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Description: "Gap year" (also known as "year out", "deferring", "Overseas Experience") is a prolonged period (often, but not always, ... more
Gap Years in general ... a year) between a student's completion of secondary school and matriculation in a university or college or also between college and graduate school or a profession. It is generally a practice undertaken by young people from anglophone nations with a great proportion of gap year students from one country effectively swapping with gap year students from another.

Newest Review: ... I had decided to take a break. Take a year off to decide what I wanted to do with my self. The Gap! For the first few months I basically chilled out at home, got drunk alot and took to the road for a few road trips around the Uk which last from a week to a month! This was great sleeping in the car going around the UK chilling out in pubs/bars/clubs etc. After this I decided to get away for a ... more

 ... few months and I ended up in Magluf for the start of the Holiday season, partying everynyt, sleeping all day. This lasted around 6 months until returning to the UK. In this time I realised it was time to start thinking about what I wanted to do! I start...more

LeedsMick
Premium Review Gap Years in general: The gap year and its help (302 words)
by LeedsMick - written on 16/08/08 (Useful, 40 readings)
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I would like to write about before my gap year, the gap year and after it in this review. Before After completing school I decided to stay on for sixth form but not been the brightest bulb about I failed my exams after trying my upmost which ruined the career path I had in mind originally. After this I had decided to take a break. Take a year off to decide what I wanted to do with my self. The Gap! For the first few months I basically chilled out at home, got drunk alot and took to the road for a few road trips around the Uk which last from a week to a month! This was great sleeping in the car going around the UK chilling out in pubs/bars/clubs ...

veedub79
Premium Review Take your time and plan!! (248 words)
by veedub79 - written on 08/11/06 (Useful, 103 readings)
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For many it is a chance to get away from the monotony of every day life. Do you really want to study for your whole life? Do you really know what you want? I have been lucky enough to live abroad the majority of my life, being home in England I found I wanted to stretch my legs, visit those places I always heard about, or go back to places I have fond childhood memories. Taking a gap year was not a choice for me, it was a must do. What ever you choose to do in your gap year, beit travel or work doing something you love, make sure you have the funds to get everything you possibly can out of it. Traveling is expensive, as a whole, but can ...

Madventurer
Premium Review Gap Years in general: Coaching Football in Ghana (150 words)
by Madventurer - written on 19/03/04 (Somewhat useful, 169 readings)
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A game of football immediately unites people from different backgrounds. Walk into a village in Ghana with a football and you will soon have 50 young friends screaming at you for the ball. You will experience the same reception if you were to walk into any other village in the country. Football consistently evokes excitement and creates friendships. It is Sportventurer?s aim to take the potential football has to influence people?s lives by creating projects that develop, motivate, inspire and unite young players across the world. By bringing together coaches from the UK with children from remote parts of the world, we are trying to realise this vision. ...

 
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