Planet Gap Year in German Newspaper, Der Spiegel

During July, Planet Gap Year was contacted by a German journalist working for the German Press Agency in Washington, DC. The journalist was interested in writing a report about the increasing trend among US-students taking a gap year, and discovered PlanetGapYear.com by researching gap year sites on line. The journalist also discovered Lauren Rhode, a student who deferred entrance to Princeton University, and took a gap year in Morocco.

Lauren's gap year story is published on our site. Lauren volunteered, learned Arabic, and traveled as a participant with the Global LABS program, during part of her gap year.

Read the article as it appeared on 9.1.08 in Der Spiegel,a popular German daily newspaper. You can translate it using Google or Yahoo free translation, or read the PDF.