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- Type: Article
- Author: Andrew O'Dea
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
As Youth Challenge International blogger Andrew O'Dea prepares to depart for Guyana, he reflects on Mark Twain's famous words. “Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain Although Mark Twain's quote is applied to numerous slogans for programmes and...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Dylan Muñoz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
For AIESEC intern Jackie, navigating the cultural divide in India was as easy as crossing the street. Last summer, I spent two months in India on an AIESEC internship. Immersed in the depths, it was one of the most challenging, rewarding, and...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Carly Vandergriendt
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
In India, anything worth owning is something worth fixing. The other day I enlisted the services of a cobbler. That’s right, a cobbler. You know, a person who fixes shoes? It’s not something I foresaw myself doing, ever. Where I come from, shoes that...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Camaro West
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Sometimes navigating foreign medical clinics can cause more pain than the initial illness. Ah, the overseas clinic visit. The reality of living somewhere for an extended amount of time is that there is a good chance a visit to the doctor will be...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Genevieve Juillet
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
As AIESEC intern Genevieve prepares for her overseas placement, "helpful horror stories" aren't making her task any easier. It is less than 10 days before I am set to depart from Canada to spend three months living and working in New Delhi, India, and...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Carly Vandergriendt
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
How AIESEC intern Carly decided to work in India. Nearly half a year ago, I was walking down Gordon Street in Guelph, Ontario in the rain. It was November in Canada and the dreary drizzle, coupled with a bitter wind, firmly declared the onset of...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Brad Richards
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
An AIESEC intern in Portugal shares his advice for making the most of working abroad. What I am about to say may not apply to everyone, nor will everyone find value in what I offer. But in all honesty, there are certain people who simply shouldn’t be...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kat Thomas
- Category: Why we travel
An organization founded in love, the 5 Gyres is researching the world's plastic problem. Most people don’t follow plastic to its final resting place, but Marcus Eriksen and Anna Cummins do—even if that grave happens to be in the middle of the ocean....
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- Type: Article
- Author: Camaro West
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
An intern reflects on the advantages—and disadvantages—of people mistakenly believing that she's Ghanaian. I remember making my way through Kotoka International Airport when I first arrived in Ghana, passing through customs and having the agent start...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Conner Gorry
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Havana travel blogger Conner Gorry shares her tips for throwing a dinner party in Cuba. When I first came to Cuba in 1993, food was so scarce that most adults dropped an average of 15 pounds and everyone learned how to go to bed hungry. During the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Zeynep Bayraktaroglu
- Category: Work Abroad
How to teach English as a Second Language in the Middle East. Why teach in Bahrain? Taking a deep plunge into the world of ESL, I suddenly found myself teaching at a remote corner of Oman to Bedouin students whom, in all probability, were seeing an...
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Let it Rainhttps://www.studyandgoabroad.org/articles/work-abroad/193-blogs/771-let-it-rain
- Type: Article
- Author: Carly Vandergriendt
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
A late-night trek in Pushkar allows travellers to discover India's spiritual side. After returning to our hostel, a psychedelic-inspired haveli run by an affable pothead who called himself Electric Baba, we immediately found ourselves splayed in the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Carly Vandergriendt
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
We'd been had! And in Pushkar, no less – where the dolloped roofs of hundreds of bleach-white temples protruded from clusters of houses towards the vast sky; where sadhus with gnarled hair could only be distinguished from washed-up hippies by their...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Dylan Muñoz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
How to take full advantage of the country of a billion opportunities. Whenever people think of India they automatically think of the Taj Mahal, the incredible monuments, the hustle and bustle—and of course they think of it as a country that has over a...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Dylan Muñoz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
A Greek intern in Canada shares his thoughts on homesickness. It is a dream for the adventurer; a door to an unexpected realm of knowledge for the scholar; or simply put, it’s a way for students to get out and see the world. This is what the word...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Dylan Muñoz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
How to prepare for your overseas internship. Going on an internship abroad is an incredible opportunity, not only because you get to advance your professional skills, but you also get to experience a new culture. However, there are always unexpected...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Zalina Alvi
- Category: Study Abroad
Returning travellers are often surprised to find that the process of reintegration is rife with challenges – and ripe with opportunities. "I was expecting to have some culture shock," says Melanie Lindayen, but the culture shock she describes wasn't...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Andrea Gourgy
- Category: Study Abroad
Plan ahead to get credit for your overseas studies. Planning a year of study in another country can be a daunting task. The rewards can be great—both personally and academically—but ensuring that you get all the credits you need at a foreign college or...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jessica Lockhart, Jemma Young, Arden Jobling-Hey, Jeff Minthorn
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
10 mindful trips that will change the way you travel. “Take only photos and leave only footprints,” goes the backpacking mantra—but not all footprints are good ones. Those left by tourists, including backpackers, can sometimes be detrimental to a...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Isabel Eva Bohrer
- Category: Study Abroad
Find housing that will make the most of your study abroad program. “Housing can make or break a rewarding study abroad experience,” says Sheryl Hill, Founder of the Clear Cause Foundation, a non-profit committed to keeping students safe during study...
