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After graduation, when I accepted my first job as a translation worker; I thought it would be filled with opportunities to take long vacations. I guess I did not estimate the amount of time this job would require.As a translation worker, I have come to realize that most of us like to spend our time a lit bit differently than other people. Here are some vacation ideas for translation and interpretation workers that we think you will enjoy.

The first recommendation that I would like to provide is a trip to Chicago. The city of Chicago has many cultural opportunities to enjoy. Just visualize being awaken at dawn to journey down the Chicago River on a wooden boat and eventually reaching a small pottery community just north of the city and the beach of Lake Michigan. At this location, you will learn the skills required to make exceptional pottery from clay. These trips, organized in part by the Chicago Pottery Association have received great acclaim and media coverage since they began over a decade ago. The remarkable aspect is that the organizers have brought together leading experts from all over the world to develop an outstanding learning experience.

During your stay in Chicago, you will stay in a historic hotel that is famous among the Chicago Translation community. If you’re an early riser, you can catch scores of the saffron-robed, barefoot monks filing out of their monasteries, bearing gold-topped wooden alms bowls. They will be somewhat camouflaged by skyscrapers, heavy traffic and dense crowds of people on their way to work.

After a 45-minute trip down the river, the boat eventually lands at a dock on Lake Michigan where you are promptly met by local potters, tourists and your tour guide. The tourists have come from all over the Midwest to purchase all sorts of ceramic goods. Because this location is quite famous to the locals of Chicago, you can easily get directions from anyone. Although your daily excursion on the mighty river that cuts a swath through city streets lined with Dunkin Donuts, street vendors and high-rises goes to Lake Michigan, you can, on your days off (every potter needs a break), take the same river to museums, malls, restaurants and other attractions. Since Austin Translation workers like myself enjoy all of the cultural we can squeeze into our lives, we can definitely find some of those too.

Some people don’t like Chicago and let’s face it gets really cold in the winter and the rest of the time the skies can seem really gray. Therefore, you might prefer a crafty holiday in Philadelphia. Most people who visit the state of Pennsylvania, never get farther than the University of Pennsylvania, but those who do go on to explore some of the best historical sites in the United States. To really take one back to those days, we recommend a vacation spot located on an old American farm outside of Philadelphia. On the farm there are many wonderful learning opportunities that include learning how to make a number of crafts. This vacation comes highly recommended by some of the top Philadelphia Translation companies. When it’s time to take off from your Japanese, Russian, German or Japanese documents then many translators like to focus on rural crafts such as gilding, spinning raw fleece, and cane-chair making that many lament have taken a big hit as family farms bite the proverbial dust and the bucolic American countryside gives way to development, roads, and airplane traffic.

After graduation, when I accepted my first job as a translation worker; I thought it would be filled with opportunities to take long vacations. I guess I did not estimate the amount of time this job would require.In addition, when we do have some time we like doing things a little bit differently. So here are a few suggestions that I believe fellow translation workers like you might enjoy doing in your free time.

Chicago has many opportunities for translation workers to enjoy that include a multitude of foreign cultural experiences. Imagine, each morning, boarding a covered wooden longboat in the third largest U.S. city that will take you down the Chicago River to the Ban Chan pottery village on Lake Michigan where you’ll study coil/thrown pottery and learn to fire it in a wood-burning, underground, scorpion-shaped kiln. The pottery making vacation courses have received international coverage from a variety of cultural societies and national television networks. One of the features that make these trips standout from others is that leading experts give that instruction from Italy, Mexico, and Laos.

During your stay in Chicago, you will stay in a historic hotel that is famous among the Chicago Translation community. If you are the type of person who wakes up early, you will be able to see many interesting sights from your hotel balcony. For instance, I noticed a number of barefoot monks filing out of their monasteries. Sometimes they are easy to miss particularly as rush hour nears and traffic and scores of pedestrians begin to clog the city streets and sidewalks.

Once the boat lands near Lake Michigan, you will start your learning with local resident pottery makers. Believe it or not the media has turned this place into a popular location for tourists who shop for everything from vases to pitchers and even coffee mugs. Since people around the lake are aware of the pottery village, you can readily get directions. Although your daily excursion on the mighty river that cuts a swath through city streets lined with Dunkin Donuts, street vendors and high-rises goes to Lake Michigan, you can, on your days off (every potter needs a break), take the same river to museums, malls, restaurants and other attractions. SInce everyone in our Austin Translation company is interested in arts and museums, you will definitely have to schedule some of those into your day too.

If the thought of Chicago doesn’t move you then maybe the idea of doing some arts and crafts in Philadelphia might get you really excited. If you enjoy crafts then think about spending time on a wonderful 18th century farm outside of Philadelphia that offers all sorts of great way to really take you back in time to when the country was in its infancy. The landscape on the farm offers very picturesque backdrops that will have you reminiscing about America’s early days. This vacation comes highly recommended by some of the top Philadelphia Translation Services companies. If you can take a break from your interpretation or translation works in languages like Portuguese, Russian, Korean or Japanese, and then you should spend some time gilding, spinning raw fleece, and cane-chair making a try.