Description

In Episode 1 Debbie explores the difference between student and grown-up gap years. She reminisces with her 88-year-old father about her first "gap year" when, as a 14-year-old, she was sent to school in France for one year. No, she was not allowed to go to Paris for a holiday break in the company of several 16-year-old boys. Then she interviews her three adult children who each took a gap year before starting university. It turns out that gap years are NOT wasted on the young.

Mentioned in episode

• Le Chambon-sur -Lignon in the Massif Central
• Collège Cévenol: the school Debbie attended in France is now closed, but that's a story for another day.

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Credits:

• Host: Debbie Weil
• Producer: Julie-Roxane Krikorian
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• Music by Manuel Senfft

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