Get paid to camp it up!

It's getting to the time of year when everyone's after a summer job...
Last summer, rather than learn Turkish and work in a warehouse, I decided to work on a campsite in France. Pretty much in the middle of nowhere, living in a garden shed, earning 6€ a day (about 12p), working with a German who spoke no English in a godforsaken region that Bismarck, Kaiser Wilhelm and Adolf H had done their best to wipe off the map. Despite the minor setbacks of rain, perennial boredom, the alcoholic handyman's attempts to sabotage everything and a complete lack of bars, scotch eggs or Cornish pasties I still managed to have some pretty random and fun experiences:

-playing poker with Dutch football hooligans and winning
-German bingo calling ( neunundsechzig!)
-beer racing with foul French lager
-partying with local chavs at the village fete
-climbing trees and nearly dying four times (saved by a Dutch commando)
-repetitive pedalo theft (à la Flintoff)
-teaching cricket to the French using a football and a stale baguette
-getting woken up by a donkey at 5am because its owner was "interfering" with it
-forming a folk trio with two German ladies for a brief time
-being mortally wounded on French dodgems with no seatbelts

Not so merde after all. Anyway, let us know about the coolest summer job you've ever had. Maybe you've served faggots and peas to the queen or polished Jimmy Saville's codpiece...let us know!