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- Type: Article
- Author: Jean-Marc Hachey
- Category: Work Abroad
An international career doesn't happen overnight. Some tips to get you going. Do you ever imagine yourself working abroad as a professional in Paris, London, or Singapore? You are earning a competitive salary, living in a great apartment, and taking...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Liane Cerminara
- Category: Travel Health
Why you should consider a pre-trip shot in the arm. How about a nice cold glass of typhoid fever to quench your thirst? You can probably think of better ways to get excited about going abroad—but once you've had your fill at the pub, a visit to your...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Susan Griffith
- Category: Work Abroad
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- Type: Article
- Author: Susan Griffith
- Category: Work Abroad
Anyone with a bit of pluck can find temporary work abroad, says Susan Griffith, author of Work Your Way Around the World. It may not be all glamour, but there are loads of opportunities. Short of emigrating or marrying a native, working abroad is the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jeff Minthorn
- Category: Why we travel
Doctors Without Borders Canada founder, Dr. Richard Heinzl has travelled to 75 countries (and counting.) He speaks with Verge about living life adventurously. Dr. Richard Heinzl pokes his head out of the open front door of his home in an upscale...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Joshua K. Hartshorne
- Category: Study Abroad
A few tips and tricks for speaking in foreign tongues. With six languages under his belt, Joshua Hartshorne has picked up a few tricks for speaking in foreign tongues. Find out what he wishes he'd known before he got started. Learning a foreign language...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kyla Surtees
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
How you can get the funds to travel. There comes a time in every traveller's life when they need that little bit of extra cash. I don't believe that money makes the world go round, but when it comes to travelling, it sure does make for a smoother ride....
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- Type: Article
- Author: Dr. Mark Wise
- Category: Travel Health
There are tons of bugs out there. So how do you avoid getting bitten and other unpleasant side effects? Dr. Mark Wise has a few suggestions. Bzzzzz. Swat. Itch. Scratch. Bleed. Aren't insects wonderful? How they made it onto Noah's Ark remains a...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jeff Minthorn
- Category: Study Abroad
An international education is fundamental to promoting a world that actually gets along. Dr. David Fenner thinks that an international education is fundamental to promoting a world that actually gets along instead of blowing itself up. For the next...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Dr. Mark Wise
- Category: Travel Health
Dr. Mark Wise dispels some common malaria myths. Essential reading if you're heading to the tropics! Should you travel through the tropics, you will find that next to diarrhea, one of the favourite topics of conversation is malaria and antimalarials!...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Tom Peacock
- Category: Travel Health
If you get yourself into a bad situation, make sure you can get yourself out of it. What to do when the worst happens abroad. Did you hear about the Canadian girl who was thrown in jail in Greece for picking up a rock at the Parthenon? A security guard...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Verge Magazine
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
The lowdown on studying, working and volunteering in the world's most geographically extreme environments. Travel troubles are sometimes to be found in the unlikeliest of places. Just ask Robert Young Pelton: he survived an Indonesian plane crash...
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Britain on the Cheaphttps://www.studyandgoabroad.org/articles/budget-travel/143-britain-on-the-cheap
- Type: Article
- Author: Simon Worsfold
- Category: Budget Traveller
Britain can be one of the most utterly expensive places to travel, and those Canadian dollars disappear quickly. If you need to get by on a baguette budget but still want to have a blast, then read on... Spend other nations' money If you're spending...
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Backdoor Britainhttps://www.studyandgoabroad.org/articles/beyond-the-guidebook/142-backdoor-britain
- Type: Article
- Author: Simon Worsfold
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
Learn how to see the best the UK has to offer, while avoiding the crowds and making those loonies last. There's no doubt, word is already out. Thirty million people visited Britain last year—equivalent to half of the country's population. But it is...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Erin Grinnell
- Category: Work Abroad
After decades of war, resignation has replaced hope for many young Afghans who have never seen peace. We approach the runway to land and I look out the plane's window in awe: mangled carcasses of planes litter the sides of the runways, rectangular...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Verge
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
Beyond the bombings: a glimpse of Afghanistan's recent and not-so-recent history. Afghanistan is a landlocked country slightly larger than Saskatchewan but a whole lot more rugged. The Central Highlands region, dominated by the Hindu Kush mountain...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Tannis Hett and Tom Peacock
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
The challenges of beating HIV/AIDS in Africa are enormous—but the spirit of its young people may be even greater. In regions of Tanzania where discussion about AIDS only happens in whispers, art and drama are getting people talking. Drums beat as a...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Tom Peacock
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
The 2004 tsunami that slammed South East Asia has all but disappeared from the headlines here, but in the year since a group of UBC students has been working quietly to help people in Aceh, Indonesia, rebuild their homes and lives. "At ground zero,...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Dr. Mark Wise
- Category: Travel Health
Key advice on how to prepare for—and avoid—a mental meltdown abroad. Volunteering for six months or more in a less developed country might seem like an idyllic adventure, but in reality, living and working in conditions you're not used to for an...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Rachelle Delaney
- Category: Work Abroad
Helpful hints on how to cope when you find yourself unexpectedly standing in front of a class that doesn't speak your language, but wants to. My family abounds with dedicated teachers, but for me, the prospect of exploring the world always triumphed...
