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kafka.
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 3001 | August 5th, 2008 at 10:42am Anyone else considering taking/has taken a gap year?
I don't think I'll be able to take a full year, but I plan on spending at least a month or two somewhere abroad teaching kids English and arts.
I'd love to go to South America, but anywhere is fine, really.
So, any thoughts?
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ChemicallyImbalanced
Wordsmith
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 10186 | August 5th, 2008 at 01:11pm After I graduate, I plan to take a break for a while and travel around the world, see all the different places. Mostly I want to go to America to meet my Mibba friends, and then I plan to go to University after that.  |
chester.
-chester-
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 17627 | August 6th, 2008 at 01:37am I am unsure, part of me really wants to leave,like now. I want to go straight to uni in the biggest city I can get into- preferably Canberra or Sydney.
But then I always wanted to take a gap year, my ideal wouldbe to stay where I am for 6months and work (now that I have a decent job) and then go over to London to live/work for 6 months before going to Uni, but I don't think I could afford it.
If I don't go overseas I think I'll go straight to Uni because I can't stay here! |
Crookshanks
Amateur Author
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 258 | August 7th, 2008 at 05:25am I'd really love to go to Europe after I graduate. I just have no idea how I'm going to get the money. |
Maxwell Green.
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 69
Gender: Female
Posts: 551 | August 8th, 2008 at 04:29am My dad took a gap year, but it messed him up D:
But yeah, I would take one. Considering that when I graduate, i'll only be 18, and I probably won't know exactly what I want to do in life yet. Better to give myself an extra few months or year to figure it all out. Plus, it might end up being my only chance to travel! Different places I visit might inpact my proffesion. |
Gravity Thrill
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 1591 | August 10th, 2008 at 08:51pm I know I'm only fourteen and it's four years away but I like to plan ahead xD
I'm quarter Polish and I'd like to go to Poland to get in touch with my polish roots. I'd like to visit the village/town where my grandpa was born and any major places he went during the course of his life, especially towns that he was in during the war etc. I'd also like to see Auschwitz, just because of it's history etc.
Then I'd like to go to Australia to find my uncle. I've never met him and my dad hasn't seen him in 45 years. He left when my dad was 8 and hasn't spoken to my dad since. I'd just like to find him just so I know him. It's like there's this whole side of me I don't know. I'd so some work there and stuff ... I think it would be intresting.
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Patriots and Tyrants
Student Shakespeare
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 7016 | August 11th, 2008 at 02:43am I would love to take a gap year.
Go back home to Ireland for a bit, then go to America. 
Or Greece  |
Peter Petrelli.
Hero
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 26782 | August 11th, 2008 at 02:09pm I can't take one
Because I know I won't get back to education
I'll do all my travelling after I do my degree |
miatastic.
Ink Slinger
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 840 | August 11th, 2008 at 02:42pm I don't think I'm allowed to do that. I'll just have to wait until I graduate from college. Then again, that's not called a gap year. -_- |
zero;
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Posts: 1371 | August 11th, 2008 at 03:59pm I'm not sure, but my mother's letting me.
I skipped a grade (considerably two) and I'm12 now in Sophomore year.
My mom lets the option of skipping a year of school to be in my age group studying.
But I like it this way.
I'm the baby. 
If I'll hate the people I'm with, fucking sure. |
miatastic.
Ink Slinger
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 840 | August 11th, 2008 at 04:19pm ^ Wow. This is kinda off-topic but my friend's 12, and we're now juniors. She's also the baby. :]
Annnd, yeah, I asked my parents, and they won't let me. They want me to finish my schooling ASAP. |
TavarElda
Amateur Author
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Posts: 110 | August 14th, 2008 at 12:05pm I might take a working gap year, maybe travel if I can rake up enough money but really I'm just buying time trying to figure out what I'm going to do now I've finished school. |
himynameisbethany
Writer's Block
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 95 | August 14th, 2008 at 07:54pm I would like to take a gap year and just go crazy in america with some friends,But i have no clue where id get the money |
The Lovecraft
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 476 | August 14th, 2008 at 09:33pm Well, I've always thought of it, doing some volunteer work, then trying to go to university somewhere good, like the UK or the US, but I dunno, I don't think I could keep up with the pressure of waiting a whole year and then getting my life back on track. I need the safeness of three or four years during which I know what will be happening. I would be expecting something the whole time.
Plus, how do I tell my family "You know, I was thinking, what if I took a year off before college?"? They would immediately think I'm not going to college and not give me a break until I accepted going on time.
Not to mention that after that gap year, I'd be almost 21. I want to get my life started. And that means done schooling to me, for some reason. |
TavarElda
Amateur Author
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Posts: 110 | August 15th, 2008 at 10:23am Boheme Shit.:Plus, how do I tell my family "You know, I was thinking, what if I took a year off before college?"? They would immediately think I'm not going to college and not give me a break until I accepted going on time.
Over here in the UK you can do what's called a deferred entry where you apply and all that milarky and you make sure you have the grades to get in and that you've got a place but you just defer it till the following year....that might satisfy your parents, if they would otherwise think you weren't going. |
zero;
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Posts: 1371 | August 15th, 2008 at 01:04pm Taking a gap year would be hard, though.
You'll be used to the not-doing-anything-all-day routine you have when there's no school.
It's also hard to catch up.
And your friends that were in your year are now a year ahead of you, and you won't get to see them as much. |
TaintedxEyes.
Amateur Author
Age: 13
Gender: Female
Posts: 226 | September 6th, 2008 at 09:07pm I would not want to take a gap year.
I'm boring. XD! |
Freddie Mercury.
Grammar Guru
Age: 68
Gender: Male
Posts: 5552 | September 7th, 2008 at 11:55am I'm gonna take a gap year.
I'm younger than everyone in my grade by almost a year, most of them, so I figure, I've got a year to do bugger all so I can be even with those guys 
I plan to work for half the year, get some money, do bugger all, and travel for the other half. Go back to my families' roots and all the cliche junk |
Kurtni O'Hara
Database Error
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 3412 | September 8th, 2008 at 11:36pm I'd love to take a gap year, but it can totally ruin a good college application if you don't fill that year will productive things, so I probably won't. |
Bloodraine
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 1329 | September 9th, 2008 at 08:52pm A year in Spain or Latin America comes as part of the course I want to do at university. Lucky me.
The thing to bear in mind is that you can also take a gap year after graduating instead of before. |
