Gap year

Spaces and exchanges:         Gap Year

I'm going to talk about the notion of Spaces and exchanges. To begin with, I would like to give a definition of this concept: the notion of spaces and exchanges can be considered as the geographical and symbolic areas that all societies occupy as the interactions between men in different societies. To illustrate this, we may wonder if a gap year can be a rewarding experience. We will see in a first part the origin of the gap year, secondly, we will assess its benefits and drawbacks.

First of all, a gap year is a year off before entering university, gappers can escape the stress of exams and school while studying in the real world. The origin of the gap year started in the eighteen centuries, students travelled to study sciences, mathematics, literatures and medicines. Nowadays, students still travel for the same reasons thanks to European exchanges programs. Moreover, the number of students has increased like the number of programs, actually there are three different European programs: the Erasmus program, the Leonardo da Vinci program and the Comenius program.

Now that we established the origin of the gap year and the different programs helping students travel in Europe, we are going to move on to the advantages and the drawbacks of this gap year.

A gap year presents a lot of advantages. First of all, travelling around the world is an opportunity to meet people and to discover new cultures. It's a rewarding experience for students because they can do volunteer work and help poor people, moreover students can learn a foreign language. However, one of the major problems is money because parents have to support the travel and hotel cost of their children. The other disadvantages concern your own feel, you can be homesick about missing your family and your friends for a year.

To conclude, I think a gap year can be a rewarding experience for students. Even if on the one hand a gap year cost a lot of money.  The things that you see and the people you meet during your travel can teach you something that you wouldn't learn in class. Besides, you can develop yourself and become more open-minded than you were before traveling.

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