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- Type: Article
- Author: Troy Nahumko
- Category: Work Abroad
Europe may be the School of Hard Knocks for ESL teachers, but Troy Nahumko has some tricks to ease the trade. Riding the Metro all day from class to class, you almost miss your station because you nodded off to the rhythm of your neighbour's iPod. You...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Bill Frederick
- Category: Budget Traveller
Bill Frederick kicks off Verge Magazine's new Travel Ethics column with a look at the counterpoint of competing values. Two American women are kissing in the middle of the dance floor oblivious to the hostile stares of the grandmothers in a...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Andrea Gourgy
- Category: Budget Traveller
Travel around the world on an empty wallet? Yes, it is possible. "To travel cheap, you need to be looking for opportunities and be willing to take them. You have to be somewhat proactive and not be afraid to ask for advice, help, guidance. Ask for what...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jeff Minthorn
- Category: Travel Health
If you're one of those people who feels queasy on anything but roller skates, you'll want to read this. Some years ago, I worked as a medic aboard a ship that plied the notorious Drake Passage between the tip of Argentina and the Antarctic Peninsula....
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jeff Minthorn
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
Each year, more and more young Canadians are choosing to augment their education by taking time out to travel—a trend that is being encouraged by educators and employers alike. Gap Year: A period of time between 3 and 24 months that an individual takes...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Verge
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
The name Sudan is derived from the Arabic "bilad-al-Sudan" or "land of the blacks." Capital: Khartoum size: 2.5 million square kilometres. The largest country in Africa, about the size of Western Europe. Population: 39 million (2004). Over half the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Sean Guistini
- Category: Why we travel
How a young Canadian organized and funded his own journey to Pakistan where he volunteered in a refugee camp on the Afghan border. I love flying. There is something so romantic in the notion that one can get on a plane and in hours be transported to a...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Verge
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
The conflict between the Government of Republique Cote d'Ivoire and rebel forces has been in the news lately. Here's a bit of background about the situation. Ivory Coast is a country on the northwestern coast Africa. Roughly a quarter of its 18 million...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Clare Byrne
- Category: Why we travel
Jen Buck and Josee Auclair lead an all-woman expedition team to the North Pole. "Mine at last," declared a triumphant Robert Peary on April 6, 1909 as he planted the American flag firmly in the arctic ice at 90 degrees North. Peary's discovery marked...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jeff Minthorn
- Category: Travel Health
Are headlines in the news giving you cold feet about the big trip you've been planning for months? The invasion of Iraq, SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), conflict in many countries—you could always travel by remote-control from the comfort of...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Verge
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
Nepal is a tiny country in the Himalayas squeezed between China to the north and India to the south. It is home to the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, and has long been the destination of choice for outdoor adventure travel. Since 1996, Nepal has...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Stephen Baxter
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
Taking a "gap year", or year off, is standard in much of the world. The idea of a year off is just starting to catch on in Canada, and there are thousands of ways to to get out and go... On the veranda of a hostel in San Diego, Jenny Mathieson, a...
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Plan to Work Abroadhttps://www.studyandgoabroad.org/articles/work-abroad/63-plan-to-work-abroad
- Type: Article
- Author: Jeff Minthorn
- Category: Work Abroad
Many years ago, a good friend of mine who was then in his second year of med. school, organized a term working in a small rural medical clinic in Kenya. At the time, there was not a lot of support for that sort of thing and it was quite an undertaking...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Richard Desrochers
- Category: Travel Health
Long ago, Romans knew that something in the air around the marshy areas of Rome was making people sick and even killing them. This illness, known then as Roman fever, was clearly caused by the bad air (mal-aria) in these areas. Of course, we know now...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Elizabeth LeReverend
- Category: Why we travel
Why is the world's most famous conservation activist so optimistic? You might think that for an international activist who travels more than 300 days a year, a three-week break would be all about taking it easy. But not for Dr. Jane Goodall. When the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Verge
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
Once known simply as Congo and more recently (from 1971-1997) as Zaire, the Democratic Republic of Congo is a vast central African country of immense natural resources. Conflict has been raging in DR Congo for five years. The International Rescue...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jeff Minthorn
- Category: Work Abroad
Life and work in the outdoor industry. It's 7:00 a.m. and Rachel Jamieson is getting ready for another tough day at the office. She pulls on her usual office attire, T-shirt, fleece sweater, quick-dry shorts, then crawls out of her tent and begins...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Verge Magazine
- Category: PhotoPro
Have you ever wondered what a hero looks like? Verge is proud to introduce our 2009 Global Heroes: 14 men and women who are doing their part to make a difference in the developing world. They range in age from 23 to 62 and also in experience—from those...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jim Carson
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
When I think back on it, my first experience volunteering overseas kind of sucked. It's a long story, but the short version is that I showed up in Nepal thinking that I was going to save the world and found out that really I was on an adventure tour...
