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- Type: Article
- Author: Sam Sheppard
- Category: Work Abroad
Seasonal yacht jobs can fund your travels, but how do you get onboard without any experience? Imagine if you could spend your days building up a great tan, living on a multi-million dollar floating home, and travelling to a different city every night....
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- Type: Article
- Author: Huining Luo, Qian Zhang, Huan Yan & Chen Liang
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
Four Chinese students share their favourite local snacks—and some history of their city in the process. Beijing snacks are known for their long history, wide variety and the delicate process needed to make them. You may come across authentic Beijing...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Lorraine Chai
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
After three years in Tokyo, moving away feels like leaving home all over again. In Japan, cherry blossoms are a huge part of the culture; not just for their beauty, but also for how they represent the fleeting nature of life. Cherry blossoms are only...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Shrita Pathak
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Cheap, ethical travel during peak times—yes, it's possible. The happy hippie inside me was stoked about my plans for the holidays. I had crafted an incredibly ambitious travel plan for the busiest time of the year. Over Christmas, I flew from Madrid to...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Hayley Duszynski
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
What I learned about myself—and what I wish I did differently. China is a big, scary place. Moving abroad is a terrifying thing. And yet—I did it. Even though I still doubt myself in every possible way—and have faced some stressful moments while living...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Hayley Duszynski
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Learning the ancient art of calligraphy was a difficult—yet meaningful—experience to have in China. Learning Chinese calligraphy was something I really wanted to do while living in China. Now, after taking a class, I’m beginning to understand this...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Franklin Smith
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Why I’ll always use Workaway or WWOOF when I visit a new country. It was 3 a.m. and I couldn’t sleep. The dinghy made ghastly noises as it periodically slapped the side of the hull, and huge rolling waves made us feel like victims on a perpetual roller...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Tyler Michalek
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Following three months of international travel, I returned to the States in late June to find that my summer had just begun. Travel means endless opportunity: new faces, new places, new feelings, new tastes. Life lessons, authenticity, perspective,...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Franklin Smith
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Here's why we gave in to the allure of New Zealand van life. If you’ve spent even a couple of days in New Zealand, you’ve seen them. They buzz around like bees, zoom down highways, fill up parking lots, and somehow find their way into hidden nooks and...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Franklin Smith
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Our adventure in Auckland was almost over before it began. “Do you have a transit visa for Australia?” “Nope. Why would I?” My heart rate picked up noticeably. "I'm sorry, I can’t let you on the flight. Your flight is connecting in Australia, and you...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Caelan Beard
- Category: Work Abroad
A prospective employer asks how you handle stressful work situations and your answer involves a tense meeting—with a grizzly bear. You know you have their full attention. "It’s okay, everyone! The bear is not going to eat us.” I was trying to sound...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Elizabeth Fitt
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
In Southeast Asia, volunteers are working to rebuild coral reefs one beer at a time. It’s day’s end in Southeast Asia’s Coral Triangle. On remote Pom Pom Island, just off the coast of Borneo, a small group congregates on a wooden jetty to watch the sun...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Keriann McGoogan
- Category: Why we travel
In an impoverished nation, conservation is not always top-of-mind. Maybe today the lemurs will be easier to find. I crawl out of my tent into the darkness of 4:45 a.m. No time to waste. Grabbing my hiking boots, I give them a shake to ensure they’re...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Heather Sinclair
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
Spoiler: Unpacking your overseas experience will be about as interesting to your friends as unpacking your backpack. You’ve arrived home from volunteering abroad and not even 12 hours of jet lag can dampen your enthusiasm. Grabbing your luggage from...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Aram Balakjian
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
Things have gone badly wrong. Is it time to summon your inner warrior, or call up Mr. Nice Guy? The barrel of a 9mm pistol gently twitched a few centimetres from Rupski’s nose. He was kneeling, his hands raised in limp terror above his head. Large...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Andrea Battistuzzi
- Category: Work Abroad
A recent grad's tips for getting work with the world's fifth largest employer. After graduating university, I was a little lost. I had studied radiation therapy at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ont. but I had hoped to experience the world a little...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Hayley Duszynski
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
The fascinating architecture is just one of the reasons I love Beijing. Beijing is very unique in that it has a wide variety of architecture: from old hutongs that haven’t been touched in years to the eighth tallest tower in the world. The most famous...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Shrita Pathak
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Hint: when trying to meet new people in a small town, the Internet is your friend. Did I have trouble making friends as an awkward 15-year-old with braces, horn-rimmed glasses and baby fat on my face? Yes. Was I crippled by social anxiety and needed to...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Lucy Ferguson
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Everyone says you'll "find yourself" living abroad. But what does that really mean? There are countless clichés about living abroad—usually quite optimistic, but very, very vague. Nearly two years after moving from the UK to Switzerland, I thought I’d...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Hayley Duszynski
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
A creative guide to the 798 Art District. The 798 District is a fantastic, unique area in the northeast of Beijing. It is an art district filled to the brim with culture, inspiration, galleries, small studios, independent shops, cafes, restaurants,...
