Official 'Gappies' Thread for 2011-2012 :D

I got back from two months in India a couple of days ago. If you have the chance to do something even remotely like that, I strongly advise you to do so.

woo sounds good
how was it?
(big question) was it expensive ?

It was very, very, very cool, and I have learned a lot (though I am only just at the start of collating my experiences). I wrote a blog very half-arsed-ly about some of it, it's at www.katherinesonagapyear.blogspot.in I'm going to update it with the end of the trip and my thoughts afterwards too.

I went with my parents, who insisted on paying for the majority of it ( ). I reckon you could do two months very easily (inc. flights) for £1500, and you could manage fine on £1000 by cutting down a bit on the accomodation (you'll be staying in concrete rooms, but they'll be clean if you do your research). Things like bus journeys are ridiculously cheap - a 3 hour ride can cost 10/20 rupees (13-26p). A night's accomodation can be 200-300 INR (I stayed in one place that was 70). The expensive thing is touristy sites where they know they can charge foreigners way more than Indians, so they charge Indians 10INR and foreigners as much as 500-1000.

i read a bit of your blog
its pretty amazing how much you experienced
what course are you gonna apply for (uni) ?

I've already applied, I'm going to be doing PPE at Oxford in October. You? Are you on a gap year now?

getting so bored of my gap year! starting to wish i hadnt taken one now

I've got my uni place sorted for September but i'm just doing nothing at the moment! There are no jobs going around my area so i can't afford to do anything. ugggh! i cant spend the next 6 months doing nothing such a waste... i should of planned this a bit better ¬_¬

Same but I didn't really have a choice about taking my gap year because I dropped out of my previous uni. I'm fed up of applying for jobs. Just hoping the next 6 months go quickly, I even have a countdown clock counting down the days. 188 days to go

I am hopefully gonna get into medicine this year (first timer with no offers and waiting on 1 last uni)

If not i will take a gap year and reapply

thats the same reason im on a gap year atm..but as bored as i am i dont regret dropping out i've been counting down the months since november :/ it hurts my head thinking about how longgggg it is away

I don't regret dropping out too, I know I wouldn't have been happy if I'd stayed but waiting to start again is taking so long!

Just another 6 months
Its just long taking each day as it comes i NEED to start

Don't know what your subject is, but how much are you doing to give yourself a head start at uni? Reading is giving me a really good focus for the times I'm in the UK (and did for the 6 months I spent unemployed and not travelling).

Ohh i'm going to be studying maths.. i've been doing alot of reading of what material i would be covering during the first year obviously i dont know everything i will be doing but i think i've given myself quite a decent headstart. Thanks for the advice though

Ah that's cool then

(I proper didn't mean that smiley btw, no idea how that got there)