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#My fear of conversing in English disappeared #Experience of living abroad for an extended period #If you're unsure, I recommend that you go.
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"Before joining the gap year project, I was extremely afraid of communicating in English. After doing the gap year program, I''m not sure if my English skills improved, but the fear of conversing in English with foreigners has completely disappeared. I even intentionally say a word to a foreigner on the street to start a conversation!"
Don''t let English stress you anymore! Learn English while having fun in Cebu Oh Jihoon, gap-year participant (''gapper'') (25, university student) / 4-week gap year
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# If you''re going on an independent trip for a month, it would be great to travel and study at the same time!
Hello! I''m Jihoon Oh, 25 years old, currently attending university.
I had no overseas experience before. Then, in January this year, I traveled to Thailand through a program supported by my school. After that, my second trip abroad was to Cebu, and at first I hesitated a lot. ButNow I have no regrets at all and I mostly feel that it was the right decision to go!
I was planning to take a month-long independent trip to any country during the vacation. Then, through a friend''s recommendation, I visited the Gap Year website.While looking through the gap year programs, I thought that if I was going to travel independently for a month, it would be nice to both travel and study, so I applied for a language study program in Cebu, where I could enjoy myself.I applied.
Because I had previously spent over a week in Thailand, I wasn''t worried about staying for a longer period. I knew that overseas places are also where people live, so they''re not very different from Korea. However,What I was most worried about was that the Philippines is considered quite dangerous for Koreans... However, after staying there, I felt that while it''s not as safe as Korea, it''s not such a dangerous place.
I didn''t really prepare much before departure. I just packed clothes, lotion, toiletries, a laptop, and other necessary items. If there was anything I specifically prepared, it was printing two copies of my passport? That''s about it. I''m not the type to pack heavily when I travel, so I didn''t prepare much!
The goal I wanted to achieve through the gap year wasI wanted to try living abroad for an extended period, which is difficult to do once you get a job.A month isn''t an extremely long time, but I think even this one month is time that you can''t easily take if you''re not a student.
And the second goal wasto improve my English ability even a little.That was it. As a result, although I had been afraid of conversing in English, a big change was that that fear disappeared!
06:40 ~ 08:00 Morning Sparta class (mainly vocabulary)
08:00 ~ 08:40 Breakfast
08:40 ~ 10:15 Special class (speaking)
10:25 ~ 12:00 1:1 class (listening, speaking)
12:00 ~ 13:00 Lunch
13:00 ~ 14:35 Special class (business)
14:45 ~ 16:20 4:1 group discussion class
16:30 ~ 18:05 1:1 class (reading, writing)
18:05 ~ 19:00 Dinner
19:00 ~ 20:35 1:1 class (speaking)
I realized that the teachers in Cebu teach with great enthusiasm.Many of the teachers are in difficult situations, but they always greeted us cheerfully with smiles and seemed so happy no matter what they were doing.
And when I left they wrote me a letter and took pictures with me — it was so nice. During my gap year there was also Valentine''s Day, and we exchanged chocolates, which was lovely~
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