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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