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- Type: Article
- Author: Jeff Minthorn & Jessica Lockhart
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
The COVID-19 pandemic has us confined to our quarters for the time being. We've come up with a few suggestions for how to keep that travel bug alive and well. Communities around the world are reeling because of the global spread of COVID-19 and the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Aisha Preece
- Category: Work Abroad
Earn up to $60 per hour with this location independent job. I write this from my sunny balcony in Barcelona. The smell of tapas and the sea wafts through the air and I am looking forward to embarrassing my newfound Spanish friends with my salsa dancing...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jennifer Roberts
- Category: Travel Health
I wanted to fulfill my dream of teaching abroad but struggled with anxiety. This tool helped me take control. What were you thinking? There’s no way you can do this for a year. You need to go home right now. You do realize this is a long time, right?...
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- Type: Article
- Author: James Lloyd-Townshend
- Category: Work Abroad
With innovation and start-ups around every corner, Amsterdam is considered the new Silicon Valley. Here's why it's the place to launch your tech career. Amsterdam has long held a reputation for being a dominant business hub—particularly in the tech...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Shrita Pathak
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
When it comes to healthy eating abroad, a little organization goes a long way. As I’ve mentioned in previous blogs, I’m vegan in Asturias, Spain. While most people around me consider it next to impossible to eat vegan in a place that is so heavy on...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Marisa Ebony
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Free and easy living—that's what life is all about. One thing Costa Rica is known for is the catchphrase pura vida, which translates to "pure life." It is an essential part of greeting people when meeting both friendly faces and strangers. Now that I...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Marisa Ebony
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Since moving to Costa Rica, I've learned how to cook with plenty of exotic fruits—here are some of my favourites. Costa Rica is famous for its abundance of tropical fruits. Sure, we can buy these exotic fruits when they are imported overseas, but there...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Shrita Pathak
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Your guide to making ethical eating choices while on-the-go. If I can be vegan in Asturias, Spain then anyone can be vegan—anywhere in the world. Vegetarian beginnings I went vegetarian at the age of nine. Something in my brain didn't add up—I just...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Marisa Ebony
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
My son and I have finally arrived in tropical Puerto Viejo, our home for the next few months. Arriving in Costa Rica, the first thing I notice is the difference in smell. It gets stronger once we start moving away from the main hub of San Jose, into...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Caelan Beard
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
How to find the right overseas volunteer placement that truly benefits everyone involved. Yasmin Smith learned the hard way that, when it comes to sustainability and positive impact, not all projects are made equal. Smith, a university student from...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kate Gilgan
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
Lighten your load with these tips. It was Sunday night in the village of Candidasa on the island of Bali and I was stranded outside a convenience store with four suitcases, my son's Finding Nemo backpack, a stroller, a MEC child carrier, and an Ikea...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Desiree Anstey
- Category: Study Abroad
Dust off your passport. Study abroad can be affordable. If you’ve tucked your passport away in a drawer leaving it to gather dust while thinking “someday,” then you’re not alone. According to the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE), many...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Katrina Keegan
- Category: Study Abroad
Signing up for a homestay means navigating a new culture, family and diet. From dietary restrictions to vehement dislikes, here's how to find your place at the table. The old adage could be revised: The way to a host student’s heart is through their...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jessica Lockhart
- Category: Travel Health
A pre-existing medical condition need not stop your travels. Here's what you need to know. Just as my taxi pulled up to take me to the airport, I looked at my phone to see the missed call. It was my specialist, leaving me a message at the ungodly hour...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Alexandra Merullo
- Category: Travel Health
I was born with cystic fibrosis. Here's what that means for travel. A few months back, after a particularly hard day of work as an elementary school teacher in a Cambodian school, I called my friend who was a tuk tuk driver, and told him to take me...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kelly Iverson
- Category: Travel Health
Receiving an unwanted health diagnosis is never easy. But what if you're living overseas? My attempt to lift my suitcase into the taxi was a feeble and unsuccessful one. I politely beckoned the driver and asked him to put it in the trunk before heading...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Karin Murray-Bergquist
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
Planning your trip for zero-waste travel. Travel-sized shampoo. Airplane snacks. Coffee to go. There are innumerable ways in which travellers can generate excess waste without meaning to—globally, airline travellers produced 5.7 million tonnes of waste...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Wendy Cohan
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
Providing primary healthcare in rural Central America. We land in Tegucigalpa in January, a group of pasty-skinned Montanans, one transplanted Costa Rican and an equally pale Alaskan. We are two doctors, three physician assistants, a lone nurse (me)...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jessica Lockhart
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
A round-up of our favourite blog posts over the past couple of months: How work abroad allows you to create a new reality. Perhaps long-term travel's greatest gift is its ability to give you room to experiment with what you want your life to look like....
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- Type: Article
- Author: Amy Poulton
- Category: Study Abroad
For anyone living and working in Thailand, learning the language will help deepen your understanding of the culture. When I moved to Thailand to work as an English copywriter for a travel company, my job didn’t require for me to know any Thai. But, I...
