You made it happen. You needed time removed from school. Essentially it was after college and before college, but even if you just thought you had to do it before college, wh
at is done is done. Today may be the first day of the rest of your life and if life teaches us any such thing, it teaches us that we should attempt to improve ourselves through self growth and advanced schooling.
However now comes that important issue. How to proceed? If you take a review of research, your peers made a decision to do activities which range from teaching the others, volunteering, or taking lessons in unrelated things, completely down to travelling and actual paid work that will be important as actual work experience.
If you would prefer some other person guide you by the hand, there are numerous structured programs for people getting year down, and on occasion even just deferring entry. Some are free, some expect you to spend them, and the others are volunteer work focused.
Most reported cause by people to take space year was to feel older. Or simply to figure things out. To learn they are proceeding in right direction in life.
Whatever you do, there's a very important factor you do not want to do. That factor is... nothing. Those who decide to waste their trip do not reap the benefits of it. Rather the contrary occurs. They get used to being lazy, and when they eventually try to attend university (or school) they believe it is more difficult as they're not used to the process advanced schooling demands from their store.
So take your time off, have your fun, but do not just forget about living. I'd personally recommend going, hiking through Europe if you are not from there, and through Usa of America and Canada if you're from Europe.