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- Type: Article
- Author: Adelina Wong
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
The holidays are coming and you’re a couple thousand miles away from home with no chance of going home. The stores are filled with joyful holiday music celebrating family time and it has you feeling a little bummed out. Last year, I found myself in...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Ann Halsig
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
Can you volunteer overseas without the support of a volunteer-sending organization? How hard could it be? After years of struggling to divide our time between working and volunteering in London, in 2009 my partner, Chris, and I decided to volunteer...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Allison Burney
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Being unable to speak Korean has taught Allison that a language barrier can have some surprising effects—both negative and positive. Having not travelled much in the past, and never to a country whose language I couldn’t speak, I’d never really...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Samantha Phelan
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
For AIESEC intern Samantha, three months in Brazil resulted in a lifetime of change. As I sit in the Sao Paulo airport, sipping overpriced tea (which is still cheap by North American standards) and tasting an utterly delightful key lime pie that I am...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Susan Chan
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Crisps, courgettes and chips: Susan is learning to speak English all over again. When I first decided that I wanted to do my undergraduate studies abroad, I had no option but to limit my choice of universities to those in English-speaking countries,...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Beth Saunders
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
What I learned during my semester overseas. It's really starting to hit me that it's almost time to head back to Canada. I have been studying at the University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic since September 13th and it astonishes me daily how...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Roop Gill
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Financial resources to help you on your journey. Post-secondary education is expensive, regardless of whether you decide to pursue it in North America or abroad. Instead of racking up my student loans by doing a post-graduate degree in Canada, I...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Adelina Wong
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Ever wonder what it'd be like to work in an Eastern European office? One of the questions that I receive the most frequently about my experience abroad is what is it really like to work abroad. What are the differences in work culture and has anything...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Rudayna Bahubeshi
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
After years spent overseas, Rudayna heads to the most unexpected destination—home. I am torn: split between the options of remaining in one place and carrying on traveling the world. I have spent seven months of this year, seven months of last year,...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Nabila Qureshi
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Photo Essay: What an average day looks like studying abroad. I am doing my fall semester in Penang, Malaysia as an exchange student from Memorial University of Newfoundland. I arrived here on the 1st of September via Jet Star Airways. My first view of...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Raine Blunk
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Verge's newest "from the field" blogger reflects on Cambodia's broken silence. I’ve discovered one of the toughest places to type has got to be from the backseat of a taxi shooting 60 miles down a road that cuts through the beautiful and treacherous...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Allison Burney
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
During her first month teaching ESL, Allison finds her first major challenge unexpected. Well, here I am in my new home! I’ve been living in Busan and teaching English for a month already. It almost seems impossible that my first month in Korea has...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Roop Gill
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Learning to love a small city in big doses. When most students go on their exchange abroad, they hit up the big cities. Some of my good friends have gone to London, Sydney, Hong Kong, Lima and so on. After all, the best way to experience a new country...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Beth Saunders
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Tops tips for off-season vacations. Since I arrived in Prague on September 13, I have managed to visit four other countries. This experience has been fantastic but has also left me slightly disappointed. While researching in preparation for my semester...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Nadine Van Deuren
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
An escape to the coffee cultural landscape of Colombia. My time here is flying by fast, today is day 28 (of 98) and I still feel like I arrived yesterday! One benefit of living with 10 other international exchange participants? You have instant travel...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Samantha Phelan
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
ESL teacher Samantha is learning firsthand just what it means to study a new language. Can you speak more than one language fluently? Can you speak more than two? If so, mad props to you because I’m finding this language barrier thing one of the most...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Beth Saunders
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Beth makes the most of her semester overseas with a history lesson. Travelling while studying abroad is a crucial part of the experience; learning by doing is a great way to retain information and drastically enhances the experience. This past weekend...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Nadine Van Deuren
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Nadine learns why the Colombian city lives up to its tourism slogan. The title of this blog post is stolen from a tourism campaign promoting travel to Colombia but it couldn’t be more true. Before coming to Medellin I was seriously apprehensive about...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Adelina Wong
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Adelina spends a day at the races. Imagine turning a city block in downtown Toronto or Vancouver into a horse racing track, inviting representatives from every village and town in the country along with their horses, and having continuous races over...
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ABCs of Accrahttps://www.studyandgoabroad.org/articles/volunteer-abroad/192-blogs/876-abcs-of-accra
- Type: Article
- Author: Camaro West
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Camaro shares the elementary school basics of life in Ghana. My last post from Ghana, I think I’ve been here long enough to offer some of my ABCs of Accra for anyone who will be traveling to Ghana and especially for those who have already been and can...
