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Calling All Students By Rob Clement You have just finished your exams and you want to travel the world. But where do you go and how do you make
Calling All Students By Rob Clement You have just finished your exams and you want to travel the world. But where do you go and how do you make the right plans? Where do you want to go? Europe, Asia, Africa or America all beckon. It depends how far you want to travel, how much it costs and how much of a sense of adventure you have. You could take a Gap Year? Stop being a school-kid and start being a student. You will have a new level of responsibility for your own education and job prospects. Look for opportunities abroad for a year to see if you really want to teach (for example) or if it is not such a bright idea anymore. Also you have the opportunity to try out the other side of the world. Many Universities in the UK encourage their student to take a gap year to broaden their horizons and take the plunge into a more responsible lifestyle. What about three months in another continent? Where would you go? What do you want to see? If may be that the old houses and the museums and art galleries of Europe do not appeal, but what about where significant events happened in the First or Second World War. You may have a relative buried in Europe that never came home; maybe you have a war medal and want to see where it was won. There are places to go, people to see and food to be sampled. It will all be different, but you will know if that restaurant back home really sells good English, French, Italian or Austrian food as you have tasted the real thing. BEWARE. Yes I know Mom and Dad are nagging about drink and drugs and sex. So I don't need to continue the warnings. I will recommend that you either go with an organised group or with at least one buddy (same sex). It is just as cheap to have a twin-bedded room as a single room and you can look after one another. The one thing that is definite is that either you will come back from the holiday vowing never to see the person again or you will have a very close friend for the rest of your life. Are you a good judge of character? Do you trust everyone? One of the things you will need to have for the rest of your life is a good judgement of people's character. That is very necessary when you are having a few beers in a local bar and you feel you have had enough and some guys join you who want to be drinking something stronger. Have the courage to say no. If you do not say no then you could easily find yourself short of money when you wake up the following morning. You may think I am being melodramatic. If you are in your first year in college them find out from those second and third year students what their experience has been of travel and if there were any bad experiences. You will not have to search hard to find those who hit problems.
Copyright Rob is the web master at http://www.silkroadconsultants.com. A web site full of interesting and helpful travel tips.
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