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- Type: Article
- Author: Sam Mednick
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
For North Americans, witchcraft is the stuff of books and movies. But in Ghana, its existence is undisputed. The question is what to do about it. Eight years ago Mama Ayi was given an ultimatum. Run or we'll kill you. "I'll never forget that day."...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kate Daley
- Category: Study Abroad
How to earn credits while sailing the open seas. If you're tired of the same four walls of your current high school or university classroom, and you're itching to get out and see the world, then the idea of taking your education on the road might...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kim Fisher
- Category: Why we travel
A stove that can save lives and slow global warming? How the clean burning stove is doing just that. Imagine that preparing meals for your family, or heating your home could be dangerous. Fatal, even. For roughly three billion people, that's reality....
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- Type: Article
- Author: Susan Griffith
- Category: Work Abroad
The most worthwhile sources of information are, without question, personal contacts and experienced travellers you'll meet on the road. Backpacker hostels are universally recommended, especially out of season, and many hostel managers will be well...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Susan Griffith
- Category: Work Abroad
Thinking about working abroad? Check out these options. 1. Special Events Great bursts of employment activity take place around major events. Annual music and arts festivals from Edinburgh to Adelaide plus sporting events and trade fairs are magnets...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Susan Griffith
- Category: Work Abroad
Have a budget for six months of travel but want to stay a year? Consider picking up a short-term job abroad. Considering working abroad? Proper jobs involving long-term contracts, expat salaries and hard-to-get work visas are one thing. Casual work of...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Julia Steinecke
- Category: Work Abroad
There are a lot of helpful how-to books on travel writing (e.g. The Travel Writer's Handbook by Zobel and Butler). But my advice is to spend more time actually reading travel writers who inspire you. Some of my current faves (which include novelists...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Julia Steinecke
- Category: Work Abroad
Six tips to get you started from veteran travel writer Julia Steinecke. Around the world in 80 travel-writing assignments? Only if you're lucky. Travel writer Julia Steinecke sheds some light on one of the world's most appealing and misunderstood...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Dr. Mark Wise
- Category: Travel Health
Just because you've made it home doesn't mean you are out of the woods! Dr. Mark Wise takes a look at a few of the more common post-travel health issues, and what to do about them. "Man, it's great to be back home, but I'm still running to the can, my...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Andrea Gourgy
- Category: Why we travel
Victims of violence on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are taking peace into their own hands. Can a grassroots approach succeed where international negotiation efforts have failed? Victims of violence on both sides of the...
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TESL Toolboxhttps://www.studyandgoabroad.org/articles/work-abroad/97-tesl-toolbox
- Type: Article
- Author: Kim Fisher
- Category: Work Abroad
Thinking about teaching English as a second language? Here are some basics. General Information Canada TESL Canada TESL Ontario UK English UK British Council Teach English USA Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training American...
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TESL Lingohttps://www.studyandgoabroad.org/articles/work-abroad/96-tesl-lingo
- Type: Article
- Author: Kim Fisher
- Category: Work Abroad
TESL terms explained. There's a whole host of acronyms associated with teaching English as a second language, though Tyers suggests they're relatively interchangeable. "At the end of the day, they all mean the same thing," she jokes. "You're teaching...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kim Fisher
- Category: Work Abroad
Interested in teaching overseas but overwhelmed at the options for learning how? Start here for some basics in choosing the right course for you. Dozens of expectant faces stare up at you as you're standing at the front of a packed classroom, lesson...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Susan Griffith
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
Faced with myriad choices, how do you find a credible volunteer abroad organization? U.K.-based Tourism Concern, a registered charity that fights exploitation in tourism, is putting out a code of best practices for volunteer organizations. As things...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Susan Griffith
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
Is the world really your oyster? Expert Susan Griffith presents the second part of her article on grown-up gap years, with insight on the practical reality of volunteering abroad. Have you ever come across an oyster clinging to a sea cliff and tried to...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Albert Koehl
- Category: Budget Traveller
Buses aren't only an eco-friendly way to travel: When it comes to adventure, airplanes just don't compare. "If you approach the driver, you must announce yourself," the Greyhound driver explains as we pull out of Omaha City, Nebraska. I'm almost at the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Dr. Mark Wise
- Category: Travel Health
Seeking medical help at home can sometimes be challenging, but when you need it abroad, you'd better be prepared. It's 38 degrees Celsius in the shade, you feel like your temperature is even higher than that, and you've got stomach cramps and a...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Sean Brander
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
A remote Bosnian village is marketed as an undiscovered throwback to the Middle Ages. At what cost? asks Sean Brander. High in the mountains of central Bosnia and Herzegovina, the village of Lukomir perches between a cliff and the empty valley of...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Albert Koehl
- Category: Budget Traveller
Tired of schlepping dead weight across the planet? Albert Koehl packs only ten things. "Why do you have 14 rolls of toilet paper?" I asked a traveller at a hostel in Delhi. "I've heard they don't have toilet paper in India," he explained, unloading his...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Troy Nahumko
- Category: Work Abroad
