Fingers crossed for next summer

I've been thinking about when I am actually going to go to Peru, and I think the best time will be next Summer, before my final year at uni starts. This will mean that I have a good two month gap between the end of term and potential resit exams (always the optimist!) to do some volunteer work and a few weeks of travel afterwards. The problem with waiting until the summer after I graduate is that the graduation ceremony will be at the end of July, and I'm hoping to have a good graduate place by early September, which doesn't give me much time, especially if I have to move house and buy smart "grown up" clothes and such in that small period of time also. As well as that, if I am going to use this as a point to future employers it will already be too late to sell it on my application forms to them, as all the applications are usually due in early that year i.e. January 2006. And dammit, if I've spent this much time, money, blood, sweat and tears at uni getting this degree I am damn well going to wear the silly hat and cape and shake Richard Attenborough's hand and have awful pictures taken at my graduation!!!

I think that this will really do an awful lot for my CV, especially if I can get some good experience in the field of health whcih I wouldn't be able to get in this country at all. Even the fact that I have done some time abroad, volunteering and travelling independently will be a great asset. As I never did a gap year between school and uni like many people, which is something I have always regretted, employers are more likely to hire me on a long-term basis if I have done some travelling at some point before starting work as it means I won't get all flighty like while I'm working for them and want to go off round the world and dump them. Well, that's one way of looking at it anyway.

Phew, that's a couple of long paragraphs! Off to do my proper work now - ick.