vacations (short term volunteer opportunities in another country)
- Longer Term Volunteer Experiences (such as the Peace Corps)
- Learning Vacations (short term?as short as one week?classes abroad)
- Hospitality Exchanges (free stays in people?s homes, usually for less than one week)
- People-to-People and Professional Exchange Programs
- Home Exchanges
- Specialty Tours (short, small group tours arranged around a particular theme)
- Inexpensive, alternative tours (like overland tours ? longer term, small group, camping tours).
- Staying at Bed and Breakfast Inns, Monasteries, and other unique alternatives to hotel accommodations
- Homestays (renting a room in someone?s home)
- Day Hosts (people who offer to show you around a city for free)
Escape the Rat Race: Live, Retire, and Work in the World?s Best Places
Course Length:
Three Hours
Objective:
Show students how to create and enjoy a new life on foreign soil.
Goals:
- Help students to decide if they are ready to live abroad.
- Provide valuable tips to help students prepare for their adventures.
- Show students how to make enough money to support their new lives abroad.
- Give students information to help them decide the best place for them to live abroad.
Activities:
This is a lecture based class. Student questions and comments, however, are actively encouraged.
Topics
- Arranging medical care
- Daily life in foreign country
- Adjusting to culture shock
- Buying a home in another country
- Renting a home overseas
- Learning a foreign language
- The best places to live and retire abroad
- Making a living in another country
- Legal requirements for living in other countries
- Moving belongings overseas
- The benefits of living in another country
- Costs of living overseas
Travel the World in Comfort for Less than Staying at Home
Course Length:
Three hours
Objective:
Ensure that students are equipped with the tools necessary to travel the world cheaply and comfortably.
Goals:
- Show students how to take advantage of low-cost, culturally relevant, and comfortable alternatives to high-cost hotels and tours.
- Help students to learn about very low-cost airfare alternatives.
- Provide useful tips for stretching funds on the road.
Activities:
This is a lecture based class. Student questions and comments, however, are actively encouraged.
Topics
- How the travel industry works (A consumer?s look at the industry?s economics)
- Negotiating reductions in hotels, car rentals, etc.
- The costs of traveling in different countries in the world
- Finding low cost airfares
- Unique ways to save money while traveling in the US and Europe
- When to find the cheapest travel opportunities
- Saving money in making travel arrangements
- Using guidebooks to help save money
- Unique ways to make money to help fund longer term travel
An Insider's Guide to California?s Best Hidden Tours
Course Length:
Three hours
Objective:
Show students some of the most interesting tours of California?s great public institutions, factories, historical neighborhoods, and landmarks.
Goals:
- Show students how to arrange tours.
- Give students useful tips for finding and enjoying tours.
- Whet their appetites to get out and see their own backyard.
Activities:
This class will be primarily a presentation highlighting some of the surprising places that can be seen on guided tours in California.
Topics:
In this class I discuss the mechanics of finding and enjoying tours first. Then I distribute postcards and talk about the highlights of approximately 20-25 tours in California. Generally these classes feature tours that are within the region (Northern or Southern California) where the class is taught.
The Ultimate Guide to Traveling, Living, Retiring, and Working in Mexico
Course Length:
Three Hours
Objective:
Show students how to live, work, travel, study, volunteer, and retire in Mexico. Reveal several hidden places in Mexico.
Goals:
Show students how to:
- Discover Mexico?s hidden colonial cities, beach towns, and natural landmarks.
- Study Spanish, arts and crafts, surfing, cooking, and other subjects.
- Retire, live, work, and volunteer in Mexico.
- Travel cheaply, safely, and comfortably around the country.
- Successfully make friends and do business in Mexico.
Activities:
This is a lecture based class. Student questions and comments, however, are actively encouraged.
Topics
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