Just a thought on a year off

I highly recomend to take time off from the scholarly institution.
As a witness to my own life, I can attest that you will learn things that school does not have the capacity to teach you. The 'class' will be on yourself. Life will be your teacher for once.

In the past year I have learned more about myself then I have growning up during all my teen years. I have seperated it into three concrete and seperate parts all dealing with location. Because location has actually had a tremendous influence on my learning process.

1- Tofino
-Learned who I was
To a certain degree. But I figured out both good and bad things about myself. What I should change about myself and what I should grow and continue to do. I would say this was sort of like a 'comming of age' because I was not influenced by anything really other then myself. I was away from the media and submerged into nature. I could breathe again and because I wasn't distracted I had time to analyse myself and realise things and patterns about my personality.

2- Dublin
-Learned who 'They' were
This part had nothing to do with me at all. It was strictly about the 'others'. I was learning about a culture and people with whom I was becoming apart of. I was watching and learning. Adapting to a new lifestyle and figuring out how another society works and functions.

3- Europe
-Taking a course in Cultural history
Not that I chose to. But boy am I learning loads. For once, I am surely the outsider. Communicating in foreign languages and quickly adapting to their systems only to be replaced in another foregin situation. Truly thrilling.

You can't learn any of this in school, atleast not in a hands-on level.