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cirrypod

Gap year update

Mar 12, 2005 21:48

I have an update on the gap year situation. I am now almost certainly taking a gap year. I have decided the main place I am going to go to is Thailand, when I am there I will do like aid work of some sort. I was going to do the beach clearing thing but it’s well expensive. If anyone knows anywhere I can go to try to learn some Thai before I go ( Read more... )

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expo_in_tokyo69 March 12 2005, 14:44:09 UTC

Well actually Charco, turns out I may be on a Gap year too, because I really want to go to Royal Holloway.

A tip when speaking Thai, don't try and say, 'We are different,' as you did in your French oral and came out with, 'Sa me different.'

gap years cirrypod March 12 2005, 14:50:46 UTC

Well if you do then i will have someone to hangout with. What do you want to do on your gap year? why do you have to take one if you want to go Royal holloway?

Dont diss my french i got my C and thats all that matters

Re: gap years expo_in_tokyo69 March 12 2005, 15:14:57 UTC

I'm not dissing your French, I'm loving it! Infact in my oral retake I got an amazing D when almost a year beforehand I got a C. So pissed off about that.

Because I won't get the grades to go to Royal Holloway this year, there's only like a 5% chance of me actually getting in because I'm on ABC and my offer is ABB. So I'd have to retake modules, so I'd have to go for 2006 entry.

skippy_lou March 12 2005, 20:31:59 UTC

I got here from the comment you posted on Olivia's journal (Hi, I'm Amy).
I recommend going to Vietnam! I went in June and its fucking amazing

cirrypod March 14 2005, 12:38:17 UTC

Hi Amy i'm looking at the moment at lots of different projects but Vietnam does look fab what did you do when you were there?

skippy_lou March 15 2005, 04:41:10 UTC

We stayed in Ho Chi Minh for 3 days then went took a domestic flight to Nha Trang which is on the coast (wildest beach parties!!) then we went back to HCMC and spent the day at the Christina Noble foundation, unfortunately it was school holidays or something so hardly any of the kids were there, but we did meet two boys that my school sponsors and we had a tour and played with some of the kids who were still there and we had a look at the new school they were building.
There are a couple of foreigners (one was Irish) working there with the kids so you could contact them and ask about a bit of work experience. I'm not sure exactly what it involves doing, but when we went to Cambodia we had the opportunity to teach some of the children there and its heaps of fun and a valuable learning experience.

Good lord that was long.