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Fall Into the Gap: 7 Great reasons to take a Gap Year (part 2)
Sunday, August 9th, 2009
Here’s the last 4 reasons why you should take a gap year!
4. Get Qualified
A gap year isn’t just a year to waste away in hostels. It’s a year for you to get some experience and qualifications.
Get your TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) certificate or your Dive Master scuba diving License. Learn some new skills while volunteering on a farm in Australia or gain work experience while working for a winery in France. Learn how to cook at a restaurant in India or guide English tours through the pyramids in Egypt. I have personally met somebody who has done each of the things I have mentioned. All of them are always employed and happy because they’re doing what they are passionate about.
These types of qualifications and experience(s) will definitely make you stand out in any pile of resumes or school applications. (more…)
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Fall Into the Gap: 7 Great reasons to take a Gap Year (part 1)
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
If you’ve never heard of a “gap year” before, you need to know that it has nothing to do with wearing khaki’s and sweater vests.
A gap year has nothing to do with clothing. It’s a year that you take off from school (usually after finishing high school before entering college/university/the workforce) to travel, gain experience and meet new people.
Gap years have been popular in Europe for a while but they’re just now becoming more accepted in North America. Some people use this year to volunteer, some work to earn money, some people spend the whole time backpacking and others use it as a time to write and take pictures or all of the above. (more…)
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Got it for Cheap: 5 Tips to Travel Like a (poor) Pro!
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Alright, it’s no secret that I think traveling is one of the best ways to Make Your Own Lunch™ (click here for my true feelings). While traveling, you’ll get to experience stuff that you could never have experienced sitting on your mom’s sofa watching The Hills or playing Halo 3! And those experiences are what Make Your Own Lunch™ is all about!
If you Google the words “cheap travel”, you’ll end up getting over 34 million hits! That’s a little intense. Let’s make this a bit easier. Here are my secrets to traveling for less than it cost you to go watch the Hanna Montana movie in a theatre. (You thought nobody saw you?) (more…)
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How I Got to Teach English in Japan
Sunday, July 19th, 2009
Two of the questions I get asked the most by students is, 1) “did your mom really beat up Chuck Norris in a cage match?” and 2) “How did you get to live and work in Japan?”
The answer to the questions are 1) As the legend is told by the Shaolin monks, yes. And more importantly 2) I will tell you how I did it.
I have no idea why I chose Japan. When I was 21, I dropped out of college (I eventually went back and graduated), quit my job at Tom’s No Frills and moved out of my parent’s house. I was broke and on the edge of being homeless.
I knew I had to do something and knowing myself, I knew it would have to be drastic and rip me out of my comfort zone. (more…)
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Make Your Own Lunch – The Blog
Friday, July 17th, 2009
This is it. You asked for it so I deliver it, just like a pizza but with less garlic so you can still kiss someone after consuming it.
The Make Your Own Lunch™ blog.
This is the place for you to come and learn how you can Make Your Own Lunch™. (Psst, hey new guy, Make Your Own Lunch™ isn’t really about food… Click here to learn about it)
This blog is a place where you can learn about what other people have done to Make Their Own Lunch and how you can do the same. You’ll learn about travel, education, money, hygiene (if you have to pause to smell you shirt -and it smells like a Junior Whopper – I’m talking to you) and a lot of other cool stuff.
You wanna learn how you can volunteer in Thailand, working with sick elephants? That will be here here. You wanna know how I got the chance to move to Japan to teach English in the heart of Tokyo or how I backpacked across Europe and Central America? (more…)
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