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- Type: Article
- Author: Natalie Segovia
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
An experienced traveler, Natalie tries to convince herself that she's made the right decision to work abroad. I've spent the past two years of my life in and out of hostels in different cities in 12 different countries on three different continents....
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- Type: Article
- Author: Maria Madison
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Reluctantly, Maria attends a football game, where she discovers that there's more to Milan than fashion and food. This past week, after being dragged to The Louvre for the fourth time in a month, getting lost in the subway for the hundredth time, and...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Nikki Gladstone
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kait Bolongaro
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
How to see the most for the least. Regardless of whether your wanderlust or your insatiable curiosity about other cultures led you across the ocean, living in another country is the perfect opportunity to travel. From neighbouring cities to distant...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jessica Brook
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
The ultimate reward for a term teaching overseas. With the final term done and dusted, me, Nick, and another colleague Liz thought that we’d celebrate by heading to the coast for the Lost City trek. Billed as a less touristy alternative to Machu...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jessica Lockhart
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
Do overseas NGOs really want international volunteers? Absolutely, according to new research by Dr. Erin Barnhart. Research conducted by Dr. Erin Barnhart examines the impact of international volunteers overseas—but rather than speaking with...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Trina Moyles
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
For communities living on the edge of animal territory, nature rules. The first time that I saw a family of elephants emerge silently from the thick stand of spear grass that was lining the thin stretch of highway outside of Queen Elizabeth National...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Greg Snell
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Greg is ready to start the best job in the world in South Australia. The only problem? Tuberculosis. As a Canadian citizen I always figured it would be relatively easy to obtain my Australian Working Holiday Visa. I am under 30, in good health, no...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Allison Burney
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Sometimes as a ESL teacher, the students teach you more than you can teach them. Before setting off to teach English in Korea for a year, I had never really spent a significant amount of time around children, especially little ones. Sure, I had...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Judi Zienchuk
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Judi finds the perfect way to keep the adventure of study abroad alive. As my time at my academic exchange in Singapore was drawing to a close, I was swept over by an inevitable mix of emotions. These ranged from everything between depressing sadness...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Roop Gill
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
After living and studying in four cities in 15 months, Roop is surprised to find herself experiencing travel burnout. I am going to preface this post with a few notes: 1) I am very grateful to be able to travel as much as I do. 2) I am not bragging...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Roop Gill
- Category: Study Abroad
Sometimes, getting your parents on board can be the biggest hurdle of all. I am an only child, a girl and I come from a middle-class family—but I didn’t let any of that stand in my way when I had to convince my parents to let me study abroad. After...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kait Bolongaro
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Tips for enjoying the holiday season while studying abroad. As December vacations approach, the holiday season is just around the corner full of season’s greetings and a heartwarming ambiance. Everyone seems happier around the holidays as dreary...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Alyssa McDonald
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Leave the guidebook behind and connect with new friends. Have you ever been the only foreign person in a room of hundreds of locals? I have, many times. In the places I have chosen to travel, it’s easy to spot other foreigners or expats—and there have...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Alyssa McDonald
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
The highs and lows of unstable electricity (and there are little to no highs). Arriving home from seven-hour bus ride, I tiredly stumble into the compound that houses my volunteer organization's building and hostel. My phone is dead, but luckily I have...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Trina Moyles
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
The UN calls insects a sustainable food source. Trina calls them a delicious treat. November is a month to harvest, de-wing, fry, sell, devour and celebrate a Ugandan cultural delicacy. Grasshoppers, or nsenene as it’s locally known, flood the humid...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Nikki Gladstone
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Reconnecting during a volunteer abroad project. When you move abroad, be it for any length of time, you should consciously make an effort to disconnect yourself. Make a plan, set a day and for a few hours turn off the noise. It will be hard, but I...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Judi Zienchuk
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
A little bit of know-how can turn an uncomfortable overnight airport stay into an unforgettable mini vacation. Travelling on long-haul flights can be pain (read: basically an entire day in the air from Singapore to Toronto) and being stuck in an...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Alyssa McDonald
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Purchasing a one-way ticket seemed romantic, until it turned into disaster. I loved the idea of buying a one-way ticket. With no date or location to end my journey in Africa, I thought it was the best option for me. Plus, there was almost a romantic...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kait Bolongaro
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Freebies and swag galore: Kait's got the inside tip on student deals in Hamburg. So far, Hamburg has been a dream city for studying abroad. There are many wonderful opportunities for students: cheap city transport, free arts pass, low price for...
