making plans for my gap year
As you could probably work out from either the fact that I’m doing A Levels, and that I tag everything as senior year, I’m leaving school at the end of this academic year. I’m not choosing to go to uni this year though, instead I’m following in the hallowed English school tradition of doing a gap year (pronounced gap yaaaar - if you don’t get the joke look up Jack Whitehall talking about it).
I won’t be 18 at the beginning of my gap year though, which means I can’t do a lot of the traditional gap year-y things, so planning it has been rather difficult. I hadn’t been able to find anything I wanted to do...until this week when I got offered two jobs in the space of twelve hours. I shall now be travelling and working as a nanny for a family and also working as a charity liaison for my alma mater.
So, what the aim of this post is is to reassure anyone who doesn’t know what they want to do when they leave school that they shouldn’t worry. I know that teachers and parents can get on your back about what you want to do, but honestly the universe has an amazing way of making things fall into place. To those of you who have absolutely no idea, just make the most of this year - you’re about to finish a process that you’ve been a part of for over a decade, so just take any opportunity you can (within reason of course) and enjoy this time. If people pressure you remember it’s your life, not theirs.
