Hi I'm Taz from South Korea currently living in Australia on a working holiday visa which allows me work and travel for up to 2 years
I came to Australia when i was 18 because i didn't want to live in Korea so i wanted to save money for uni and get permanent resident visa but the reality wasn't that easy. to get the visa you have to go to university in Aus but in Australia everything is so expensive. tuition fee is at least 30k AUD per year which is about 18500 Euro also after graduation you have to work for certain amount time and these are just minimum requirements nothing is guaranteed so i just gave up this plan and spent my earnings on traveling
One day one of my french friend was talking about the foreign legion after that I googled some information about the legion it seemed really interesting because as all backpacker do i really like to interact people all around the world and especially french citizenship but I never thought about joining until 2 months ago
My visa in Aus is almost coming to the end so I got nervous because as I said I didn't want to go home and when i go back i will get to do minimum wage jobs so i talked about it with my friend and he reminded me the legion, after that i seriously thought about joining for few weeks
Eventually i decided to join the legion and started to learn french, and work out. although it is really hard to do them while working construction for long hours but I'm still trying when i have free time and now I'm thinking to go Thailand to work out and study french cheaper with a tutor for 3 months or more and then fly to France
This is my story and plan also many thanks to the forum for all the information and motivation
I came to Australia when i was 18 because i didn't want to live in Korea so i wanted to save money for uni and get permanent resident visa but the reality wasn't that easy. to get the visa you have to go to university in Aus but in Australia everything is so expensive. tuition fee is at least 30k AUD per year which is about 18500 Euro also after graduation you have to work for certain amount time and these are just minimum requirements nothing is guaranteed so i just gave up this plan and spent my earnings on traveling
One day one of my french friend was talking about the foreign legion after that I googled some information about the legion it seemed really interesting because as all backpacker do i really like to interact people all around the world and especially french citizenship but I never thought about joining until 2 months ago
My visa in Aus is almost coming to the end so I got nervous because as I said I didn't want to go home and when i go back i will get to do minimum wage jobs so i talked about it with my friend and he reminded me the legion, after that i seriously thought about joining for few weeks
Eventually i decided to join the legion and started to learn french, and work out. although it is really hard to do them while working construction for long hours but I'm still trying when i have free time and now I'm thinking to go Thailand to work out and study french cheaper with a tutor for 3 months or more and then fly to France
This is my story and plan also many thanks to the forum for all the information and motivation