Many of the people embarking on gap year projects are young and wet behind the ears. However, the earlier you go away on your adventures, the longer you will have to forget about them in the future as your mind becomes crowded with responsibility of every-day life. That is why it is so important to document as much of your time away as possible, so that in years to come you will be able to look back and remember every second as if it were yesterday. So don’t just stick to taking photographs, but embrace the technology available to you today and find other innovative ways of recording every second.
Write a Blog
The upkeep and maintenance of a blog is an important skill to learn, so why not get started whilst you have something interesting to write about, such as what you are getting up to on your gap year projects. Not only will a well-kept blog exist for a long time once you get back from your trip as a way of preserving your memories, but it will also provide you with a way of sharing your news with family and friends whilst you are away. Blog posts can be as long or as short as you wish, and can incorporate as many photos as you desire, allowing you to keep a full record of each event so that you will remember it exactly as it happens. Moreover, friends and other people participating in gap year projects with you can also visit your blog and comment on your posts, adding a wonderful third dimension to this online and interactive version of a diary. Whether you consider yourself to be blessed with a certain amount of literary flair or not, the colloquial and informal nature of blogs will mean that your posts can say exactly what you wish them to.
Keep a Video Diary
We all love to watch a bit of television, and some love even more to be on it. During your time on gap year projects, what better way could there be to ensure that you capture every magical moment, than by keeping a video diary. From trips out into the game reserve, to encounters with animals, visits to the villages and entertaining evenings in the lodge, a video diary will not only allow you to remember every aspect of your trip exactly as it happened, but it will allow you to capture the opinions and thoughts of your fellow gappers on camera at the same time. Just think of the fun you will have watching the video back years after you’ve almost forgotten about your gap year projects.
Online postcards
Everybody loves to receive postcards from friends and family away in other countries. However, the logistics of this if you are taking part in gap year projects on a game reserve in the South African wilderness are far from simple. Fortunately, the invention of online postcards has solved some of these problems, allowing you to send a postcard via email, wherever you are in the world. Allowing you to maintain the authentic and personal nature of a postcard without the hassle of finding a stamp and a post box, this easy way of sharing your news will enable you to write home more regularly. All that remains then, is to ensure that the person to whom you are sending the postcards remembers to save them for you. In years to come, you will then be able to piece together every element of the gap year projects you took part in, by piecing together the postcards.
So, whilst you’re away taking part in gap year projects, be sure to document as much as possible in one way or another - with the abundant technology out there today, it is easier than ever before. Not only will you be able to return to each form of diary when you get hit by nostalgia, but you will always be able to answer the question when someone asks you what you did during your gap year.
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