Develop your professional skills: Teaching
Develop your professional skills with a gap year: teaching So you want to be a teacher – or maybe you’ve been at it for years. Either way, a gap year project involving …
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Annie’s Childcare Experience in Romania
I don’t really know why I chose Romania from Oyster’s destinations; I guess that I was just drawn to it, considering all the news about Ceauşescu’s orphanages in the past. I have …
Margaret and Nicky’s time in Nepal
Right from my first phone call to Oyster Worldwide I felt confident that we were going to have a fantastic trip and we were not disappointed. Firstly we met Basant in Kathmandu …
Why take a Gap Year Volunteering in Tanzania?
Past Oyster volunteer Emma Collins gives an inspirational account of her time in Tanzania. ‘One look at my photos and i’m back in Tanzania. I can smell Africa. It’s distinctive and it …
Full days spent in Nepal on Leila’s Gap Year
Leila spent 4 months as a volunteer teacher in a Nepali village with Oyster on her gap year in 2009/10. This is what she had to say about her typical day… “Nepali …
Romania: a country full of contrast!
When I have to describe Romania to friends and acquaintances, the first way that I would say about this fascinating, beautiful country is that it is a country of contrasts. From arriving …
Alice Reid writes about her incredible experience teaching and working in a Tanzanian orphanage
I cannot now imagine not having the experience that I have just had and I don’t know why I deliberated about having a gap year so much. It was a tremendous few …
Emma’s fantastic winter season teaching kids in Whistler Canada
I had always loved skiing and had a ski season on my to-do list for several years, so the opportunity to work in one of the best ski resorts in North America, …
Megan and her most amazing life-style experience in the Outback!
The last month and a half or so of my stay on Boongoondoo Station were spent doing the Mustering. What an exciting time it was. Out on the horses everyday, rounding up …
Leah Arnold gives us an insight into a typical day in Nepal…
I was teaching and living with a family in Tokha, a small and very traditional Newari village on the outskirts of Nepal. Every morning we were woken by the turkeys. At 5am …
