Cultural exchange between New Zealand and France

This is to announce the arrival of another volunteer at La Giraudière. Carolyn from New Zealand will be helping out for 3 weeks and is hoping to improve her French language skills (which are already very good) during her stay by taking part in local activities as often as possible and by communicating with the local community on a daily basis. Furthermore, she loves the idea of being part of an international team and working in a multicultural environment.

Back at home Carolyn works for the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to arrange and support people from developing countries to come to New Zealand for study at university on a scholarship. She is taking a month’s holiday and is coming to France to immerse herself in a useful project with other people for 3 weeks rather than travel alone for the whole month. In addition to her work responsibilities she also does a lot of environmental volunteer work (planting and weeding) near home. Moreover, she has also volunteered in a village with no running water or electricity in Thailand which she enjoyed a lot. Furthermore, Carolyn has also worked as an English teacher for people from many different countries.

Carolyn carrying out some building and construction work under the sun

Due to her excellent CV Carolyn can provide help with everything that is needed. She started as a gardener to do some weeding and to plant new flowers. During the next days and weeks she might also be carrying out some painting, do some administrative work or take over the work of our household manager.

Welcome to La Giraudière Carolyn! We are very happy to have you here and look forward to working with you and finding out more about your exciting and interesting work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New Zealand.