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- Type: Article
- Author: Taylor St. John
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Taylor experiences a not-so-average week working as a lift operator in New Zealand. Last week was one of the most challenging weeks I’ve had working at Coronet Peak, and also the most fulfilling. I’m about a month into my second season as a lift...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Sidrah Shams
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Sidrah learns to learns to look for the best of people on both sides of the Atlantic. I arrived in Bordeaux exactly one week after getting engaged. Coming to France had always been part of my so-called “two-year plan”—long before I had even met my...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Tim Koehn
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
Faced with insurmountable poverty, there's little that many Nepalis can do to elevate themselves. Against the odds, Vishu Sijali is trying to change that. Both from emotion and from the campfire smoke clouding the room, Vishu Sijali's eyes teared up as...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Rachel MacNeill
- Category: Work Abroad
How the Zanzibar Butterfly Centre is empowering rural farmers to build their own businesses. As Federica Busiello maneuvers her battered 4x4 around the deep potholes and errant chickens ubiquitous on Zanzibar's interior roads, she reflects that this...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jessica Lockhart
- Category: Work Abroad
Be strategic about your international experience and stand out from the crowd. When Monica Arora decided to pursue her MBA, she wasn't willing to settle for becoming just another business graduate. "I felt like I needed to differentiate myself," she...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jessica Lockhart
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
An element of uncertainty accompanies any international experience. Here are five tips to help you get and give the most as an international volunteer. 1. Take a personal inventory of your skills and experience—and don't discredit the small stuff....
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jessica Lockhart
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
Is international volunteering just an ineffective indulgence for rich North Americans? Not according to new research by Dr Erin Barnhart. Dr. Erin Barnhart is no stranger to international volunteerism. As a former staff member at Idealist.org, a board...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Sam Mednick
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
A three-day river journey to a remote community in Panama's jungle is all part of the job for Floating Doctors volunteers. Marcia Rodriquez sat nervously on the makeshift examining table. The 16-year-old was pregnant with her second child. As she...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Monica Hrubcin
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
How an internship in Hong Kong changed Monica's perspective. Being in my last few days in Hong Kong has been really tough. Most of my close friends have already and now only I am left, feeling alone in a crowded city. It reminds me a lot of my initial...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Rob Small
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Rob visits the favellas of Brazil for an eye-opening experience. As my time in Brazil came to an end, I found myself venturing to Rio de Janeiro, A Cidade Maravilhosa. Taking that trip turned out to be an incredible way to spend my final weekend in...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Roop Gill
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
After Roop loses her checked bag, she makes a list of the contents she’ll miss the most. As winter started creeping up on the Southern hemisphere, I packed up my life in Sydney and scooted over to Singapore. As I disembarked from my Boeing 777, I was...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Vivien Lee
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Encouraging tourists to take the lesser-known path. My first time in Taiwan and I moved into the Wanhua district, the oldest part of Taipei, because my AIESEC internship project was to increase cultural awareness for Wanhua. The part of the Wanhua...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jessica Brook
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Keeping warm in South America. Contrary to the belief of the majority of friends and family back in the UK, Bogota is not a subtropical paradise but pretty temperate, with a fairly predictable weather pattern. It’s sunny in the morning, rainy in the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Judi Zienchuk
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Judi is inspired by farming intiatives in the island-state. With a population of over five million spread across a country of only 710 square kilometres of total area (making it the third most densely populated country on the planet), Singapore doesn’t...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Amber Birch
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Amber learns that sometimes, last-minute decisions are the best decisions. While being abroad, my main goal was to become more spontaneous since before in Canada I clung to routine like it was a lifeline. The unknown is such a petrifying factor in my...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Judi Zienchuk
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Encounters with the young, educated Indonesian paparazzi. Getting off the beaten path in Berastagi, Indonesia, I was fully prepared for volcano trekking and squat toilets. (Always remember to bring your own tissue paper.) One thing I was definitely not...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Allison Burney
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
The hard road to hometime. It’s strange how homesickness works. What’s even stranger is that my experience with it hasn’t been anything like what I expected it would be. I knew that moving to Korea for a year wouldn’t be easy. In fact, I knew it would...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Phoebe Todd-Parrish
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
How to manage bad news from home. Not everyone thinks about “home” when they’re away, and not everyone will miss “home” either. But I definitely have, and you might too, so here is just some reassurance from one of your “homies” (ha!). Being in...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Taylor St. John
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Finding the best place to live in New Zealand. I’ve done the house hunt in New Zealand a few times now, so when I recently moved back to Queenstown for a second winter season I was pretty aware of what lay ahead. When backpacking around a country like...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Rob Small
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
How to carry the momentum of adventure abroad home. The working abroad experience is filled with many new adventures. Every new restaurant, bar, city—even every park—seems to feel like a new adventure. There's always the thrill of potentially meeting...
