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- Type: Article
- Author: Liam O'Donovan
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Liam takes on Hong Kong’s biggest beer festival, Beertopia, and learn a thing or two about the growing local craft beer scene. As a beer lover, one of the first things I did when I got to Hong Kong was take a stroll through the popular bar areas of the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Liam O'Donovan
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Four months ago Liam accepted an internship in a city he knew nothing about. Two months later, he was boarding a plane to Hong Kong. To say that my life over the past few months has been “different” would be an understatement. It’s been a whirlwind of...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Tiffany Wang
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Reconnecting with nature in one of the world's most cosmoplitan cities. When you spend most days caught up in the hustle and bustle of urban life, it’s easy to forget how rejuvenating the outdoors can be. I did. Luckily, one successful adventure is all...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Tiffany Wang
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
No car, no bike? No problem. One of the biggest lifestyle changes I made upon moving to Singapore five months ago was adopting buses and trains as my primary mode of transportation. As someone who grew up in the suburbs of the California Bay Area, I’ve...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Emily Kennedy
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
This isn't fear-mongering; it's reality. The thing about travel is that once you commit to a particular trip your mind begins to romanticize it—that is, of course, until you begin to research the lists of possible diseases and parasites in your...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Emily Kennedy
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Eight years ago, Emily had to cancel a trip to Africa. Now she's finally setting off for her dream continent. Every once in a while you just need to breathe. For me, that’s what travel is about—an opportunity to breathe. Like most, I have become a...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Roop Gill
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
When studying abroad, it's tempting to ditch the actual studying and head outdoors to explore. Roop shares tips on how to stay locked in during exam season. Canadians are going to hate me for rubbing this information in their faces, but London has had...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Natalie Segovia
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
The ski season has ended, leaving Nat searching for a new place to lay down roots. My time in Austria is coming to an end as all the snow is melting off the mountains that I have spent every day of the last five months playing around on. Conversations...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Crystal Collins
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Looking for a place to call home. I'm getting ready to leave my hotel to switch to the room I just rented. I keep recounting the memories I have had since I have been here. In a strange way, I'm really going to miss this room. The room I'm renting will...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Crystal Collins
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Settling in to a new land and culture. I’ve been here in India only a week and every single day has been an adventure! I’ve travelled to Jhansi, a city with so much culture and history, to set up my “home base.” This simply means that while I go on...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Crystal Collins
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
It Crystal's first time out of the country. Her destination? India. About four months ago, I was given the opportunity to go to India, with my employer sponsoring my voyage. I was a bit shocked. All of my life I have wanted to travel, especially to...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Mark Oprea
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Mark finds more than mermaids on an ambitious hike. “Don’t get too close to the edge,” Billy, the tour guide, said jocularly to us as we were exiting the bus. “Someone falls over every couple years or so.” Looking down the 210-metre drop, you really...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Trina Moyles
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Taking a traditional Mayan bath in Comitancillo, Guatemala. The arid highlands of northwestern Guatemala are a long way’s away from the low and lush coastal tropics where the trees practically topple over from the abundance of bananas, tangerines and...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Andrew Scott
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Scared of teaching English abroad? Andrew has the answer for you. So you're thinking about becoming a teacher overseas but you’re not sure about actually teaching? Or you think your spelling is atrocious and you know less about grammar than a desert...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Taylor St. John
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Find a job in Australia turns out to be a lot harder than Taylor, a working abroad pro, thought. About six months ago, I was sitting in the living room of my apartment in Queenstown, New Zealand, having a casual conversation with my partner, Richy,...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Verge Magazine
- Category: PhotoPro
And the winners are... On behalf of Verge Magazine, the Go Global Expo and Rough Guides, we are excited to present the winners of our seventh annual Travel With Purpose Photo Contest...(drum roll please)... Our grand prize of $1,000 goes to Steven...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Mark Oprea
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Mark tries to learn French in time for a trip to France. A week before my trip to Paris, I decided that I wanted to “talk pretty” (as writer David Sedaris says) as the Parisians do. I bought a secondhand phrasebook and began to practice saying key...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kait Bolongaro
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
The key to enjoying festivities in Germany. Carnival draws travellers from all over the world to southern Germany. While the Carnival in Cologne is the most famous, nearby cities offer the same festivities without the throng of tourists. Smaller towns...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Andrew Scott
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Four tips for learning a new language. In the past few years of bouncing around I’ve met some people who were adept at learning languages and others who dreaded it. I’d say I fall in the vast grey area between. But since stone is grey too, I’ve...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Natalie Segovia
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
What happens to "working abroad" when you lose your job? Since arriving in Austria things have not been what I expected them to be, but most definitely the unexpected happened on Monday—I lost my job, which also provided my accommodation. I have never...
