Future Planning .... Emerson College have you heard of it?

[Arimiel]

Hi after a short holiday at my brothers (to help him and his wife.. she is expecting her second) i am back again.
Currenty i am not particulary font of the main portion of my family and want to go as far as possible. I quit school this winter and am now seeking for a way to suport myself while moving away. i am currenty writhing a few job aplications to biodynamic acriculture farms. But i do not now if i get a apprenticeship in germany within the year. Now i have found the site of the emerson college. It has a fulltime course called "Biodynamic Organic Agriculture Training – the Art of Farming". It seems quite good but I am quite sceptical... and I do not now if i could give away all my savings for the fees. And I really do not understand their side for the fees. Are those fees yearly or for all thre years together.... And did you hear about it? Where some of you there? Is it expencive or really cheap...What do you think?
http://www.emerson.org.uk/?s=courses&id=119 < fees

http://www.emerson.org.uk/index.php < main page

And do you lot know a way to trick the medical report? ^^ I am not mentally traumatised by something that was years back, as my mother took great pleasure convincing my doc of... i am just in the serve need of a break from the city and from her perfect family image....

[ina]

I've heard of Emerson - but that's about all I can tell you about it! Their fee page isn't very clear, is it... I think you'll need to mail them and ask to be a bit more particular. If the fees are for one year, I don't think it's very expensive; you'd have to pay that (at least) if you went to a "normal" college.

You could also try and go "wwoofing" for a while - that way you'd get experience in organic farming, and at least you don't have to pay for accommodation and food.

[marshlander]

Forest Row is a lovely area, beautiful countryside - lived nearby for 20 years - very alternative but both 'good' and 'bad' sides to alternative. Very easy to buy organic/ demiter food & untreated milk. Lots of alternative therapists, crafts people, artists and so on.
On the bad side, from my point of view, is that the area is a magnet for all the wacky cults as well. Best not to mention any specifically in case I upset a member but if the cap fits, wear it.
If you decide on Emerson do research the Steiner side of it.

[Arimiel]

ina- i have thought about wwoofing too .. but my problem is that i need a slightly more permantent solution... my mother is short of either looking me and my things down or throwing me out... and i have a problem with leaving my loved ones (my books and my kitchen utensile) behind.... and in germany is a serious education/appierenticeship shortage right now... if i do wwoofing for a longer time... nobody would take me... becouse i would be to old... urg... one year and i am twenty... nobody in germany takes an aperientice that old... -.- I am not wanted in this system.... or so i am told...

marshlander- thanks for the descriptions sounded good so far till you mentioned the wacky cults.. ^^ i have enough of them runing about in my city.. I do not realy need more of that.... and i read a little bit about steiner... (still need to read more) but i am slightly becoming sceptical... I am not into karma and such.... its an intressting concept... but i am more of a person who does not care about what happens after dead or if there is a god...Lost interesst as on I found out that there isn't a way to really know it... its only beliving and guessing to me.. ^^ ° Hmm.. more research....well.... i never let go of a opportunity to read....

[Clara]

Years ago when working as a carer for adults with learning difficulties,my OH took a group to Emerson and he´s never said anything about it being a cult, just that he and the group had a very nice time.

From what I know of the place, it is very highly thought of and if you could not do much better if you wanted to train in biodynamic farming.

[ina]

nobody in germany takes an aperientice that old... -.- I am not wanted in this system.... or so i am told...

Oh come on - have things deteriorated that much! I was 24 when I started my apprenticeship (farming); 27 when I started uni. And I wasn't the oldest! that was in the 80s, though.

That's seriously bad news. But it would always be good to have some practical experience before you go to college - OK, maybe you do already. Can't you put your stuff in storage somewhere, while you are looking around? No friend with a large garage (no, not mine, it's too full of "things that I need to keep because they might come in useful one day" already ), or with a shed... You wouldn't be able to take all your things along if you stayed at college, anyway. I don't know about Emerson college in particular, but, unlike in Germany, at colleges here they expect you to clear out and go home over the holidays... They often let the rooms to tourists. I remember the fuss they made when a mature undergraduate here in Aberdeen wanted to stay at college over Christmas, because he didn't fancy the company of his family (who, from what he told me, were all alcoholics and tended to get violent...).

You mentioned a medical report - do they ask for that here? Don't think I've ever had to do produce one.

[marshlander]

Here's a possibility

http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/jobs/di ... 04cb397590

[Arimiel]

Hey thank you all for the answers..... my concience tells me not to go to emrson because it could be that i need the money sometime ... typical me .. but i try and and apply at the appierentice link marshlander showed me .. and i am courrently applying for a few agriculturist appeientices on eco farms in the far outer edges of germany ^^ .. only downside to that... i will have to get a drivers licence... i hate driving.. and i hate cars....
none the less i am pretty excited...

[ina]

i will have to get a drivers licence... i hate driving.. and i hate cars....

You can't go into farming without a driver's licence - I think you'll have to accept that!

[Arimiel]

yeah i know.... but i do not have to like it....
well... its not that i really hate cars despite beeing enviroment poluters, but am a bit afraid of the other people driving...
but well i will probably be one of those people every other driver will curse because i am going to drive excactly as dictated by law.. most germans don't do that... even my mother who lost her husband and one of her daughters to car accident, drives constantly 15 km/h over the limit... and my brotherfollows his nvigation even trough a foot-passenger-only-street....
And i am really lucky that i amconstanty trying to note everything around me.. because i got almost hit by a drunk driving idiot who drove down a parking lot way to fast...
But i a have my practical sessions for driving now.. and my theroteical test sometim in the next two weeks... so no use crying about something i can not chance... ^^°

[ina]

most germans don't do that...

Believe me, it's not much better here. Although I do find that at least the Scots drive a lot less aggressively than the Germans; but it's worse in the South. I think it's because there is more traffic, folk just tend to try and get through - if they waited around for others, they'd never get home!