My GAP Experience - David

Summary of David's Gap experience in Salt Lake City and Nepal.

The Grand Dream - Tatori Life Coaching

• Tatori goals included living a healthy lifestyle, personal focus, college degree, career development, entrepreneurship, healthy family relationships, six-pack abs, healthy social life, adventure and snow skiing.

Salt Lake City

• Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician (WEMT) completed through the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS).

• Worked with a physical trainer.

• First 9 college credit hours earned from the University of Utah.

• Ski Program

• Employment at Market Street Grill

Nepal

• David went to Nepal to volunteer and lived in a Monastery.

• First month David taught English as a second language to school children, learned mindfulness, experienced the culture and explored the region as part of a group of 30 other students from around the world.

• Earthquake hits Katmandu. 28 of the students returned home.

• David and another young man from France stay to give service to the small villages outside of Katmandu.

• David creates a Go Fund Me account to raise money and to seek out additional supplies.

• David and his team borrow a truck and for two months picked up supplies from the Red Cross and drove into the mountains to help smaller villages that were not getting help.

Salt Lake City

• David returns to Salt Lake City and begins the Pacia Life entrepreneurship program.

• David lands a paid internship working for a carpet cleaning company.

• David also learns the whole business model including marketing, customer service, finances, licensing, maintenance of assets, etc.

• Today, David is in his senior year of college.