Trying to find a full-time job for a few months. No luck yet.
Hope to disappear into the great blue yonder some time in the new year.
This, exactly.
I've had a few little typing things here and there, helped neighbours and plenty of other pathetic little attempts just to try and get some money while I search, but acquiring a full-time job seems to be impossible without any real previous experience.
In a perfect world I'd have found something by now, and be planning a brief 1 - 3 week travelling stint next year. So far, not so good.
Has anyone thought of interrailing? After I finish my 12 month contract I'll have about a month before uni, and I'd like to go interrailling around Europe for maybe 2 weeks. I think it'll be interesting. But of course, this all depends on funds
Oh God, I could never be an au pair. I'm rubbish at talking to children even in English. Good luck.
Me, I've just sent off a cartload of applications for seasonal work in France and Spain, so hopefully I'll get something. I don't ski or snowboard, but I want to learn whilst I'm there. I don't care if I'm doing rubbish work. I'll probably be portering, waitressing, washing up, but I don't care. Alps/Pyrenees =
For next summer I hope to apply to PGL. If I haven't gotten around to getting properly qualified to instruct by then I'll just go as a housekeeper person, but it would be nice to be useful (although again, I'm not great with kids... yet). Hopefully on the Med. Failing that, it's more grunt work in Canada, ideally either francophonic or the Rocky.
I wish I could just go backpacking, but I haven't a hope in hell of affording it and I don't have anyone to go with because none of my friends is takign a gap year
It's a bit scary, but I can't even begin to articulate how excited I am, and I know I won't regret it. I think I need it to get used to being independent but still have the assurance of somewhere to go back to if real life is too hard Should be great for confidence, people skills, communication, yadda yadda yadda.
Has anyone thought of interrailing? After I finish my 12 month contract I'll have about a month before uni, and I'd like to go interrailling around Europe for maybe 2 weeks. I think it'll be interesting. But of course, this all depends on funds
Oh god, I'd go with you I'd love to blow all my year's hard-earned cash on a couple of weeks of travelling. It'd be so cool I really wouldn't care abotu being poor again, I'm going to be poor anyway and I might not be able to afford it once I'm actually at uni.
Oh god, I'd go with you I'd love to blow all my year's hard-earned cash on a couple of weeks of travelling. It'd be so cool I really wouldn't care abotu being poor again, I'm going to be poor anyway and I might not be able to afford it once I'm actually at uni.
I don't think I'll be able to afford uni, but I think a gap year is an amazing opportunity for language students
Oh God, I could never be an au pair. I'm rubbish at talking to children even in English. Good luck.
Me, I've just sent off a cartload of applications for seasonal work in France and Spain, so hopefully I'll get something. I don't ski or snowboard, but I want to learn whilst I'm there. I don't care if I'm doing rubbish work. I'll probably be portering, waitressing, washing up, but I don't care. Alps/Pyrenees =
For next summer I hope to apply to PGL. If I haven't gotten around to getting properly qualified to instruct by then I'll just go as a housekeeper person, but it would be nice to be useful (although again, I'm not great with kids... yet). Hopefully on the Med. Failing that, it's more grunt work in Canada, ideally either francophonic or the Rocky.
I wish I could just go backpacking, but I haven't a hope in hell of affording it and I don't have anyone to go with because none of my friends is takign a gap year
It's a bit scary, but I can't even begin to articulate how excited I am, and I know I won't regret it. I think I need it to get used to being independent but still have the assurance of somewhere to go back to if real life is too hard Should be great for confidence, people skills, communication, yadda yadda yadda.
I was originally going to apply for hotel work in Germany/Austria, but then I thought of spending another year doing what I do now made me sad .
None of my friends are taking gap years either, in fact their initial response was
I don't believe I will regret it either. My parents think I will because my friends would have graduated 2 years before I will, and I'll be a year older than most people on my course. I think that is slightly niggling at me, if I'm perfectly honest. However, I there is always mature students who go to uni despite the age gaps and whatnot, there is the possibility of other gap year students, and as awful as it sounds, I'll be going down south whereas my friends will be staying up north with 5 hours between us...what's the chance of us staying in touch anyway for more than a couple of months?
