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Guardian Unlimited - Gap years - Informational resource on most aspects of a gap year.
Springboard Gap Year Information - Travel advice, the advantages and disadvantages of gap years, and information on potential destinations.
The Gap Year Guidebook - Provides information relating to work and travel opportunities for students during this period.
GapwWork - Casual work abroad for backpackers, travellers and students in Australia and Europe as well as Ibiza. Information on working holiday visas, tours, travel insurance, flights and health matters.
Go Gap - Guide for anyone thinking of using a GAP year to travel. Details the adventures of four students as they carried out budget travels around the world. Messages boards and country guides.
The Year Out Group - Packed with information for your year out or gap year and is supported by UCAS and DfEE. Lists student guidelines, providers, advisor information and contact details.
Gap Year Jobs - Directory of employment opportunities particularly suitable for students taking a gap year.
Voluntary Work Information Service - Information on volunteer work opportunities in over 150 countries worldwide in the environmental and humanitarian sectors.
BBC News - Talking Point - Are gap years a waste of time? - Discussion on the pro's and con's of gap years.
World Service Enquiry - Information and advice about working overseas and at home for peace, justice and development.
BBC News - More students opt for 'gap year' - Students are increasingly taking a "gap year" before beginning university, say admissions authorities.
GapYear.Com - Comprehensive gap year information site.
Volunteer Africa - Directory and information on voluntary and gap-year projects in Africa.
Payaway - News, features and listings for finding paid and voluntary seasonal jobs abroad, including tourism, childcare, camp, kibbutz and winter jobs.
GapProfile - Programme of open learning guides leading to a City and Guilds Profile of Achievement. Includes information for students, parents, teachers, employers and mentors.
Safetrek - Offers safety awareness and personal security training for young adults undertaking gap year activities and university education. Includes profile, personnel, FAQ, courses, booking form and location.
1st Contact - Resource for Australian, New Zealand, and South African travellers. Provides services and information for working holidays or short term working visas.
Echo - Not-for-profit volunteer gap year abroad organisation operating in Mexico providing conservation, education and humanitarian projects.
People Tree - India, Nepal and Sri Lankan projects. Resource to training and skills needed, visa and travel tips.
XL - Christian gap year opportunity for 18 - 25 year olds.
FindaGap.com - Gap Year and Backpacking directory includes placements, travel, hostels, adventure activities and insurance.
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Gap Years The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Gap Years We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Gap Years Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... -- Anonymous A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along Gap Years "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Gap Years It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen Gap Years One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams Gap Years blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson Gap Years This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb Gap Years You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West Gap Years The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford The child is the father of the man. -- William Wordsworth In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Gap Years Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand Gap Years "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Gap Years My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Gap Years Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Gap Years "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata Gap Years "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings Gap Years "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie Gap Years Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar Gap Years The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Gap Years Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -- Bertrand Russell "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet Gap Years "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Gap Years
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