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at BRGS Sixth Form: 2000-2002 |
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school: BRGS |
| Why did you take a gap year? - was it planned? | |
No! I only decided to do it at the last minute in June because I was offered a place on a team working at a Christian Arts Centre in London. |
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| What did you do on your gap year, and why? | |
| See above! It included loads of youth work, in primary and secondary schools, drama clubs, singing, dancing, office work, working in a theatre… | |
| What were the advantages of taking a gap year? What did you achieve? | |
Rehearsal
for the social side of uni! I wonder how
I would have coped living with the people
I lived with in first year if I had not grown
up a bit first. |
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| Were there any disadvantages to taking a gap year? | |
| Absolutely none. | |
| Was the university which offered you a place, happy for you to defer entry and take a gap year? | |
| Yes, no problem. Sometimes I wonder that as media is so oversubscribed that taking a gap year didn’t help secure my place even more firmly. | |
How did you raise money to fund yourself through your gap year? |
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| With great difficulty! My mum paid loads, as did my gran, but I also was supported a lot through my home church. | |
| Would you recommend what you did on your gap year to others? | |
| Yes, because it was London, and it was rather fun. But it was such a lot of hard work, which is hard to swallow when you are paying £3000 to do it! But there is no other way you could live in London for a year that cheaply. | |
| Any other comments about gap years: | |
| It is difficult money wise because if you have to pay to do it, it feels wrong to be paying out money when you know you really could do with saving it for going to uni. Obviously if you work for a year, you could save money, but living away from home in an organised environment again has it’s advantages. | |
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