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- Type: Article
- Author: Jonathon Cusack
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
The Godfather and Crazy Hour. This is a Colombian Wedding. No one falls in love like another person. For each person it's unique. When it happens when you're travelling, everything moves at an incredible pace. Together you flash through temporary...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jonathon Cusack
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
A way of living in the South American city. It takes a month. Just one month of living in a new city to fall into the belief that you own the place. Over this shortest amount of time you'll evolve through the streets from a cowering Neanderthal a...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Crystal Collins
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Crystal returns from India, but she's not saying goodbye. Due to unforeseen circumstances, I was unable to do any volunteering during my stay in India. I had a difficult time finding any free volunteer opportunities and when I finally had the chance, I...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Elizabeth Tokarz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
A race to return home. Ready. Set. The rumble of thunder serves as my start signal. I am rushing not to evade the downpour, but to catch the boat. I have two hours to return to the lab from the forest, to pick up a book, to sort and freeze my insect...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Gillian Jose-Riz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Three uniquely Argentinean excursions. The great thing about doing an internship in Cordoba is that it’s very easy to plan little excursions to surrounding towns every weekend. Throughout my internship, I have had the opportunity to explore various...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Gillian Jose-Riz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Three of Gillian's favourite songs from Argentina. When you’re a foreigner in a new place, you tend to spend less time with your headphones plugged in because you’re trying to be more cautious and aware. I realized that this has not only made me more...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Gillian Jose-Riz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Gillian experiences her first "forgata" in South America. I’ve had the opportunity to enjoy several cultural (and, not to mention, free) events in Córdoba that have increased my love for this city. Some fellow interns and I went to El paseo de las...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Crystal Collins
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
You don't know what you've got till it's gone. In my return to America, I have realized how much I have missed my home. But as each day passes, I am realizing how much I miss India, too. Because I lived in India, I have a whole new perspective about...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Mike Land
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Travelling on the kindness of strangers. On a hot Monday in Ft. Stockton, Texas, I was standing next to the giant roadrunner—and, unlike that resourceful desert bird, I was seeking the kindness of strangers. In this case, a woman—slender, 70-ish,...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Elizabeth Tokarz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Elizabeth tries not to let working abroad eat her alive. The leaves tickle me with their acuminate tips, but I am not amused. Weaving through the flora is how I find the herbivorous insects for the collection stage of the project and it is also how the...
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Am I in Panama?https://www.studyandgoabroad.org/articles/work-abroad/193-blogs/1301-am-i-in-panama
- Type: Article
- Author: Elizabeth Tokarz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Hitting the road in Central America. Am I in Panama? This is the first summer I have spent Independence Day away from home. As a French friend reminded me, the Fourth of July is not a universal holiday. I was not treated to my usual firework display...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Evelyn Robinson
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
How to communicate your overseas experience to employers. Moving my entire life to South Carolina last August, I knew that there was an unpredictable, unfamiliar and exciting journey ahead. Having returned home to Leeds, England, a year later, I’ve...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Taylor St. John
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Taylor struggles with homesickness in the midst of her second working year abroad. I was going to write this blog post about the struggles of feeling travel weary while living abroad. For a week I had been trying to sum up the vague feelings of...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Elizabeth Tokarz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Elizabeth explains one of the key functions of her research abroad project. Humans are very good at recognizing plants. Somewhere in our forgotten history, it was a matter of life and death whether or not we could remember which plant had provided...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Gillian Jose-Riz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
An inside look at an internship in Argentina. In the one month that I have been working for Fundación ICTUS, I have not only developed my understanding of marketing and communications, but also have had several insights that will strongly impact how I...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Emily Kennedy
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
What happens when the novelty of being the centre of attention wears off? Living abroad can be a life changing experience. For me, in many ways, it can take you out of your comfort zone and strengthen your ability to grow. As I alluded to earlier, I...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Emily Kennedy
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Giving your all doesn't mean never taking a day off. Travelling can mean many things to many people. The purpose of my current travels is to volunteer my time in three different communities in Ghana. This trip marks my first experience of this sort, as...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Emily Kennedy
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Sometimes the smallest (and hottest) changes are the hardest. I have been in Ghana for one week. To be fair, I tried to arrive with as few expectations as possible so that my experience wouldn't be tainted by North American perceptions. But one...
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World Cup Feverhttps://www.studyandgoabroad.org/articles/work-abroad/193-blogs/1290-world-cup-fever
- Type: Article
- Author: Elizabeth Tokarz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Elizabeth experiences the craze of football, Panama-style. World Cup fever is in the McDonald's Combos de la Copa promotion, the más movil phone company text message ads and on the soccer jerseys of every other passerby. During World Cup games, a crowd...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Elizabeth Tokarz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
It's the most-studied tropical forest in the world. Here's why and how you can get involved. Who? The predominantly U.S. federally-funded Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) has been investigating the tropics in Panama for over a century and...
