Gap Year: a period, typically an academic year, taken by a student as a break between school and university or college education. In February 2003 aged 19 I left Europe for the first time, and headed to Maine USA on my Gap Year to work in a youth camp with high school kids. For some reason the USA always held a strange fascination as a teenager: whether it was the movies I'd watch, the music I'd listen to, the politics and socioeconomic events that shaped global affairs, it was all a window into a lifestyle and culture that seemed to offer everything and was so difficult to ignore. Things...
Gap Year: a period, typically an academic year, taken by a student as a break between school and university or college education. In February 2003 age...
