Gap year & Travel News

Hi, I’m Alex  – I’m in my second year studying History of Art at University, after taking a wonderful gap year with The Leap! My Gap Year began with The Leap in January 2009 when I jetted off to Ecuador (in South America) for 10 weeks on a team project. I spent some the most [...]

Hello! The leapers are enjoying their time in Venezuela and are hard at work on volunteer projects, practicing their Spanish, and polishing up their Merengue skills on the dance floor! Week 1 kicked off the La Piscina clean up and restoration project. This week they have been working on two projects, football training with a [...]

Hola! It’s Kaitlyn here- the Venezuela project leader. I just wanted to let you know that everything is going well here with the Leap team. After a VERY long flight on Tuesday they were exhausted so the pace of life here was a bit slow at first but they are adjusting just fine to life [...]

Sooooooooooo fourth week in Venezuela(!!)…and we have been extremely busy! Monday was our first encounter with Jakera club. We spent the afternoon planning an arts and crafts lesson. The time planning  consisted of ourselves returning to the age of 5 to make lanterns and crowns! At 3pm when we arrived at Jakera club we were [...]

Hola! As you know the girls arrived safe and sound after a very long and tiring flight. Although a bit jet lagged all the girls were happy to finally be here. The first few days consisted of introduction to lodge life and Venezuela. The girls had an intro meeting with me and then headed off [...]

Hey! This is Mike from the Venezuela team. I’m kinda sending a group email and it’s proving difficult with this crappy internet in Puerto lol! Just to let you know that we’re all having an AMAZING time! I’m glad we’re doing the daily blog now its good to keep you guys updated with all our [...]

Hola all! All is well with Leap Venezuela team. They are a fantastic bunch, full of enthusiasm and are very helpful in general. Last week we had 10 hrs of Spanish which all seem to have enjoyed and benefited from. We took them on a walk around Playa to meet the neighbours and see how [...]

Hi everyone back home, this is Brendan the Venezuela Team Leader…just a quick message to update you on all the January team have been up to since arriving on the Caribbean Coast 4 weeks ago… As discussed the first week was dedicated to orientation, understanding of the area and getting to terms with the rules [...]

Hola again! Hope all is well in England- is there still snow? It doesn’t seem real that there could be snow at home when it’s so hot here! Had a really nice 1st weekend just lazing and chilling out in the sun, there’s another backpacker lodge like ours in the village and they had a [...]

Thursday: Well here I am again, back on one of the world’s most beautiful beaches learning Spanish from a lovely language teacher whilst sunning myself, cerveza in hand. It’s a tough job working for The Leap, but someone’s got to do it! I can’t believe Alice and I have only been in Venezuela for 7 [...]