We want your funniest, most scandalous stories of your J1 adventures! Send an email with your 'J1 confession' to editor@oxygen.ie and we'll publish it here. Anonymity guaranteed!

Well, for me, the J1 was a summer of getting drunk for the first time and learned that age and sense go out the window when you discover alcohol!

My hazy recollections include days of beer pong and falling over on top of complete strangers, having near panic attacks over ‘illegally’ buying Southern Comfort and sliding it underneath my white dress, falling again and managing to fall on the bottle, crack it into a thousand pieces, cutting my leg and losing our only source of booze for the night.

Another fond recollection is of spilling an entire crate of beer over a pool table and being cordially asked to leave- at which point, I screamed the house down and threw grass on a sleeping baby. Great Summer!

Jennifer, 22, J1 to New Jersey

On a J1 you’ll be surprised how far you’ll go to save a few bob to put towards your weekly bottle of vodka. We robbed everything! Toilet paper, salt, cutlery. One of the girls even went as far as popping into our local twenty four hour shop after a night out to ask if they had any stale donuts!

Lucy, 21, J1 to Chicago

My funniest J1 memory is not the most savoury of sorts! I was working on a flower farm, with all these massive greenhouses and one day, this really hot girl and I were in one of them alone and we started at it like rabbits. What we forgot is that a greenhouse is all windows, and when we heard loud cries, we looked up to see that a tour group was standing right outside watching the show. I was pretty broke for the rest of the summer after that!

Paul, 24, J1 in Miami 

I am surprised we never got arrested in America. One night, the ‘cops’ were called to a party we organised on the roof of our apartment block. We were tipped off though and as they came up in the lift, sixty odd people legged it down the stairs to freedom. It was from this apartment we made another midnight getaway, when our rent got too high. Our taxi overflowing with bags, we posted the keys back through the letterbox. Our land lady was not too pleased, to say the least. Plenty of threatening texts followed, such as “Good luck getting out of the country”. We did, of course!
 

Sarah, 19, J1 in LA

I worked in a golfclub for the summer and I took a liking to a guy there. It just so happened that he was 17 and I was almost 21. Totally normal! In my defence, the guys look a LOT older than their age and he was really cute! Unfortunately, he was a little immature and when he finally got around to cheating on his girlfriend with me (hardest score of my life!) he decided to blame me for the whole thing. Six facebook friend requests later, I have accepted it just wasn't meant to be!

Lauren, 22, J1 in Philadelphia

A big group of us went to a Cubs game in Wrigleyfield (home of the cubs). To get into the spirit, my friend painted the Cubs symbol on all our faces. I noticed people were laughing at me but thought it was just because of the face paint. Turns out my symbol read Cunts instead of Cubs! I got her back though and she had to spend the rest of the evening with Ass across her forehead!

Ashley, 20, J1 in Chicago

One night, my friends and I thought it would be a good idea to try and crash a house party in New York. We loaded up on the drink before going and when we got there, we figured it would be grand because we were Irish and the guy that was having the party was Irish too… what we didn’t know was that he was throwing a soiree in his uncle’s Park Avenue apartment and when we arrived roaring our heads off, singing Amhran na Bhfiann, we were met by a lot of shocked and unimpressed faces. Needless to say, we weren’t ask to come back!

Tommy, 23, J1 to New York

It was always bright when we came home after a night out. We’d be walking in our bare feet, holding our shoes, still dressed from the night before as people jogged past or walked their dogs. One morning, we had to wait at the train station for someone. There were no free benches so we just sat on the ground. I think people actually thought we were homeless! #

Helena, 19, J1 in New York

My J1 was really weird because I spent most of it living in a house with four Russian girls. At nght, they would love to go nightswimming, because it was the only time you could go to the beach for free, so we would all go down and get ready for a swim. One night, I brought a friend from work and as we were all stripping down to our bikini’s, I turned to her and stopped mid sentence when I saw she had gotten completely starkers. I guess she thought we were going au naturalle, but the poor Russian girls nearly died of fright!

Amy, 21, J1 to New Jersey

In my friends’ apartment, most people slept in the attic. One night, one of the guys sleep walked over to the spiral stairs and pissed out over it! Luckily the people who usually sleep under the stairs weren’t home! Drink and cramped living spaces do strange things to people. Beware!

Darragh, 20, J1 to Huntington Beach