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- Type: Article
- Author: David McElhinney
- Category: Work Abroad
The demand for English teachers in Japan is on the rise. Here is how to get started. My first foray into the world of ESL teaching came in the form of Tokyo, where I spent the guts of two years in the industry. Yet I must admit, it was the country that...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Patti Lefkos
- Category: Travel Health
Keeping spiffy in the trailside biffie—the (literal) lowdown and dirty. I first slipped—and I do mean slipped—into a squat toilet during my first day of trekking Nepal’s Annapurna Circuit. The copper tap dripped, the porcelain foot placements were...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Joseph Stanley
- Category: Work Abroad
Landing an international internship takes initiative—but in a global economy, the payoff is huge. To say that study abroad has grown in the last decade here in North America would be a vast understatement. Over the past 10 years in the U.S., the number...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Piper Schad
- Category: Work Abroad
The only thing standing between you and Italy is finding the right family to work for. Every morning, I start my day with a view of lemon trees and the sea. After draining a shot of espresso, I head to the local language school for my Italian lessons,...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Yana Myalo
- Category: Work Abroad
Daily reports, long speeches and lunchtime naps? Getting to know Chinese culture as an employee is a whole new learning curve. I started learning Chinese at university in Russia. At the time, I didn’t know anything about China, except that it’s one of...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jay F. Storz
- Category: Why we travel
Cross-cultural immersion at a young age can be a lifelong gift. Our son was anxious before the soccer tryout. As the new kid, it would be stressful under the best of circumstances, but it was especially hard as a foreigner who hadn’t yet mastered the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Aisling Force
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
What life is like six months later. January marks just over six months since we made the hard decision to leave Costa Rica. After immediately losing work when the pandemic hit, we realized it wasn't going to return to "normal" for quite some time. So,...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Emma Reasoner
- Category: Why we travel
My biology degree taught me to work with wildlife; the local community taught me to work with people. There’s a leopard in our camp. Vundi, our guard dog, growls into the thick vegetation just a few metres from where I’m standing. Her growl is answered...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Paul Norman
- Category: Work Abroad
Working as a labourer is one of the most lucrative jobs for working holidaymakers in Australia. Here's how to get started. Everyone underestimates their ability to overshoot a budget—a fact that slapped me in the face in 2018. Sitting in a hostel in...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Tori Doman
- Category: Budget Traveller
My advice for high school graduates about to head out on their gap year adventures. It was Saturday night in London and I was spending yet another night alone in the hostel, while my friends and fellow backpackers were out on the town seeing the sights...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Francesca O'Hern
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
Being flexible with my diet helped me learn more about Ukrainian culture. I have a distinct, traumatizing memory of my Ukrainian grandmother trying to force feed me—a new vegetarian—pork at Easter dinner. I’d grown up attending Ukrainian school every...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Katie Bergman
- Category: Travel Health
For many people, not being able to travel is a profound loss and the grief is real. Here's how to deal. Kailey Schroeder was midway through her gap year volunteering in Nicaragua when she was forced to make a decision that no traveller wants to make:...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Chloe King
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
Gone are the days of bustling beach crowds, surfer-saturated waves, and bumper-to-bumper motorbike traffic in Bali. Is this how tourism should be? Hidden amongst the dive shops of Amed, a town on the eastern coast of Bali, is the storefront of Amed...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Rebecca Janacek
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
With my university classes finished, I was finally free to experience Taiwan on my own terms. But the transition period was not easy. When I first came to Taipei, I described the city as controlled chaos. Now that Taipei has become my temporary home,...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kerry Graning
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
Two-thirds of the world's written scripts are in danger of disappearing—and with them, the unique cultural knowledge they convey. What would happen if you forgot your ABCs? You walk into a library and open your favourite book, but the words look like...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Sean Power
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
Driven by gang violence, crop failure and poverty, Central American migrants head northward in search of a better life. The garbage bags of donated clothing arrive nearly every day. Each one is taken to the foldout tables where their contents are...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Ruchi Ahuja
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
A native of India weighs in on the cultural appropriation and commodification of an ancient Hindu spiritual practice. Two fleeting months ago, I moved back to my dear motherland of India from the United States. With a new appreciation for all things...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Filipe Faria
- Category: Work Abroad
A veteran of Doctors Without Borders' Ebola mission in Uganda sees some surprising similarities in our behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic. “No! Don’t touch me,” protested the worker at the Gulu Airport when I attempted to shake his hand. His...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Alyson Rockhold
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
Returning home from Tanzania, I realized my need to travel was putting others at risk. In my small Tanzanian home, there is no electricity or running water, and rice and beans are always on the menu. Life is simple and lived close to the earth. My...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Rebecca Janacek
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Language learning is an ongoing process of trying, failing, reassessing and trying again. “N? h?o!” My eyes widen as I realize that I have greeted the shop owner instead of thanking her for the fourth time this week. I rush to exit the store, eager to...
