What are you doing for your gap year? Whether you're half way through your career lifecycle or if you are a university student looking for a break to re-focus and re-calibrate, let your gap year be a year abroad teaching English.
A recent survey commissioned by STA Travel Australia found that 40% of young Australians will take a year-long break after school compared with 60% who take time out later in life.
While many young Australians look to the ski fields and seasonal work in Europe and North America, those who are doing the mid-career shuffle are more inclined to look for a cultural experience or a volunteer experience abroad where they get a sense of making a difference. Teaching abroad is fast becoming that opportunity.
Teaching English as a foreign language is now almost as popular as taking nanny. bar and ski resort jobs says STA Travel Product Manager Leanne Innes.
No matter when you choose to take your gap year travel, teaching abroad is one of those easy opportunities where you can really make a difference in someone's life.
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“A calm breeze lightly tosses my hair about, as I stroll the waterfront not far from my apartment. The waves crashing the shore have an intoxicating scent that propels all sorts of pleasant daydreaming. Am I in paradise? No I am most certainly not. But I am in a country I was dying to visit, and got more than I anticipated. Footprints Recruiting set me up with an ideal job that fits my teaching desires and has thus provided a backdrop to an amazing experience. I left for Korea in October of 2003, and I am currently teaching in Haeundae Beach Busan. Footprints takes care of you in a way that dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s are just the tip of the iceberg. I recommend this to the adventure seeking minds.”
