For students: international project as guide in the cathedral of Antwerp

Are you interested in arts ? Do you like to guide people in a cathedral (in your own language) ? Do you have an open mind to meet people from different European nationalities and Christians from others denominations ? And are you looking forward to live together with other students for 3 weeks and a half ?

Than maybe the international project to do guided tours in the Cathedral of Antwerpen (Antwerp,Belgium; Anversa,Belgio; Amberes, Belgica) can be a nice opportuni ty for you to have a extra-ordinary vacation this year.
The city of Rubens will be worthwhile; don't forget that our city was once a ‘Cultural Capital of Europe'. Antwerp is a very cheerful and flamboyant city and we hope you will be able to discover this aspect too.

Voluntariness is indeed the basic principle of our organisation; but we don't presume you will die from hunger and thirst. The Cathedral guaranties your lodgement, food and drinks, formation and documentation, entrances into museums and exhibitions in Antwerp.
For individual souvenirs, telephone-calls, drinks in bars and partially for the excursions you pay by yourself.

Our formation period will take 3 days before we will give our first guided tour. As you‘ll discover while reading the approximative timetable, each day we‘ll try to deepen out another aspect of the history of the Cathedral and of Antwerp. In other words you will get the opportunity to enrich your knowledge every day.

What is the program of an extra-ordinary working day ? Five days a week we offer 3 times a day a guided tour (in your own language) to the tourists of your language.
Every working day we have further formation about one aspect of the Cathedral and after a while we go to see other museums and churches.
And every day we have a oecumenical morning prayer, which will be prepared sometimes also by you.
Usually on Monday and on Saturday we organise trips to interesting sites all over Belgium (it is a small country).

The project 2009 will start on Wednesday 22nd of July 2009 (in the morning) while Saturday 14th of August 2009 is the last day that we do guided tours. So we leave Antwerp on the 15th in the afternoon.



If you are interested: Tel. 32-(0)3-226 52 53 
email: info@topa.be 
Or write to Fr. Rudi Mannaerts
Heilige Geeststraat 23
B-2000 Antwerpen
BELGIUM

Jean Verheyden