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Published: November 29th 2009
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James It all started during GCSE Science in year 11. All students were issued with "Record books" personal planners designed to enhance the learning of each individual teenager. They didn't. Mine and 95% of all other students rarely- if ever used them and if they did it was only to write obscene messages about their class mates mothers or used as tools for the daily Speed Penis drawing competition!
One day, however I stumbled across a page which really did transform my life. It was a picture of the Globe with interesting facts about each country and pictures of its famous attractions. Sitting in Science daydreaming out of the window I began to yearn to visit these places and learn more about the fascinating cultures and customs which they all had. And after traveling with my Parents ( both Musicians who have visited just about every country known to man) to Japan this yearning turned into a full blown obsession. I read about the amazing experiences other people, people barely older then me, had whilst traveling and I began scrawling in round the world plans on my Globe picture in my Record book. None of my other friends seemed to share
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Max my passion for traveling. Except one. After boring my classmate to death with wild ideas about cycling from here to Mongolia (yes that was a serious plan) I happened to overhear one of my friends (Max) who at the time I didn't really "hang out with" (we just chilled out at lunchtimes etc) also plotting mad schemes to a scared looking Science student. It was the beginning of an infamous partnership! We then both started sitting next to each other our passion for traveling overriding the actual reason why we were there in the first place (too our Teachers surprise we both passed Science somehow 😊.
During College we still planned (you will find out that planning is not something we our very good at and often involves Alcohol or Marijuana) yet actually planned nothing because the dream of the epic Gap year was slowly being deflated by Money, Time and various other logistical problems. Until one day....on this day we said the time of planning is now OVER! We had both finished College we each had a thousand pounds from working full time so we decided to buy a round the world ticket and take a massive leap of faith into the Unknown. Now I think its important to say at this point that we are not very organized people, our planning style has been described as haphazard at best and suicidal at worst, we often plan on acts of divine spontaneity for one afternoon then descend back into the quagmire of not really doing much at all for a month. At present I am working in a horrendous job... stacking shelves and Max is working in an even more horrific job...stacking shelves, we aim to go away with 3500 pounds in March, we don't have much money and we are busting our guts out for 4 months to fund this trip. We take with us brains void of knowledge but hearts filled with passion the very same passion which is getting us through these dark ages of working.And every time I feel like giving up i remember that we have done what the majority of more organized richer, cleverer people wished they had done but never got round to doing, we ARE taking a Gap year!
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