Saturday, 10 April 2010

My Gap Year

My gap year outline is as follows:
30th June
Last exam
3rd July - 6th January 
Work full time
10th January - 18th March
Ski le Gap!
circa. 25th March - 10th June
Travel
circa. 17th June - End of September
Ski instructing in NZ or AU (if I can secure a job!)

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” Robert Louis Stevenson
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Friday, 9 April 2010

Gap Year planning!

Planning is so exciting! I can barely contain my excitement every time I think about the world I'm going to see I get butterflies in my tummy, cliché, I know.
The thought of a gap year is liberating and you feel as though you can do anything... however, getting carried away is a slight problem. When actually getting down to the details and trying to bring a proper plan together you'll soon find the most free time of your life is constrained by many factors - well, when I say many I mean two main problems: time and money!
There are so many decisions that need to be made:
1) What do you want to achieve from your Gap Year?
2) How are you going to fund it?
3) Where do you want to go?
4) What do you want to do?
5) How do you plan on doing these things? e.g. trek, group tours, cruise, RTW flight, hotels, with friends/ alone.  
6) You won't be able to do everything your heart desires (whether your constraint is time or money) and you will need to prioritise your wishes.
Maybe some inspiration? 

"To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change." Charles Horton Cooley
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Wednesday, 7 April 2010

Welcome!

Hey ya'll!
I have finally made up my mind - I am going to take a gap year!
So, I decided to set up this blog to document my experiences - the good, the bad and the ugly ;) 
As my younger self would have once said: ''The World is my lobster" 
...and so I must devour it accordingly.  

“We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey." John Hope Franklin 
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