As an interpreter for a major translations company, I always thought that I would be doing a lot of international travel. I now see that we simply don’t have that much time.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. 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. 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. From your hotel room, there are many interesting culturally riveting sights to behold all from the living room window. This includes robed, barefoot monks filing out of their places of worship, carrying heavy metallic, highly decorated crockery. 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.

Down by the lake, where you will be working with resident potters, is a popular stop for tourists, who come to watch pottery being made and to buy vases, flowerpots, figurines, and urns. 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. As an Austin Translation Professional Services employee, you are probably wanting to check out some of the various cultural activities in the big city too.

If Chicago isn’t your style, then perhaps you might consider an arts-and-crafts holiday in the English countryside of Philadelphia. 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 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.

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