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- Type: Article
- Author: Kait Bolongaro
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
How to make local friends while studying abroad. When studying abroad, it’s certainly easier to be only friends with other international students, particularly those from a similar background. They are undergoing the same new experiences in a foreign...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Allison Burney
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Allison looks past the homesickness and culture shock. Unfortunately, living in a foreign country for a year doesn’t mean that the life you’re used to back home will stop and wait for you. In fact, there are times when it feels like it’s leaving you...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Trina Moyles
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Trina learns that living is less romantic than travel. Living in another country skews one’s sense of self. The days are crawling towards the end of 2013 and I’m about to complete my 365-day cycle of living, working and culturally stumbling about in...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Taylor St. John
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
A last-minute plan turns into a lasting impression when Taylor moves to Raglan, New Zealand. A couple weeks ago, I was out for a morning run with a friend when a commercial truck, painted blue with funky wave designs, drove by. “That’s Todd. He lives...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Anna Sawchuk
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Living without modern-day distractions in the jungles of Thailand. After a sweaty but unforgettable six-hour trek through the jungles of Chiang Rai we finally made it to J’Ga, a Hill Tribe village consisting of only 20 people—talk about travelling off...
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- Type: Article
- Author: James Stairs
- Category: Work Abroad
The first in our new series of videos exploring international careers, and ways to make a living from your passion. Meet Mark Rogers, who runs the only freediving operation in the Caribbean.
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- Type: Article
- Author: Amber Birch
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Experiencing life with a host family while working abroad. There are plenty of reasons that are already well known to praise the working or studying abroad—it’s a great experience and you get to travel. But there is so much more to going abroad than...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Alana Fata
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Preparing for typhoons while working abroad. Throughout the interview process and the subsequent, necessary preparation to leave my family home in Toronto and travel to Vietnam, I had been warned. The “rainy season” was a quiet threat that was hidden...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kait Bolongaro
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Making the most of a semester overseas by brushing up on a second language. Perhaps the most practical app on my smartphone is a German-English dictionary. It has been a few days since my arrival to my new city, Hamburg, and this portable translator...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Trina Moyles
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Trina contemplates the Rwandan side of the border; taxis, borders and brioche. I think that the idea that love can transcend all borders is really nice and all, but there are just some things that can’t (and shouldn’t) move across borders. Take the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: James Stairs
- Category: Work Abroad
Seduced by the laid-back charm of the tiny island of Utila, Mark Rogers established the first freediving certification program in the Caribbean—and made the island his home. Watch the freediving video here> Time management for most people on the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Roop Gill
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Roop lists out the features of a student-friendly big city. I just started the final leg of my cross-continental MA in London. Since the first time I visited London when I was 11, I have always wanted to live here. It has history, culture and...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jessica Dante
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
It wasn't Jessica's top choice, but she found exactly what she was looking for in Antwerp. For years, I wanted to study abroad in Florence, Italy. I envisioned myself becoming fluent in Italian, devouring pizza and pasta like they were going out of...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Anna Sawchuk
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
What to do when excitement turns into anxiety. After a night of very little sleep (thanks to some last-minute packing and my procrastination issues), the morning had finally arrived. What was once just a vision had suddenly turned into a reality and it...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Melissa Gagne
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
The benefits of staying out of the cities. Having recently attended a welcoming party for those new to the city, we as students were thanked for “choosing Kolding,” which was quickly responded with “Kolding chose us” by one of my classmates. While this...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Alana Fata
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Putting a degree in International Project Management to work. For many, the majority of our formative years are spent sitting behind a desk, wavering between paying attention and doodling in the margins of our spiral notebooks. This indecision lasted...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kait Bolongaro
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
How to ease the bureaucratic process of studying abroad. Whenever I begin the official documents for my next destination I always imagine the worst. Even though I do plenty of research, plan ahead of time and make enough photocopies to wallpaper my...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Melissa Gagne
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
What happens when you have to live life offline? Moving to another country always presents a series of challenges and frustrations when it comes to adapting to a different way of life. In my experience, this process tends to make me realize and...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Nikki Gladstone
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
It’s one month into my international development fellowship with the Aga Khan Foundation Canada and I can say I am finally finding my footing. I am navigating my way around the bustling streets of unrelenting traffic jams. I am learning what body...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Melissa Gagne
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Melissa considers the differences between working in Korea and studying in Denmark. Here I go again. There is something deeply rooted inside of me that does not allow me to stay still. I am constantly looking for new adventures and places to discover...
