I found out about Project Trust through school; PT came and did a talk at my school about what they had to offer. The funny this is, I made quite a fuss before the talk because I really didn't want to go to that talk because 'I knew I didn't want to do a gap year, so why should I listen to someone talk about them'? Oh, how things change. I'm the only person out of everyone in my year who is going on a gap year. As soon as Kat (from PT) started talking about that kinds of things that were available I was hooked, and then when she said there was the opportunity to run a newspaper in Africa I knew that was exactly what I was going to do.
I'd always had this view of gap years: gap students I'd known and met had come from New Zealand/Australia/South Africa from a school similar to mine and come over to teach in England for a few months. Although I've always wanted to travel the world, particularly Africa, that sort of gap year never appealed in the slightest. I didn't want to go to a school like mine and teach secondary kids and spend my weekends like I do now, only in a warmer climate, maybe seeing some interesting things on my holidays. It wasn't the way I wanted to travel the world.