Interview With The Gappy
An old interview with Chloe P – when she was on her gap here. She loved it so much, that three years later and she’s still here! For nostalgia – here’s her original interview:
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I interviewed Chloe, a local student who has taken on a Gap Year and is spending a lot of time these days leading groups and shadowing Tim Gough around. She says, ‘I really wanted to be involved with YFC because it had done a lot for me growing up and it’s pretty cool – the job is basically just to muck around with people who are more fun than you! Epic times.’
Q: What is one of your favourite memories of being a young person in YFC?
A: ‘We invented the game table tennis without the table – I can’t remember what it was called but you lost if the ball hit the table – and it got kinda violent and crazy!’
Q: What are you going to be involved in this year?
A: ‘Wednesday Reverbs and LiteBite are the two main things I’m properly involved with, and then any away days that Redefine has, I’ll be there. I go to schools and church visits with Tim. I got called Tim’s assistant once, and at John Bright they call me ‘The Donut-Fascist-Dictator’ because I had one responsibility: to look after the donuts, and I took it a bit far!’ *laughing*
Q: Any favourite memories so far from the first couple of weeks?
A: ‘Getting my face stamped with the Reverb stamp!… and being mummified in loo roll in my second Reverb.’ *nods*
Q: The biggest challenges you think you’ll have to overcome this year?
A: ‘Figuring out how to use the dishwasher!’ (She gets more serious and thinks.) ‘And being more relatable for the young people at Reverb – being able to be an approachable person to them.’
Q: What do you want to do after YFC?
A: ‘I’ve got a place at Dundee Uni to do English and Film Studies that I’m quite excited about, but I’d like to stay involved with YFC somehow – I’m not sure how but I’ll make it work!’
Q: How can we pray for you?
A: ‘Pray to give me the energy to keep up with the other youth leaders – the kids I’m fine with!’
All in all, she says, ‘I’m really glad that I took the year out to do this. It’s much more than I actually thought I’d be involved with but it’s pretty epic, and really cool, and I’m meeting loads of cool people (the kids are teaching me to be cool).’ *grins*
