Internships

Today I started looking for internships. I actually applied for one over a week ago but they haven't contacted me at all and so I'm looking into other places. I actually saw one that was really interesting for Seattle University. It was a summer camp that dealt with immersion for students learning Mandarin and I would be a teacher's assistant. This meant I would help collect and grade papers but I would also be taught how to evaluate students' progress and other language teaching skills. The pay was $500 which wouldn't help me much at all. I'd need a place to stay after all and I doubt $500 would do it... It was two weeks long so a hotel room for two weeks for about $70/night... yeah, no, I'd have one week paid...
Then I noticed the camp was for the year 2010... not 2012..
I still might ask if the university is hosting the camp again this summer because the idea is really to be around the language as much as possible and that would definitely be helpful. Maybe now they offer more money too. I'll have to email the person and ask.
Anyway, there are a number of companies in Chicago that teach Chinese and deal with Chinese but I haven't seen any possible internships. I'll have to start emailing around asking if they need free/cheap labor.