Between completing my Sociology degree and beginning teacher training, i took a year off, enabling me to pay off my whopping student overdraft and spend three months travelling around in India. Much of this time was spent in Bristol working 15 hour days, seven days a week, as a directory enquiries operator. In those days this was quite unusual, but now it is pretty much commonplace. Indeed these GAP students travel, even before embarking on their graduate programmes.
I meet several here in Namibia. Young and pimply, they follow a similar trend. Usually from middle and upper middle class backgrounds, it’s their mummies and daddies who pay for this extravagance. Lucky bastards!
They all show a reluctance to return to England, and i can’t really blame them. I chat to three this morning who take pride in having arranged to sort out a postal vote in today’s UK General Election. I ask who they voted for and in unison they respond “Conservative”.
About Me
- Mountain Man
- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Mountain Man is a global citizen. He has lived in self-imposed exile from Britain for over 20 years, and has now relocated to his forth continent. He is currently the Director of an international school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A self-diagnosed dromomaniac, he has travelled on all seven continents at least twice, and has travelled through more than 70 countries. He is an over - qualified guru, free-lance photographer and writer, and humanitarian, with varied projects in Colombia, Haiti and Ethiopia. Mountain Man is addicted to strong sweet black coffee, loves good food and smokes an unhealthy amount of cigarettes.
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