As I reached Turkey I felt sooo tired after the 3500 km. bicycle ride.
I had to decide a new way to continue my travels. And that is indeed a very freakin' difficult question.
I wrote many people to get an overview of the options I had. Basically you have endless options. I love to spend time writing to different places on the globe to search for job opportunities, volunteering camps or adventures that are offered. I never really agree with some of it, it just calms down a long term travelers heart to know that you actually could do this and that. Furthermore it excites me to dream about whats actually possible to do these days.
Well as you know I have no education at all. I graduated from high school and traveled on/off for 4 years now, so of cause I am considering my future once in a while.
I Canakkale I got into that "search-for-an-education-mode" again: and so I wrote to a very different university: School 4 Santa's.
I wanted to take a bachelor degree to become Santa Claus. From my point of view this sounded so cool. It was a great program to make fun of the education-focused times, I thought. None of all the busy people stuck to their job or education understand me when I reply their profession question with "I am just enjoying my life as if I would die tomorrow". With this Santa bachelor people would be able to rely on my profession. I would just say, "oh you see, I have a bachelor degree as Santa Claus. I know a lot about the history of christmas, I know a lot about what the kids usually ask for, what presents they like and I know exactly how to say Ho Ho Ho. I am totally in love with christmas. And how about yourself?".
I want to show you the conversation with an american Santa:
Hi at the Santa Claus School :)
First of all: you are the coolest university I know...
I am a 23 year old world traveler and my family are selling christmas trees for living (www.overgaard-juletraeer.dk).
Therefore Christmas has always been something very special for us.
I saw a documentary about studying to become a Santa Claus when I traveled by plane from Hong Kong to Singapore earlier this year and I found it very, very interesting.
In Denmark where I come from people are studying and studying, and I would love to answer study-questions with "well I have a bachelor degree... I studıed for 3... DAYS. And became Santa Claus"... How cool is that? Awesome!
I am currently working as travel writer for a danish newspaper and travel agency (www.luckyblog.dk)
So I want to ask:
Do you have courses running in 2012? If yes, how do I apply?
Hope to hear from you soon.
All the very best regards and merry Christmas
Tobias Hamann-Pedersen
Dear Tobias.
Thank you for your note. I offer my School4Santas about a dozen times a year, usually in cities across the United States. Currently I have five schools left this year beginning this weekend in New England (Boston area) and in the next five weeks, Seattle, Detroit, Atlanta and finally in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in conjunction with the Christmas Center and Museum.
In addition, each year I also offer one school aboard a Princess Cruise. In April we went to Hawaii. Next April it will be in the Caribbean.
I wish I had met you a year ago as last July we had forty Santas and wives go on a 14 day cruise from Copenhagen to Norway, Russia, Germany, Finland, Sweden and ending back in Copenhagen in time for the World Santa Congress where there were over 150 Santas from around the world. At the conclusion of last years congress, I taught a special one day School4Santas for the Santas of Denmark.
Please keep in touch and should you want more information on my School4Santas, please do not hesitate to send another note.
Santacerely,
"Santa Hollywood"
Santa Tim Connaghan
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