Many people take gap years after school or after university. Most of them go to Private schools and sound and look the same. They will all have already climbed Mount Kilimanjaro for 'charity'. Here is the typical, least interesting Gap Year that can be taken by a British person:
1. Fly to Dubai, have picture taken with that Gherkin thing. Purchase shoddy ware and get into police trouble for making out with a guy / girl from Bolton. After that...
2. Bangkok, shop, talk to Ladyboys, and then...
3. Head to the Full Moon Party, refuse to acknowledge that English gap year students outnumber locals ten thousand to one.
4. Obligatory picture of them in that bay where 'The Beach' was filmed.
5. Rubber rings in Laos (although this appears to be more of an Australian thing to do).
6a. Cairns to Melbourne driving trip, stopping at the worst, most English-filled places along the way (I'm looking at you, Wake Up! bar in Sydney)
6b. Possibly do a road tour of the US- Retracing Route 66 if time allows.
7. Return to the United Kingdom, using Australian slang, tattoos, and white dreadlocks. Heads to university in Leeds, Edinburgh, Durham, Newcastle or Bristol. If they have been to university, become corporate fodder in finance company / parents company. Marry, reproduce, repeat with next generation.
All the while, taking so many pictures that you have to drop them as Facebook friend. At every location, have picture of yourself and friends jumping in the air on beach.
bubbling under: a trip to Rio De Janeiro - which seems to be a 6th form Common Room for posh people, and ski seasons in France or Canada.
In conclusion. Yes, I am jealous, I was going to fill this with pictures taken from Facebook of different people doing all of these things but posing in all the same photographs. I am jealous, but I also hate people being predictable and unoriginal, especially when they spend so much money on it.
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