Today is April fools day, and I feel like I have a million things to do. A couple of days last a couple of days ago I foudn out about a program that is virtually worldwide called the GAP program. In the GAP program you spend approx 6 months to a year away in another country, volunteering in some capacity. The areas that I'm most interested in are TEFL (teaching english as a foreign language) and the schooling program. I think it would be so interesting to see how children from another country would react to someone speaking in english, especially if they couldn't understand me very well. It'd be such a learning experience from both sides. I'd also love to become more familiar with another language, because I didn't have all that much exposure to different languages growing up in the schools that I went to. The only trouble is, despite this being such a great program, it costs an enormous amount to be involved. I tallied up all the costs and it would cost me roughly $7,000 (australian dollars). But I just don't know where to get all the money from. I thought about sponsorship, but the only trouble with that is that the sponsors themselves always want something out of it themselves and I don't know what I could offer apart from company exposure. I'd be learning a tonne of new skills and think that this program would be a great lead-in to a possible teaching based future (one of the directions that I consider a real possibility). But yet, I'm the daughter of a single mum and we don't earn very much - does anyone have suggestions as to what I might do, or awards or grants I might apply for? I've been searching about, but I haven't found very much so far.