i am taking a year off before i start college.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A gap year, also known as a sabbatical year, is a year\u2019s break between high school and college/university, aimed at promoting a mature outlook with which to absorb the benefits of higher education. It also indicates a break before entry into graduate school. Activities range across advanced academic courses, extra-academic courses and non-academic courses, such as pre-college math courses, language studies, learning a trade, art studies, volunteer work, travel, internships, sports, cultural exchanges and more. In 1967 Project Trust sent its first three volunteers to Ethiopia from the UK. In 1972, Gap Activity Projects was founded in the UK and later renamed Lattitude Global Volunteering in 2008. In 1973, Graham \"Skroo\" Turner set up the company Topdeck, one of the first tour operators. In 1978, the Prince of Wales and Colonel John Blashford-Snell began what is now known as Raleigh International by launching Operation Drake, an expedition voyage around the world following Sir Francis Drake's route. In the United States, the gap year idea was promoted by Cornelius H. Bull to allow students more time to grow as a person, in 1980. In 2016 then-US President Obama's daughter, Malia, announced her Gap Year plans.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I am taking a gap year this year before starting college. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I wanted to take a break before graduate school, but I chose not to"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I wanted to use the year to clear my head and use the time to figure out what I really wanted to study. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah people do lots of activities. like travel, work, internships, language studies, etc"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Thats exactly my plan, I already know how to speak Spanish so I want to go over to Spain to be apart of the culture.  "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "You are not alone though, in 2016, even Obama's daughter Malia announced her plan for a gap year"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I saw that, I think you have to apart of a good family that will support you through this time though. I wish more kids could do this. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah sometimes it can be good to get time to mature and get a better outlook so you can go in with a better vision, but some people do not approve of that"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think it is way more common in Europe to do this rather than America. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "it is gaining traction in the united states, it was promoted a lot by cornellius bull, back in 1980"}]