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- Type: Article
- Author: Zoe Bell
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
The end of an internship is a leap into your career. While most internships come with defined start and end dates, temporary positions in one’s home country sometimes turn into full-time employment. Working abroad on a visa, however, means the start...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Lucy Ferguson
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
How does one "do" Switzerland properly, anyway? Before I moved to Switzerland, I vowed to stay away from the dreaded “expat bubble.” But, in a place like Lucerne, it’s inevitable you’ll cross paths with quite a few other international residents. In...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Iris Fu
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
A glimpse into what life looks like studying Mandarin in Taiwan. For those of you who have never met me, I'm Iris and I’m studying Mandarin in New Taipei City for the summer through the National Security Language Initiative scholarship granted by the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Maya Lach-Aidelbaum
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
My German was slow to improve in Munich. Here's why. German is hard. Mark Twain famously hated “the awful German language” and Oscar Wilde is said to have quipped that “life is too short to learn German.” Though they were most definitely exaggerating...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Anna Matthews
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
How can you settle back into a place that should feel familiar, but no longer feels like home? It’s taken me a while to decide how I wanted to approach this post. Every time I’ve sat down to write it, everything I’ve wanted to say and the feelings I’ve...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Iris Fu
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
My first week abroad was marked by a lot of sweat. Sweat. It’s everywhere: In the stickiness of my armpits and the hair stuck to the back of my neck. And, the cicadas. Ohh, the cicadas, screaming at the top of their lungs, louder than the man on the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Iris Fu
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
How Chinese pop hits have taught me cultural lessons no textbook ever can. In two days, I depart for Taiwan to study Mandarin as a part of the National Security Language Initiative funded by the U.S. Department of State. As a high school student who...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Maya Lach-Aidelbaum
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
A Canadian and Colombian reflect on the differences studying abroad. Surprisingly, student radio has been the single most exhausting, time-intensive thing I have done in Germany. It has demanded more of me than any single class and more than my...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Ashley Madden
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Want to become location independent? Be prepared to compromise. There are only two defining qualities to becoming a digital nomad: 1. A digital nomad must be a remote worker. This could mean that you have your own business (as I do) or that you work...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Zoe Bell
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
It's an interesting—and frustrating—time to live abroad in America. When I decided to move to the U.S. for a few months, I got a few quizzical looks and raised eyebrows from fellow Canadians. With the current political climate in the U.S.—from the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Spencer Kalan
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
What happens when the novelty wears off? Belonging is a tricky enough concept all on its own, but it becomes something else entirely against the backdrop of living abroad. Going on a vacation to a faraway place or country brings its fair share of...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Ashley Madden
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Skills and strengths we've developed while working remotely. When my husband and I decided to travel abroad, we did so for quite a few reasons. The main being, we wanted to explore and learn about places all over the world. As an online business owner...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Emily Wright
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Settling into a French-speaking workplace was far from straight-forward. I’m not fluent in French. I know as well as anyone that it doesn’t just happen overnight; I’ve spent nine months in a French-speaking country now. But looking back, I’ve come a...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Tyler Michalek
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
How analog photography has inspired me to live and share authentically. With reluctance, I rolled the plastic canister toward the bottom button of her floral blouse. On a billing sheet, entirely in Japanese, she checked a few boxes and pointed at the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Juliann Li
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
If you're studying abroad while your partner stays home, get ready for these challenges. This term, when I was in Paris, I was away from my significant other for over three months. This was the longest period that we’d done long-distance and we were...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Riyanshu Bam
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
At 16, I found the perfect study abroad program. There was just one thing standing in my way: My mom. “No.” That's what my mother told me when I attempted to start an application for the National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) program....
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My Weekday Doghttps://www.studyandgoabroad.org/articles/work-abroad/193-blogs/2501-my-weekday-dog
- Type: Article
- Author: Lucy Ferguson
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
The little dog making a big impact on my life in Switzerland Like many who live abroad, my international move came with a new career and a new way of working. I love my “home office” (one of the many Swiss-adopted terms that Brits don’t actually use)....
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- Type: Article
- Author: Maya Lach-Aidelbaum
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
How not to get taken advantage of in a city that's in the midst of a housing crisis. I didn’t realize how lucky I was when I first came to Munich. When I found out I had been accepted in state-subsidized student housing a few weeks before arriving, I...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Maya Lach-Aidelbaum
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Munich is no Berlin, but alternative culture still thrives here. To be perfectly honest, studying abroad in Munich was not my first choice. Berlin was. I was enamoured with the idea of inhabiting the capital of Germany—a chaotic metropole known for its...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Katrina Keegan
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
My culture shock took so long, I didn’t notice that it was happening. I used to think I was immune culture shock. I was 16 when I went abroad for the first time to participate in a summer Russian language program. That was when I learned about the...