I shan't be a language student. I might minor in at least one of them though, because I think I'll miss them.
I'm doing English, but I'm damned if I'm spending my gap year in England!
I cannot wait to get out.
Actually, I envy you . I am still deciding whether or not to reapply and do German and English Language, because I love English language, but I don't know . We'll see how we get on .
If you have to oppurtunity to do a gap year, u should totally go for it. In Norway its almost a common thing to do now, especially after high school.
I recommend that you travel, or live for a certain period of time in other country, because you do in fact learn a lot about yourself and life in general. In addition, maybe you even learn a new language.
My first gap year was after high school in Oslo. I worked the first 6months, then moved to Spain with 2friends, where we went to a language school and "studied" Spanish during 5-6months. Was amazing!!
Then I went back to Oslo to do my BSc, and last August I moved to Valencia, Spain, and here I have also done some Spanish studying, and I just finished passing this big Spanish exam for foreigerns who are fluent in Spanish.
This fall I'm starting my master degree in England, and I have more motivation that ever before. So I totally recommend you guys to go through with it, if you have any questions, just ask!!
I was originally going to apply for hotel work in Germany/Austria, but then I thought of spending another year doing what I do now made me sad .
None of my friends are taking gap years either, in fact their initial response was
I don't believe I will regret it either. My parents think I will because my friends would have graduated 2 years before I will, and I'll be a year older than most people on my course. I think that is slightly niggling at me, if I'm perfectly honest. However, I there is always mature students who go to uni despite the age gaps and whatnot, there is the possibility of other gap year students, and as awful as it sounds, I'll be going down south whereas my friends will be staying up north with 5 hours between us...what's the chance of us staying in touch anyway for more than a couple of months?
I've never worked in a hotel before, so I won't mind doing it for a couple of months. Not in a cool place like the Alps.
I think gap years used to be a lot more common, higher uni costs must have made them more unpopular. But I'm sure there will still be quite a few gap yearers starting at the same time. Most of my friends aren't having gap years because they can't afford it, so I'm not sure if they're more popular aong wealthier people. Anyway, we won't notice being a year older than some people, a year doesn't make that much difference anymore.
And it is a bit weird that I'll graduate two years after my friends, but I don't see that as a bad thing because a) I'll already have had a gap year (they all want to take theirs after uni, when they'll be even more skint than they are now), b) I'm going to uni in Scotland so financially it won't work out much more expensive, and c) I'll be two years older and more mature and experienced, all degreed up and ready to find a job. And I think that gap years after uni are scarier. And I'll have a better perspective of myself and life in general
And when I'm in England I fully intend to visit my friends at their unis and lol at how much work they have to do
If you have to oppurtunity to do a gap year, u should totally go for it. In Norway its almost a common thing to do now, especially after high school.
I recommend that you travel, or live for a certain period of time in other country, because you do in fact learn a lot about yourself and life in general. In addition, maybe you even learn a new language.
My first gap year was after high school in Oslo. I worked the first 6months, then moved to Spain with 2friends, where we went to a language school and "studied" Spanish during 5-6months. Was amazing!!
Then I went back to Oslo to do my BSc, and last August I moved to Valencia, Spain, and here I have also done some Spanish studying, and I just finished passing this big Spanish exam for foreigerns who are fluent in Spanish.
This fall I'm starting my master degree in England, and I have more motivation that ever before. So I totally recommend you guys to go through with it, if you have any questions, just ask!!
I have a question
When living a new country, how long did it take you to adapt to the new customs? Also, other than a language barrier, what were some of the problems you faced?
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Should be great for confidence, people skills, communication, yadda yadda yadda.
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. I am still deciding whether or not to reapply and do German and English Language, because I love English language, but I don't know 
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